Summer Holiday
Based on the film ‘Summer Holiday’
Stage adaptation by Michael Gyngell and Mark Haddigan
Cast
| Don | NAT EKER |
| Barbara |
JO MARSH |
| Cyril | TOM CHESHIRE |
| Edwin | JACK McGAHY |
| Steve | MIKE SULLIVAN |
| Alma | LYDIA PUGH |
| Angie | KATE DE MENZIES |
| Mimsie | HARRIET BILLINGTON |
| Stella | JENNY KENDALL TOBIAS |
| Jerry | MIKE PEPPERBELL |
Synopsis
Summer Holiday tells the story of Don and his friends, four mechanics who work for London Transport. During a miserably wet British summer lunch break, Don arrives, having persuaded London Transport to lend him and his friends a double-decker bus. They convert the London Bus into a holiday caravan, and aim to drive it across continental Europe to the South of France. If they make it they think they might be able to charge people to go the following year and run it as a business. However, their eventual destination is Athens, Greece!
While on the road in France they pick up 3 ladies whose car has broken down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They also pick up a stowaway – a young, American boy!
Meanwhile, a young American female singer has gone missing. Her mother (who is a VERY ambitious woman) and her press agent refused her a holiday, so she ran away. They take the story to the press, and her mother traces a phone call to the singer’s whereabouts. So, off they go in pursuit.
