Now Is Good
Retired builder Ray is getting to the age when falling down has become ‘having a fall’. His son decides it’s time to move him somewhere nearer to the middle of town. In renovating an old bank they unintentionally create a space where the very old and very young of the town accidentally meet. When these different generations start sharing songs, that’s when the time travel starts as guys in their eighties are suddenly transported back to times in their lives they thought gone for ever. Ray sets out to build a new home but ultimately creates a castle that defeats loneliness.
CAST
Jeff Rawle
Michele Dotrice
Maxwell Hutcheon
Chris Hannon
Alyce Liburd
Elizabeth Counsell
Nominated Best Musical UK Theatre Awards
Chester Storyhouse
Book, Music & Lyrics by Tim Firth
Directed by Joyce Branagh
MD & Orchestrations by George Francis