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Main House Stephen Boxer, Emma Fielding, Tara Fitzgerald

Suite in Three Keys - A Song at Twilight

  • 9 - 13 July
  • Part of a Noël Coward Triple Bill
Suite in Three Keys - A Song at Twilight

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A Song at Twilight 
Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 7.30pm Saturday 2.30pm 

Shadows of the Evening / Come Into The Garden, Maud  

Wednesday 2.30pm Thursday & Saturday 7.30pm

Tue 09 — Sat 13 Jul

“I don’t wish to sound fussy, but I really don’t care to discuss false teeth during dinner.” 

Orange Tree Theatre Artistic Director Tom Littler directs Stephen Boxer, Emma Fielding and Tara Fitzgerald in a rediscovery of Coward’s trilogy.

In a luxury Swiss hotel suite in the 1960’s, three separate stories unfold: 

A Song at Twilight is a full-length play about a famous elderly writer, reputedly based on Somerset Maugham, who faces blackmail at the hands of an ex-lover threatening to expose his secret past.  

Shadows of the Evening and Come into the Garden, Maud form a perfect double-bill set in the same hotel suite. Shadows of the Evening explores the intricacies of a late-life love triangle, and Come into the Garden, Maud is a fizzing comedy about the misunderstandings between Americans and Europeans abroad. 

Marking the 50th anniversary of Noël Coward’s death and the 125th of his birth, this is the first complete revival of Suite in Three Keys for a generation.

Suite in Three Keys cast

Tom Littler is the award-winning Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre, following an acclaimed tenure as Artistic Director of London’s Jermyn Street Theatre. His productions of She Stoops to Conquer and The Circle, recently seen at the Theatre Royal Bath starring Jane Asher, were the best-selling shows in Orange Tree history. His career began at Theatre Royal Bath where he was Associate Director of the Peter Hall Company. 

“A Song at Twilight is a moving coda to Coward’s career” Michael Billington, The Guardian 

“A giant of the theatre” Daily Telegraph on Noël Coward

SUITE IN THREE KEYS

Tuesday 9 - Saturday 13 July

A Song at Twilight 

Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 7.30pm Saturday 2.30pm 

Shadows of the Evening / Come Into The Garden, Maud 

Wednesday 2.30pm Thursday & Saturday 7.30pm

Tickets from £30

Book for both shows and save 10%

A booking fee of £2.50 per ticket applies

Stephen Boxer plays Hugo Latymer, George Hilgay and Verner Conklin. His theatre credits include The Box of Delights (RSC), A Splinter of Ice (Jermyn Street Theatre), Macbeth, Stories, King Lear, The Holy Rosenbergs, Aristocrats, Power (National Theatre), Raising Martha (Park Theatre), The Inn at Lydda (Shakespeare’s Globe), Written on the Heart (Duchess Theatre), The Great Highway (Gate Theatre), A Chaste Maid (Almeida), Titus Andronicus, The Heresy of Love, Written on the Heart, The Taming of the Shrew and The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbs (RSC). His television credits include The Crown (as Denis Thatcher), Garrow’s Law and Doctors (as series regular Dr Joe Fenton); and for film, The Iron Lady, The Guard of Auschwitz, Red Joan, Teen Spirit and Postcards from London.

Emma Fielding plays (Hilde, Anne and Anna-Mary). Her theatre credits include A Museum in Baghdad (RSC), Mary’s Babies (Jermyn Street Theatre), A Woman of No Importance (Vaudeville Theatre), Terror (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (RSC), In the Republic of Happiness, Spinning into Butter (Royal Court Theatre), The King’s Speech (Wyndham’s Theatre, UK tour), Playing with Fire, Look Back in Anger, Arcadia (National Theatre), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Duke of York’s), Macbeth, Heartbreak House, 1953, School for Wives (Almeida), Private Lives (Noel Coward Theatre, Richard Rodgers Theatre). Her television credits include Van Der Valk, Close to the Enemy, Cranford; and for film, Fast Girls, Twenty8K, The Other Man, Discovery of Heaven, Pandemonium and The Scarlet Tunic.

Tara Fitzgerald plays Carlotta, Linda and Maud. She returns to the Orange Tree, having previously appeared in Duet for One. Her other theatre credits include The Secret Theatre (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), Broken Glass (Kiln Theatre), A Doll’s House (Donmar Warehouse), And then there were none (Gielgud Theatre), Antigone (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, The Old Vic) and Hamlet (Almeida, Belasco Theater). Her television credits include Requiem, The Strike Series, Churchill’s Secret, In the Club, The Musketeers, Game of Thrones, The Body Farm, Waking the Dead, Jane Eyre, The Virgin Queen; and for film, The Runaways, Una, Exodus, Universal Pictures, Child 44, Five Children and It, In a Dark Place, I Capture the Castle, Secret Passage, Susan, Brassed Off, The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down a Mountain and Sirens.

 

Artistic Director of the OT Tom Littler directs. His theatre credits include She Stoops to Conquer, The Circle (Orange Tree Theatre) Saturday Night (Jermyn Street Theatre, Arts Theatre), A Little Night Music (Budapest) Good Grief (Theatre Royal Bath), Dances of Death (Gate Theatre), Martine (Finborough Theatre), Miss Julie and Creditors (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Jermyn Street), Tonight at 8.30, Cancelling Socrates, The Tempest, The Odyssey, 15 Heroines (Jermyn Street Theatre), Cabaret (English Theatre Frankfurt, Deutsches Theater Munich), and Hamlet (Guildford Shakespeare Company). He was Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre from 2017 to 2022, before moving to the OT.

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