Two River Theater presents Alan Ayckbourn’s “My Wonderful Day”

RED BANK, NJ – Two River Theater Company will conclude the 2011-2012 season with Alan Ayckbourn’s My Wonderful Day, directed by Nicholas Martin. Performances will begin on Tuesday, May 15 and continue through Sunday, June 3 in Two River’s Rechnitz Theater, 21 Bridge Avenue.

About My Wonderful Day

In My Wonderful Day, a comedy about the British middle class, Ayckbourn looks at the adult world-with all of its foibles, and failed hopes and dreams-through the eyes of a child. Winnie Barnstairs, a nearly nine-year old Anglo-Caribbean girl from south London, has a school assignment to write about her day. She is spending it with her mother, a house cleaner who works for a minor television celebrity. Instructed to get on with her homework, Winnie observes and records everything happening around her. Even as the day turns into an increasingly frenetic domestic farce of marital infidelity, volcanic egos, and comic misunderstandings.

Photo Credit: T. Charles Erickson

The company includes

• Alison Cimmet (Tiffany)
• Kimberly Hébert Gregory (Laverne)
• Susan Heyward (Winnie)
• Kevin Isola (Josh)
• Danielle Skraastad (Paula
• Marc Vietor (Kevin).
• Alan Ayckbourn is an Olivier, Tony and Molière Award-winning playwright who has written 76 plays.

My Wonderful Day premiered in 2009, the year of both the 50th anniversary of his first play, The Square Cat, and his 70th birthday. He led the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough as Artistic Director from 1972 to 2009, premiering most of his work there and continuing to debut new productions at the venue.

His plays have been translated into 35 languages, won numerous awards nationally and internationally, and have been performed worldwide on stage and television.

In 2009, Matthew Warchus’ in-the-round production of The Norman Conquests, first seen at the Old Vic, transferred to Broadway, earning a Tony for Best Revival of a Play.

In recent years, he has been inducted into the

• American Theatre Hall of Fame
• Received the UK’s 2010 Critics’ Circle Award for Services to the Arts
• Became the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards.
• He was knighted in 1997 for services to the theater.

Tickets

Tickets are available from 732.345.1400 or www.trtc.org. Single ticket prices start at $37. Two River Theater recognizes Monmouth University as the Production Sponsor of My Wonderful Day for the 2011-2012 Season.