WITTY ROMANTIC COMEDY SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR TO COMPLETE ITS TOUR AT NEW VIC THEATRE THIS APRIL

24th March 2022

London Classic Theatre make a welcome return to the New Vic this April with classic romantic comedy Same Time, Next Year.

A bittersweet, nostalgic and funny portrait of two likeable protagonists who find themselves in the most unusual of long-term relationships, Same Time, Next Year will complete its national tour at the New Vic from Tuesday 12 to Saturday 16 April.

After a chance encounter in a Californian hotel that leads to a passionate one-night stand, George and Doris, both married to other people, promise to meet 12 months later, beginning a romantic love affair that lasts 25 years.

The play, written by Bernard Slade, charts their lives through the ups and downs of parenthood, career highs and lows as well as the shifting fashions and morals of the passing decades.

Originally produced on Broadway in 1975, Same Time, Next Year still maintains its resonance with audiences and this latest production from London Classic Theatre directed by Michael Cabot stars Kieran Buckeridge (The Prince and the Pauper, The Wind in the Willows, New Vic) and Sarah Kempton (Sense and Sensibility, Bold Girls, York Theatre Royal).

London Classic Theatre Artistic Director Michael Cabot said: “Same Time, Next Year is a charming, nostalgic romantic comedy from the 1970s, with a witty, engaging script. One of the big challenges of this play is the timeframe, which runs from 1951 to 1975, and convincingly showing the ever-changing fashions and styles as the years go by. Designer Bek Palmer has been ingenious in bringing these very different decades to life.”

Same Time, Next Year will take to the stage at the New Vic from Tuesday 12 to Saturday 16 April 2022. For more information and to book visit newvictheatre.org.uk.