A Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Salisbury Playhouse and New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich production
A smash-hit comedy about preparations for a family wedding.
Rachel and Scott are getting married. They’re also buying a house together. But when the house price goes up, their plans for a dream wedding have to be downsized.
Rachel’s mother, however, has other ideas. What if the family could join forces and make it a wedding to be proud of? With a marquee in the back garden, the pub band and two fully-functioning portable loos, surely the day will pass without a hitch?
This laugh-out-loud comedy about preparations for a family wedding was a huge hit when it premiered at Salisbury Playhouse in 2014. Now you have a chance to enjoy one of the biggest new comedies in years. Features a live wedding band.
Chris Chibnall is the creator of ITV’s Broadchurch and from 2018 will be Head Writer and Executive Producer of BBC TV’s Doctor Who.
★★★★ ‘A really raucous comedy that delivers on its title’ – Mail on Sunday
★★★★ ‘Killingly Funny’ – Daily Mail
★★★★ ‘Raucous comedy’ – The Stage
‘There’s plenty to keep the audience in stitches’ – The Reviews Hub
Scripts will be available for purchase at the bar throughout the run.
Age guidance: 12+
Contains some strong language.
Mon, Tue & Wed | 7.30pm || Thu, Fri & Sat | 8pm
Mon - Thu Eve, & Matinees | £18.00 | £22.50 | £26
concessions and discounts available
Fri & Sat eve | £21.50 | £26 | £29
Friday group discount available
145 minutes (including interval)
20 minutes
Main House
Elisabeth Hopper
Rachel
THEATRE INCLUDES: King John (Rose Theatre), Heather Gardner (Birmingham Rep) The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Chichester/Theatre Royal Haymarket), Texas Taxman (Arcola Theatre) and Plain Jane (Manchester Royal Exchange).
TELEVISION INCLUDE: Home Fires I & II, Doctor Who, Agatha Raisin, Endeavour II, Revanche, Drifters, Cuckoo, Valentines Kiss, Doctors, The Smoke and Black Mirror.
FILM INCLUDES: The Beat Beneath My Feet.
Nav Sidhu
Scott
TRAINING East 15 Acting School.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Arabian Nights, The Jew of Malta, Loves Sacrifice and Volpone (The Royal Shakespeare Company), The Empire, Pigeons, Talk Show (Royal Court) and History Boys (Sheffield Crucible).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Silent Witness, Spooks, Doctors, Edge of Heaven, The Kumar’s, Man Down, Run, Random, Cucumber and Coming Up.
FILM INCLUDES: Gangs of Tooting Broadway, I Anna, The Patel and How I Live Now.
Julia Hills
Liz
TRAINING Bristol University
THEATRE Calendar Girls (Chichester, tour & West End), The Cherry Orchard (Tobacco Factory Bristol & The Rose Kingston), Entertaining Mr Sloane (Leicester Curve), The Glass Menagerie (Cheltenham Everyman), Beside Herself (Royal Court), Pygmalion (Manchester Royal Exchange), Our Friends In The North (RSC), Flying Under Bridges (Watford Palace), The Hired Man (Leicester Haymarket & West End), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Savoy Theatre), Larkin With Women (Belgrade Coventry), Stepping Out (New Vic), Hamlet (Stf Tour), The Borrowers (Nuffield Theatre Southampton) and The School For Scandal (Tobacco Factory Bristol).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: 2 Point 4 Children, Who Dares Wins, Boomers, Law and Order UK, Dad, Outnumbered and Ladies in Charge.
FILM INCLUDES: Homeground
RADIO INCLUDES: The Archers, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Julie and the Prince
Derek Frood
Mel
THEATRE INCLUDES: Around The World In 80 Days (The Brewhouse Theatre), Dark Land Light House (Bristol Old Vic) A Christmas Carol (The Northcott Theatre), Hot Air (The Tobacco Factory), I Believe In Unicorns (National & International tour), The Talisman (The Drum, Plymouth), Pricked (The Assembly Rooms/National tour), Hammer & Tongs and The Snow Queen (National tour) and Why The Whales Came (The Harold Pinter Theatre).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Poldark and The White Princess.
FILM INCLUDES: Finding Clive and Access All Areas.
RADIO INCLUDES: The Churlston Cyclist.
AUDIO INCLUDES: The Old Jewish Cemetery and Damnation Alley (Ripple), A Word In Your Ear (Theatre Royal, Plymouth).
Video Games: Fable:Legends (Microsoft/Lionhead Studios).
Elizabeth Cadwallader
Alison
TRAINING Elizabeth studied clown and Le Jeu with Philippe Gaulier in Paris, after initially training at The Bridge Theatre Academy.
THEATRE INCLUDES: The Humans (lead role - Festival D’Avignon/LLC Rotterdam/BAM New York), Ben Hur (Watermill), The Taming of The Shrew (RSC), The Killing Of Sister George (Arts Theatre West End), Rafta, Rafta (Bolton Octagon), Sixteen Up (Unicorn Theatre), Saturday Night (White Bear), Dirty Kissing (Box Clever), Booty Call (Nottingham Playhouse/Big Creative), Badge of Honour (Oval House Theatre), The Verdict (Big Foot Theatre Co.), 13 Grimm Tales (Cockpit Theatre), Closer (Catford Theatre).
