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