by Charlotte Jones.
A comedy about failed hopes, deception, indecision and bee-keeping.
Astrophysicist Felix Humble returns home from his research post in Cambridge for his father’s funeral. It’s summertime and living in the Humble home is not easy. The bees are not buzzing. His mother can’t smell the roses, Felix’s cricket whites need a good wash and his prep school stammer has returned with him. He discovers that his mother Flora has a lover, who is soon to become her new husband. George Pye is brash and pompous; he is also the father of Rosie, the girl Felix had a fling with seven years ago…
Step into the dysfunctional world of the Humbles and the Pyes, where highbrow collides with lowbrow. Where the Big Bang Theory meets Jeremy Kyle. A world of nose jobs, mobile funerary urns, Quantum Mechanics… and bees.
Humble Boy won the Critics’ Circle Best New Play Award and the People’s Choice Best New Play Award in 2002.
“Rich, original, intelligent, funny and touching. I can’t recommend this lovely play too highly.” Daily Telegraph.
“York Settlement Community Players, the original trendsetters among York’s rising tide of adventurous community theatre companies.” (Charles Hutchinson, The Press, March 2013)
Thursday 28th November – Sunday 1st December
Evenings: Thursday to Saturday – 7.30pm
Matinees: Saturday and Sunday – 2.00pm
Tickets: Evenings: £10 / Matinees: £8
Box Office: 01904 613000 or book online
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