Present Laughter (7.30pm daily, 2.30pm Saturday matinee)

Actor Garry Essendine is at the height of his career. He’s successful, witty, surrounded by adoring fans and about to take his latest hit abroad. He’s also in the middle of a turbulent mid-life crisis. 

Holed up in his flat, he is assailed from all quarters: a young debutante wants to seduce him, a crazed playwright from Uckfield wants to worship him and his producer’s wife wants to... well, what exactly does she intend? 

Under the mordant eye of his long-suffering secretary and the implacable gaze of his estranged but resolute wife, Garry struggles to keep all his plates spinning. 

This slyly satirical comedy about sex, fame and the theatre itself – and a man wrestling with his own facade – is regarded as Noël Coward’s most autobiographical writing. 

Act V Theatre return to the Alma Tavern after last year’s successful production of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis. 

All tickets include a £1 admin charge.

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