Humble Boy

Humble Boy

"Humble Boy" is a 2001 English play by Charlotte Jones.

Production history

It premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 2001, directed by John Caird, with the leads played by Simon Russell Beale and Diana Rigg, and also featuring Cathryn Bradshaw, Denis Quilley, Marcia Warren and William Gaunt. This production won the 2001 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play and two 2001 Olivier Awards (for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, for Marcia Warren; and Best Set Designer for Tim Hatley).

It has since also been produced at the Tarragon Theatre, the Vancouver Playhouse, the Theatre Calgary, the Citadel Theatre and the Manitoba Theatre Centre

Plot

Felix Humble is a 35-year-old Cambridge astro-physicist hunting for a unified field theory who returns to his Cotswolds home on his father's death and finds that his mother has been having an affair.

External links

* [http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Humble20Boy+1207.twl National Theatre website]


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