Basil and Beattie
By Linda Brogan
Year staged: 2004
Opening night: 22/04/2004
Theatre Company: Royal Exchange Theatre; 1976-
Staged in: Royal Exchange Theatre
Cast Size: 5
Synopsis
Basil and Beattie are finding the golden years of their lives somewhat tarnished, locked together with only physical infirmity and mental deterioration for company. Their presumably once-sparky relationship has become bitter and fractious. Skeletons rattle in cupboards, and ghosts haunt their heads and their home, while fear of the future, despair with the present and disappointment in the past close in on their diminishing world.
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Original Cast
Wyllie Longmore
Cast
Eileen O'Brien
Cast
Donna Alexander
Cast
Denise Orita
Cast
Production Team
Mark Distin
Lighting Designer
Sarah Frankcom
Director
Angela Simpson
Designer
Robert Donnelly-Jackson
Sound
Wyllie Longmore
Dialect Coach