CYRANO DE BERGERAC

By Jez Butterworth

Directed by Alison Reid

Performed by Second Year IAB Acting Students

Synopsis

Jez Butterworth's play The Hills of California is a drama about lost dreams and trampled hopes, tracing the lives of four sisters whose mother is ambitious for them to become musical stars in the mould of the Andrews Sisters.

The play is set in a guest house on the outskirts of Blackpool, an English seaside resort. It is the summer of 1976, the driest in two hundred years. In the sweltering backstreets, far from the choc-ices and donkey rides, the Webb Sisters are returning to their mother Veronica's run-down guest house, as she lies dying upstairs. Back in the late spring of 1955, Veronica was busy coaching them to become musical stars, but her ambition for them was to have unexpected and terrible consequences.

The Hills of California was first produced by Sonia Friedman Productions and Neal Street Productions and premiered at the Harold Pinter Theatre in Londons West End on 27 January 2024.

Run Time: 2 hours approximately

Content Warnings & Cautions:

Contains references to sexual abuse, cancer and death.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

* Photography and recording of this performance is not permitted due to copyright regulations.

* Please turn off your mobile phones. Mobile use is not permitted once the performance begins

* Entry Policy: No entry once the show begins

* Performance in English