Honeymoon Suite
Regional premiere - Spring 2008

Public and press comments so far....

"What an enjoyable performance with lots of humour! I particularly thought Marc Pickering was an excellent actor who played his part extremely well." Amanda Brown, audience member

" There is so much to enjoy in Bean's incendiary, dark comedy: his savage and earthily comic Eddie, surprises; his resonant imagery...his bitter-sweet portraits of Hull and Brid past and present; and the way that one question asked by a younger Eddie may be answered in the next sentence by an older wife.

Tudor Price's casting is tremendous: the Hull-born trio of Pickering, Barrass and North look and move alike, mirroring restless mannerisms, while Rowland, Scholfield and Sawle are rightly more contrasting in the flowering of Irene from demure rose, through agitated and unfulfilled play-away wife to political vixen. A suite success indeed."
York & County Press, 8.03.08

"a compelling story, extremely funny throughout...an enjoyable tale very cleverley produced" Hull Daily Mail, 5.03.08

"What a fantastically well written and casted play! Myself and my partner came away from the theatre feeling a mixture of emotions; it is only something so brilliant and thought-provoking can do that to me.

I've seen many plays at Hull Truck and I have to say this one ranks as the best one yet, alongside Our House; which I shall be returning to see when it shows again later in the year. Well done all round!"
Audience members Mark Whittles and Victoria Yates, 8.03.08

" A really enjoyable and cleverly written play with superb acting. A must see!" Louise, audience member, 29.02.08

"A cleverly written play by Richard Bean (who incidentally went to school with my husband!) that when reading the preview I thought might be complicated to follow and I wondered how it would work. But no, despite three couples being on the stage at the same time with dialogue swapping back and forth over the decades, it was very enjoyable and easy to sit, relax and be taken back over the years.

I thought the actors had been carefully chosen for their parts and Marc Pickering could very easily have been a younger version of Martin Barrass. I have seen Annie Sawle in other plays and she always gives 100%."
Maureen Colley of ARCO Ltd, in the audience 28.02.08