Waving

1988

On the Patio of a Spanish Beach Bar, a mother and daughter sit. The sea and day stretch before them, they watch and wait… Under a different umbrella two wives watch their husbands take their morning swim. The women are fifty. “Well Joan Collins is fifty… but then, that’s not the same sort of fifty…”. As they watch their men forging further and further out to sea – a seed grows, and its blossoming is dangerous.

Written by Carol Bunyan
Co-production with Sheffield Crucible Theatre.

Cast

Vivienne Burgess: Mother
Pauline Jefferson: Enid
Pamela Lane: Joyce
Jane Lowe: Daughter

Production Team

Angela Langfield: Director
Claudia Mayer: Designer
Geoff Mersereau: Lighting Designer
Christine Thornhill: Production Manager
Janet Cantrill: Lighting Technician
Sandy Bailey: Administration
Rose Sharp: Administration
Jo Angell: Graphics

Places and dates

Crucible Theatre Studio, Sheffield: 03/02/1988 - 14/02/1988
Sherman Theatre, Cardiff: 16/02/1988 - 20/02/1988
York Art Centre: 26/02/1988 - 27/02/1988
Warwick Arts Centre: 03/03/1988 - 05/03/1988
Hexagon Theatre, Reading: 07/03/1988 - 08/03/1988
Northampton Arts Centre: 11/03/1988 - 12/03/1988
Harlow Playhouse: 18/03/1988 - 19/03/1988
Darlington Arts Centre: 22/03/1988 - 23/03/1988
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: 28/03/1988 - 02/04/1988
BAC Battersea Arts Centre, London: 06/04/1988 - 24/04/1988

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‘Waving is a well crafted, multi-layered comedy which carries a lot of pain and anger underneath its surface gloss of belly laughter.’
Bolton Evening News Feb 1988

‘Touching and funny.’
Spare Rib May 1988