Brighton Beach Memoirs
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Jean Franks
23 September – 3 October 1998
- Lesley Robins and Keith King as Kate and Jack Jerome
- Michael Bate as Eugene Jerome
Set not in the Brighton with which most of us are familiar, but Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York in 1937 at the home of Eugene Jerome, a precocious 15 year-old, whose burning ambition to be a writer involves him in committing all the happenings of his household to his ‘memoirs’.
Cast
Eugene Jerome – Michael Bate
Blanche Morton – Gaynor Fisher
Kate Jerome – Lesley Robins
Laurie Morton – Nichola Butler
Nora Morton – Michelle Pearl
Stanley Jerome – Matt Hawes
Jacob ‘Jack’ Jerome – Keith King
Crew
Set Designer and Stage Manager – Elizabeth Hunt
Set Construction by – Roger Hodge, BBM Crew
Assistant Stage Manager – Margaret Baird
Lighting by – Ian Humphreys, Simon Dinsmore
Sound by – Tom Bramall
Properties by – Janet Pearce, Emma Pearce, Sue Newman, Janet Hodge
Costumes by – Carol Bramall, Christine Angell