A fast and funny contemporary drama can be seen on stage in Potters Bar.

Potters Bar Theatre Company’s latest production is the comedy 'Jumpy' by April De Angelis.

It will be performed at the Wyllyotts Studio in the Wyllyotts Theatre, Potters Bar, from Wednesday, February 22 to Saturday, February 25, 2023.

Jumpy is written by one of our most prolific and popular female playwrights, April De Angelis. First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 2011, the play went on to have a very successful West End transfer, where it was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play.

The drama centres around the character of Hilary, who is approaching middle-age and is having to deal with an extremely feisty and confrontational teenage daughter, a husband who appears to be losing interest in her, and a best friend who warns her that she is getting boring!

Welwyn Hatfield Times: Tate Pollington as Cam and Catherine Little as Hilary in Jumpy.Tate Pollington as Cam and Catherine Little as Hilary in Jumpy. (Image: Michelle Williams)

Hilary fears that her job, working in an educational support unit, is under threat and worries that she is starting to become invisible and unheard.

As her world starts to implode, she learns to confront some of her darkest fears and by the end of the play reaches a place of hope and self-acceptance.

Director Nick Vause writes: “This is a sharp and very amusing comedy about modern life.

“It’s about parents dealing with teenagers; about middle-aged couples dealing with each other and about friends falling out and coming back together again.

 

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“It deals with mobile phones, pregnancy scares, A-levels, cuts to services – in fact, the whole of modern life is there.

“As one of the critics writing of the original production said, it ‘Hits a thousand nerves and makes the audience giggle, gasp and groan in painful recognition’."

The play has a cast of nine and is made up of both familiar faces from past productions and a number of very talented new PBTC members.

The performances will take place in a Studio space at the Wyllyotts Theatre - in the Alexander Wilding Room - with around 60 seats available for each performance.

Tickets can be booked via the Wyllyotts Theatre box office on 01707 645005 or the website wyllyottstheatre.co.uk

 

                                                                                                                                

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