Last Updated on 1 May 2022 by Showcall Editorial Team

An Hour and a Half Late Tour

Olivier Award-winners Griff Rhys Jones and Janie Dee are to star in An Hour and a Half Late, a play by Gerald Sibleyras with Jean Dell adapted and directed by Belinda Lang.

The devastatingly funny portrait of a couple whose five minutes of candid conversation launches an outpouring of emotions, home truths, wine, nibbles and anarchy will open at Theatre Royal Bath from 16 – 22 February 2022 then tour.

“Down in deepest W9, there is no more mozzarella al pesto. The baked cod is history. What was a fish, now – just a few pathetic bones. A stilton put out to breathe this afternoon, has probably started to evolve”.

Life seems good for Peter and Linda Travers. Home is a luxury riverside apartment. Their third child has finally moved out and they have more money than they know what to do with. They are just about to leave and meet friends to celebrate a lucrative business deal when Linda drops a bombshell – she’s not going…

Actor, writer, presenter, comedian and two-time Olivier Award winner Griff Rhys Jones returns to Bath for the first time since the Moliere classic comedy, The Miser. He has previously been seen on stage as Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh’s Oliver!, Toad in the National Theatre’s The Wind in the Willows and in Feydeau’s An Absolute Turkey.

Janie Dee is one of the UK’s most versatile actors, the winner of Olivier Awards for Carousel, Comic Potential and Hello Dolly. Her recent credits include the Broadway hit Hand to God, Follies at the National Theatre, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in the Theatre Royal Bath’s 2019 Summer Season.

The An Hour and a Half Late Tour is produced by PW Productions, Theatre Royal Bath Productions and Sam Julyan.