Fresh from a run at Hyde Festival Theatre, When We Are Married is a wonderfully colourful comedy by JB Priestley and full of laughs.

Produced by Hyde Little Theatre and directed by Keith Dalby-Oldham, the production is now coming to Audenshaw’s Guide Bridge Theatre this month.

Set in a fictional northern town in 1908,  three couples, the Helliwells, the Parkers and the Soppitts, who are all highly respected pillars of their community, gather at the Helliwell home to celebrate their silver wedding. 

The party comes to a sudden end when the new chapel organist tells them that he recently met the parson who conducted the triple wedding ceremony – and he was not authorised to do so. 

Faced with the reality that they have been ‘living in sin’ all these years, home truths fly like confetti. 

Not only does this discovery undermine the couples’ sense of moral certainty, but it even threatens to tear apart their apparently solid, ‘respectable’ marriages.

Hovering closely over the proceedings is the Yorkshire Argus’ alcohol-soaked photographer, keen to record the evening’s events for posterity, and a wickedly destructive housekeeper who is hoping to use the couples’ mortification to her own advantage.

If you missed this production at Hyde Festival in February, you can enjoy it at Guide Bridge when the play runs from 14 to 19 March.

The curtain goes up each night at 7.30pm.

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