Quartermaine’s Terms (From This Is Wiltshire)

Quartermaine’s Terms

4:12pm Wednesday 4th June 2008

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Monday, June 9 until Saturday, June 17, Theatre Royal Bath.

Simon Gray's hilarious and sharp-witted play, Quartermaine's Terms, starring Nathaniel Parker and Christopher Timothy, tours to the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday.

The staff common room at a Cambridge School of English is filled with the vivid and idiosyncratic characters of academic life, none more so than the affable, if somewhat befuddled, St John Quartermaine (Nathaniel Parker). While his colleagues lead varied and exciting lives around him, Quartermaine bumbles through an existence which has remained cosily the same for years. However, with the prospect of the appointment of a new principal, a wind of change appears to be on its way.

Written with the sparkling wit and incisiveness for which Simon Gray is acclaimed, Quartermaine's Terms is a fascinating and frequently hilarious, study of human relationships.

One of the nation's favourite actors, Nathaniel Parker can currently be seen on television as Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, in the BBC's hugely successful The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
Christopher Timothy, who appears as Henry Windscape, became a household name playing vet James Herriot in the long-running BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. He has seldom been off our screens since, and recently created the leading role of Dr Brendan Mac' MacGuire in the BBC hospital drama Doctors, which he also directed. He recently guest starred as Karl Ackerman in four episodes of Casualty, and his numerous television credits have also included Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em and The Les Dawson Show. His many performances at the Theatre Royal Bath include, most recently, Hay Fever with Stephanie Beacham in June 2007.

Charles Kay, who plays the role of Eddie Loomis, is also a familiar face on our television screens, appearing in Miss Marple, Midsomer Murders, Jonathan Creek, The Darling Buds of May, and Love from Colditz. His stage work includes four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company appearing in Peter Hall's War of the Roses. In the West End, he was in the original cast of The Woman in Black and was last seen at the Theatre Royal as Cardinal Felici in The Last Confession with David Suchet in June 2007.

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