Torquay Theatre Troupe will take on Charlotte Jones’ Hamlet-inspired modern play, Humble Boy, in a series of shows starting next week.
Troupe president Fred Preston described the comedy about a dysfunctional family as side-splittingly funny.
“We crack up each time we deliver the lines in rehearsal,” he said.
The play follows Jones’s hero Felix Humble, a Cambridge Fellow who has returned to his family home in countryside England after the death of his father.
He finds his mother, having discarding his father’s beehives and belongings, contemplating marriage to her lover.
The jittery Felix reunites his discarded girlfriend Rosie – the daughter of his mother’s lover – who has an enormous surprise for him.
Felix desperately searches for a way of resolving the tension between Einstein’s theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
At the same time, the astrophysicist struggles to find scientific “theory of everything” for his own life.
Bees, spirits and physics combine as the depressed and stuttering modern-day Hamlet tries to heal the rifts in his family.
Torquay Theatre Troupe will perform Humble Boy, directed by Gay Bell, starting 7 November.
