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• May 20th 2009 8:00 pm to May 23rd 2009 10:15 pm

Event Details

• Type: Production
• Group: Ruislip Dramatic Society

Address

• Address:
  
  Compass Theatre, Glebe Avenue, Ickenham, Middlesex. UB10 8PD.

Contact Details

• Contact:: 01895 675343 or 01895 673200. See http://www.ruislipdramatic.org for further details.

Extra Information

• Other Information: 20-23 May 2009, 8.00pm. Ruislip Dramatic Society presents Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett.First meet the Wicksteed family from Hove, a seemingly respectable doctor and his wife along with their hypochondriac son. Next add a young lady patient who the doctor takes a fancy to, but who in turn takes an interest in his son, and the doctor’s sister who is more concerned about her flat chest than her courtship with the limp but good-natured vicar, Canon Throbbing. Finally stir this with the President of the British Medical Association and an assortment of characters which include a “bust” fitter salesman from Leatherhead and you are left with this wickedly funny play from the talented Alan Bennett.Bennett is now regarded by many as a national treasure, and the premier English dramatist of his generation. He has written extensively for the stage, with his greatest success being The Madness of George III (1991) which he later adapted for film. His most recent success was with his play The History Boys (2004) which won three Olivier Awards, whilst Bennett himself won a further special award for Outstanding Contribution to the British Theatre.Habeas Corpus itself shows the playwright at his best, with a skilful combination of satire and farce which has hilarious results. So why not come aboard this satirical merry-go-round driven by the permissive society, to find out why according to Dr. Wicksteed: “he whose lust lasts, lasts longest”…