In a team-building exercise gone horribly wrong, four puffy beleaguered businessmen find themselves shipwrecked, abandoned and alone for the night in the deadly wilds of the Lake District. Without phone signal, without supplies and without a clue, Gordon, Angus, Roy and Neville must face all the perils that nature can throw at them as they brave an evening trapped on Neville’s island. Prepare for laughter, sorrow, blood and tears as the stuffy middle class finds itself a little too close to the salt of the earth.
Playwright Tim Firth’s comedy was greeted uproariously back in 1992, and this Chichester Festival Theatre revival has also landed with aplomb, making Neville’s Island an ideal theatre break. With Adrian Edmonson reprising his role as Gordon, and joined by comedy superstars Miles Jupp, Neil Morrissey and Robert Webb, Neville’s Island promises an incisive swipe at corporate middlemen as they go to pieces in the wilderness equivalent of your back garden.
Add a hotel to your Neville’s Island theatre break and enjoy a plush overnight stay in the heart of London’s West End. With your accommodation sorted, why not add rail to your booking, and make travelling to your Neville’s Island theatre break as easy as your ticket and hotel!
"The performances are solid and there’s an impressively lush set" - Evening Standard
"It's Tim Firth's lasting achievement that he's nailed so many macho myths in one delirious, slightly implausible scenario" - Whatsonstage
"The production has been cleverly cast with a quartet of comic performers best known for the work on television. It's a nice paradox, in the circumstances, that their own fine team-work brings a dyspeptic dynamism to the unravelling of the quartet." - Independent
• Rufus Hound and John Marquez, who starred in the original Chichester revival, have gone on to co-star in the acclaimed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• The 1992 play made a slow southbound journey to London, premiering at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, then the Nottingham Playhouse, before landing at the West End’s Apollo Theatre in 1994
• Tim Firth also wrote the film Calendar Girls, and adapted it for stage
None, but adult language and themes explored.
Booking early is key for cheap theatre breaks for Neville’s Island. The Upper Circle is where the Duke of York’s budget seats are located, but watch out for the tight legroom there. Row G and H are benches, so do consider whether this is worth the discount you get there.
Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm
Running time - 2 hours, 20 minutes
Booking until - 03/01/2015
Those in the first two rows may get wet! If you book online, we will only allocate these rows if nothing else is available at the chosen price band. Please call on 01482 221 256 for further details.