Firth Takes Safari to Wilds of West End???
Date: 29 May 2002
Tim Firth's latest play,
The Safari Party, which received its world premiere at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre last month, looks likely to make its way south to London. A West End transfer for the comedy about travelling dinner party guests in deepest Cheshire is currently on the cards for early 2003. Firth is best known to theatregoers for his 1993 hit comedy
Neville's Island, which also premiered in Scarborough before transferring to the West End, where it was nominated for four Olivier Awards. He has also written the book for the upcoming Madness musical,
Our House, which opens at the West End's Cambridge Theatre this autumn. At Scarborough,
The Safari Party was directed by SJT artistic director
Alan Ayckbourn.
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