Relatively Speaking starring Felicity Kendal and Kara Tointon to transfer to the Wyndham's Theatre May 2013

The Theatre Royal Bath's recent revival of Alan Ayckbourn's breakthrough hit Relatively Speaking, starring Felicity Kendal and Kara Tointon, will transfer to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre next May.

Beautifully crafted, wonderfully funny and charmingly English, the play marked Ayckbourn’s breakthrough West End hit and this production will be its first West End revival since it played at the Duke of York’s Theatre in 1967, when the critics hailed the arrival of a great new comic talent.

Greg only met Ginny a month ago but has already made up his mind that she’s the girl for him. When she tells him that she’s going to visit her parents, he decides this is the moment to ask her father for his daughter’s hand. Discovering a scribbled address, he follows her to Buckinghamshire where he finds Philip and Sheila Enjoying a peaceful Sunday morning breakfast in the garden. The only thing is... they’re not Ginny’s parents.

Felicity Kendal shot to fame in BBC television’s ‘The Good Life’. This will be the first time she has starred in an Alan Ayckbourn play since the West End premiere of The Norman Conquests in 1973.

Jonathan Coy’s television credits include ‘Rumpole’, ‘Hornblower’, ‘Brideshead Revisited’, ‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘Foyle's War’. On stage he has starred in Nicholas Nickleby, Donkey’s Years and the 2011 West End production of Much Ado About Nothing, with David Tennant.

Kara Tointon was recently on the West End stage in Pygmalion (alongside Rupert Everett) and Absent Friends. Her television credits include ‘Dinotopia’, ‘Jonathan Creek’, ‘Bedlam’, ‘The Bill’, ‘EastEnders’, ‘Dream Team’ and ‘Harry and Cosh’.

Max Bennett’s theatre credits include Posh (Royal Court at Duke of York's), In Basildon (Royal Court), Luise Miller (Donmar Warehouse), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Headlong), Fabrication [Affabulazione] (The Print Room), Danton's Death (National Theatre), Mrs Warren's Profession (Comedy Theatre), Waste (Almeida), Romeo and Juliet (Theatre of Memory at Middle Temple Hall), Thyestes (BAC) and Finisterre (Theatre503). Films include ‘Anna Karenina’, ‘The Sweeney’, ‘The Numbers Station’, ‘The Duchess’ and ‘99 Francs’.

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