Same Time, Next Year is coming to Malvern

Starring Kieran Buckeridge and Sarah Kempton, the play follows the lives of Doris and George's romantic love affair.

The two meet in 1951, and a chance encounter in a Californian hotel leads to a passionate one-night stand.

Both are married to other people but, soon aware that this might be the start of something, they promise to meet 12 months later.

So begins a romantic love affair that lasts 25 years.

The play charts their lives through the ups and downs of parenthood, career highs and lows as well as the shifting fashions and morals of the passing decades.

When asked why audiences will enjoy this play, Kieran said: "I think this play will make you laugh!

"I imagine there will be some heated debate between partners and friends about what they feel is acceptable and unacceptable within a relationship and whether you can be truly in love with more than one person at a time.

"But most importantly, it will make you laugh!"

Sarah added: "This is such an interesting, unique play following these two loveable characters through this experience together over 25 years.

"Seeing how they each develop as people, through a really interesting time in history, seeing how they come together and drift apart at times, watching them learn about each other and themselves in these little 5 yearly pockets.

"It’s such an interesting premise for a story.

"And, of course, it’s a lot of fun!

"It’s genuinely brilliantly written with a great comedic pace and rhythm that’ll keep you laughing while watching George and Doris fall in love.

"You’ll leave the theatre feeling like you shared the past 25 years with a couple of your best friends."

Written by Bernard Slade, Same Time, Next Year is one of the world’s most widely staged plays, originally produced on Broadway in 1975.

The play opens in Malvern on Wednesday, January 26 and its final performance at Malvern theatre is on Saturday, January 29.