Kate Anthony sat down to chat with Stage Door Johnny about the starring role she is currently playing in one of JB Priestley’s finest comedies, When We Were Married.
Kate Anthony is magnificently gorgon-like as the formidable Clara Soppitt – The Times
When We Are Married is presented by Northern Broadsides in partnership with York Theatre Royal, directed by Barrie Rutter and designed by Jessica Worrall.
The play:
Cleckleywyke, a town in the West Riding, 1908.
The Helliwells, the Parkers and the Soppitts are highly respected pillars of their community … but not for much longer.
Married on the same day in the same chapel, they gather to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. The celebrations are short lived when they discover the vicar wasn’t licensed and they are actually not married. In fact, they have been living in sin for 25 years.
Watch with mounting glee as the pandemonium switches from horrified social embarrassment to the realisation that they are free from the shackles of long tedious marriages. Home truths are dealt, bullies get their retribution and the hen-pecked are hilariously and most satisfyingly liberated.
J B Priestley’s heartily entertaining northern comedy plays right into the hands of the remarkable Northern Broadsides – a company celebrated by audiences for its charisma, vitality and relish of language.
When We Are Married Cast