TELEVISION AND FILM INCLUDES: Game Of Thrones , Holby City - as recurring character Alison Cannon, Doctors - as recurring character Sarah Millen, Radio On, Love Hurts, Green Shoots and the TV pilot Nina and Lilly’s Nothing On Show, which she co wrote and performed.
Elizabeth is a heavy weight Monologue Slam champion and has made several appearances as both performer and writer with London Bites in their showcase seasons.
As a trained dancer in various disciplines including contemporary, Hip-Hop, Irish and Jamaican Street, Elizabeth has appeared with several recognised dance companies including Unleashed and Dance X Change.
Ben Callon
Andy
TRAINING: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
THEATRE INCLUDES: Ferment (Bristol Old Vic), Wounded (Birmingham Rep), Spokesong (Finborough Theatre), Eliza and The Wild Swans (Exeter Bike Shed), Across The Dark Water (The Point Eastleigh) and A Christmas Carol (Pegasus Oxford).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Doc Martin and Poldark.
RADIO INCLUDES: Homefront.
Kieran Hill
Graeme
TRAINING: Birmingham School of Acting
SALISBURY: Design for Living.
THEATRE INCLUDES: The History Cycle and King Lear (RSC), Scapino, The Government Inspector, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Dr. Faustus (Chichester Festival Theatre), Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Glass Menagerie, Of Mice and Men, Romeo & Juliet, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Streetcar Named Desire and Comedians (Bolton Octagon), Death of a Salesman (York Theatre Royal), King Lear (Glasgow Citizens Theatre), Sunday in the Park with George (Menier Chocolate Factory), Longitude (Greenwich Theatre), The Shepherd's Life (Theatre By the Lake) and To Dream Again (Theatre Clwyd).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Holby City and Drifters.
FILM INCLUDES: Fulltime and Hold on Me.
RADIO INCLUDES: 4 series of No Commitments.
Lloyd Gorman
Mike
TRAINING: Rose Bruford College
SALISBURY: Worst Wedding Ever 2014
THEATRE: Sunny Afternoon (Harold Pinter Theatre, West End); Nicobobinus (LOST Theatre/UK tour), Saturday Night (Arts Theatre, West End), Our House (New Wolsey Theatre/UK tour), The Story Giant (Shanty Theatre Company); Faust (Greenwich Theatre); Anyone Can Whistle (Jermyn Street), Pinocchio (Tolmen Centre), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Sweeney Todd, Romeo and Juliet, David Copperfield, White Nights, The Nose and Harmless (Octagon Theatre, Bolton), Fewer Emergencies (Deptford Albany), Grimethorpe Race (Arcola) and Treasure Island (UK tour).
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Tittybangbang (BBC)
OTHER : Without a Dowry (workshop – National Theatre).
Dan Smith
Brian
TRAINING: Central School of Speech and Drama.
THEATRE INCLUDES: Carnaby Street the Musical and Carnaby Street the Concert Tour (UK tour), Rope, Communicating Doors, Little Shop of Horrors and Arsenic and Old Lace (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Relatively Speaking (Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour), Bubbles (Watermill and UK tour), A Christmas Carol (Trafalgar Studios), Cinderella and Aladdin (Loughborough Town Hall), Dick Whittington, Cinderella,Jack and the Beanstalk and Aladdin (Maltings Theatre, Berwick-upon-Tweed) and Thursford Christmas Spectacular.
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Two series of Popstar to Operastar.
Dan is currently the musical supervisor of Spamalot at the English Theatre Frankfurt.
OTHER WORK AS A MUSICAL DIRECTOR INCLUDES: Carnaby Street the Musical, Assassins and Saturday Night (London College of Music), Fame, Beauty and the Beast and Our House (Watersmeet) and a number of pantomimes.
Chris Talman
Colin
TRAINING Guildford School of Acting
SALISBURY: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Worst Wedding Ever, A Man of No Importance, Rosencrance and Guildenstern are Dead, Cabaret and Dinner on Broadway.
THEATRE The Macbeth Curse. Barnum, Pirates of Penzance(west end) Jesus Christ Superstar, Cider with Rosie, Good Golly Miss Molly, Little Red Riding hood, Hot Stuff, Scrooge, The Boyfriend, Macbeth, Peter Pan, The Pony Drift, Doc Faust, A Christmas Carol Double Trouble, Claustrophobia, To the Marrow, Under the Greenwood Tree, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Firework Makers Daughter
TELEVISION INCLUDES: 999, Casualty, Tom Jones, Jack and Jeremys Real Lives, Live
Director | Gareth Machin |
Designer | James Button |
Lighting | Peter Hunter |
Sound | Mark Noble |
Video Designer | Louise Rhoades-Brown |
Musical Supervisor | Kate Edgar |
Fight Director | Paul Benzing |
Voice and Dialect Coach | Beatrice Brooke |
Casting Assistants | Kirsty Airlie and Vicky Laker |