The Holly and The Ivy
TV celebrity cast in….
The Holly and the Ivy
Interviews available on request
The Lowry, Mon 16 – Sat 21 February 2009
Press Night: Mon 16 February, 7pm
Family tensions come to boiling point next month at The Lowry in Wynyard Browne's The Holly and The Ivy.
This moving drama stars Welsh-born Philip Madoc and TV favourites Tom Butcher (The Bill / Doctors), Zoie Kennedy (The Royal) & Corrinne Wicks (Doctors).
Set in a Norfolk vicarage on Christmas Eve 1947, the vicar’s family gather for the festive season. Peace and goodwill radiates from the warm-hearted elderly vicar, cared for by his young daughter. But with the arrival of two irritable aunts and an errant daughter the emotional veneer is skilfully peeled away. As skeletons tumble from closets and stones are turned over, family members are forced to confront their regrets and secret anxieties. Even the lovable vicar is not immune to the stresses and strains of a normal family life.
Award-winning Middle Ground Theatre Company are now in their tenth year.Their first national tour of museums and art galleries was in Scotland and since then they have performed in a wealth of unusual venues from castles and hotel lounges, to the remote communities of Shetland, Orkney, Barra, Benbecula, Islay, Arran, Harris, Jura, Mull and Lewis.
Posted on Wednesday, 21 January 2009 under Press Theatre Press