Priestley’s When We Are Married Set for West End Run

JB Priestley’s comedy When We Are Married is heading to the West End this fall. The timeless play about class and hypocrisy will begin performances at the Garrick Theatre on October 19, 2010, directed by Christopher Luscombe.

Set in 1908 in Clecklewyke in the heart of Northern England, When We Are Married tells the story of three well-to-do West Yorkshire couples—the Parkers, Soppitts and Helliwells—married on the same day, at the same church and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony. Disaster strikes with the shocking revelation that the vicar who married them wasn’t actually licensed and these pillars of the church and community aren’t as respectably married as they thought they were.

Featured in the cast of When We Are Married will be Olivier Award winner Maureen Lipman, Olivier nominee Rosemary Ashe, Lynda Baron, Susie Blake, Michele Dotrice, David Horovitch, Roy Hudd, Sam Kelly and Simon Rouse. The production will feature designs by Simon Higlett, lighting design by Mark Henderson and sound design by Jason Barnes.

When We Are Married is being produced by Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer for Nimax Theatres and Duncan C. Weldon and Paul Elliot in association with Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.