Name: The Distance, Orange Tree Theatre
Start: 2015-11-26
End: 2015-12-19
Location: Orange Tree Theatre

Orange Tree Theatre: The Distance returns for 2015

After impressing critics for a sold out run in 2014, Deborah Bruce's play The Distance returns to Richmond's The Orange Tree Theatre for another run this autumn.
Exploring the strains that friendships suffer, the play follows Bea as she returns home after a five year absence to find old friends that are struggling to accept her new choices. Sharp, funny and pacy, Deborah Bruce's writing makes this relationship drama feel vivid and resonant.
Taking the directorial reins is Charlotte Gwinner, a regular feature of regional and fringe theatre and winner of the 2013 Quercus Award. The original production was given some star-power by Friends and Cold Feet actor Helen Baxendale. But this re-run will feature a mostly new cast, which is yet to be announced.

What	The Distance, Orange Tree Theatre
Where	Orange Tree Theatre, 1 Clarence Street , Richmond, Surrey, TW9 2SA \| MAP
Nearest tube	Richmond (underground)
When	26 Nov 15 – 19 Dec 15, 7:30 PM – 9:40 PM
Price	£10-£20
Website	Click here to book via the Orange Tree website

What the critics say

THE GUARDIAN

"Helen Baxendale catches perfectly Bea’s sense of numbed isolation, Clare Lawrence-Moody is a model of well-meaning control-freakery as Kate and Emma Beattie is very amusing as the neurotic, semi-stoned Alex. It’s also a sign of Bruce’s sophistication that the men in the play, far from being mere stooges, are as varied and vividly drawn as the agonised women."

Practical

ORANGE TREE THEATRE

The Orange Tree Theatre is a lovely local theatre venue in Richmond. With an ethos of making live drama widely accessible, it exclusively presents its own productions, and specialises in staging new plays and neglected classics. The intimate 172 theatre ensures proximity to the stage action. Turn up early if you want to bag front row, though; seats are unreserved.

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