This production began performances on 26th January and closed on 14th April 2012.
★★★★
The Telegraph
When Colin loses his fiancée, his married friends invite him round for comfort over tea and sandwiches. As the tea starts to pour, it's clear that trouble is brewing with a wickedly funny blend of jealousy, infidelity and barely concealed loathing. Tension starts to boil and maybe Colin isn’t the one who needs help… with friends like these, who needs enemies?
★★★★
Evening Standard
Absent Friends premiered in 1974 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre and received its London premiere a year later at the Garrick Theatre. Sonia Friedman Productions has previously produced Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests which, following its sell-out run at the Old Vic, transferred triumphantly to Broadway in 2009.
Sonia Friedman Productions, Robert G. Barnter & Norman Tulchin, Rupert Gavin and Douglas G. Smith present “ABSENT FRIENDS” by Alan Ayckbourn.
★★★★
The Times
CAST
REEXE SHEARSMITH – Colin
KATHERINE PARKINSON – Diana
KARA TOINTON – Evelyn
DAVID ARMAND – John
ELIZABETH BERRINGTON – Marge
STEFFAN RHODRI – Paul
CREATIVES
JEREMY HERRIN – Director
TOM SCUTT – Designer
PETER MUMFORD – Lighting Designer
IAN DICKINSON – Sound Designer