Our Man in Havana
17 TO 26 MARCH 2022
adapted by Clive Francis
from the novel by Graham Greene
directed by David Blakey
Matinees Sunday 20 and Saturday 26 March at 2pm
No evening performance Sunday 20 March
No performance Monday 21 March
James Wormold, an under-employed vacuum cleaner salesman living in 1950s Cuba, is struggling to pay for his teenage daughter's increasingly extravagant lifestyle. So when the British Secret Service asks him to become their 'Man in Havana' he can't afford to say no.
There's just one problem: he doesn't know anything!
To avoid suspicion he begins to recruit non-existent sub-agents, concocting a series of intricate fictions. He files bogus reports using Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. But Wormold soon discovers that his stories are closer to the truth than he could have ever imagined ...
In Clive Francis' adaptation, Graham Greene's classic satirical novel becomes a wonderfully funny and fast-moving romp.
Cast
Wormold
Narrator 1
Narrator 2
Narrator 3
Hawthorne
Milly
Hasselbacher
Segura
Beatrice