Published: 14/07/2010 12:53 - Updated: 14/07/2010 12:55

Milton Keynes Theatre

Quartet

Quartet is a touching, charming, bitter-sweet comedy about life-long friendships and growing old disgracefully.

 

Ronald Harwood’s comedy starring Michael Jayston (best remembered for his portrayal as Dr Watson opposite Jeremy Brett’s ‘Holmes‘ in the hit TV series) , Gwen Taylor (Heartbeat, A bit of a Do), Tim West (The Winslow Boy, Old Country) and Susannah York (Gold, Superman, A Man for All Seasons) began its national tour this summer.

 

In a twilight home for musicians, retired opera singers Cissy, Reggie and Wilfred are former colleagues planning a concert to mark the re-release of their famous recording of Verdi’s Rigoletto. Their gentle peace is shattered by the unexpected arrival of legendary diva ‘Jean Horton’. 

 

As old rivalries resurface, long-forgotten secrets are revealed and the four have to put aside their differences in order to come to terms with their past, as well as their future. And the show must go on. And it does.