BAD WEDNESDAY by Nick Harrison 

Melford House is thrilled to announce an exciting, professional production of a brand new play, ‘Bad Wednesday’ in it’s intimate, drawing room setting and in the very town where PL Travers once lived. 

The play promises to be an evening of revelation and surprise as it examines a part of Travers life not known to most people. 

What happens when Travers is confronted by the boy she chose not to adopt at birth in favour of his twin brother? 

Based on real life events, the play explores the fractious relationship between the successful, complex and unconventional PL Travers and her adopted son. The unexpected arrival of his unadopted brother, 18 years later shakes the foundations of all their lives. 

Featuring actress Joanna Bending as PL Travers, known as a regular on TV’s Doctors, Coronation Street and Eastenders as well as the National Theatre and Royal Court. 

As the two sons, Ryan Heenan plays Travers adopted son. Heenan was recently seen on stage in the West End production of Back to the Future as well as on tour with Jersey Boys and Grease. Gabriel Lumsden, having graduated from Mountview this Summer, makes his professional theatrical debut as Anthony. 

Directing is twice Off West End Award nominee Martin Parr.

Performances take place October 3-6th at 7.30 and 3pm. 

Tickets are priced at £15 and £20

To book tickets and for more information, visit www.theartsfair.com

RYAN HEENAN plays Camillus 

Ryan was most recently in Back To The Future, which can be seen at the Adelphi Theatre in West End.

His previous roles include Robin in Little Robin Redbreast (Salisbury Playhouse), Bellboy/Wallace Hartley in the Titanic the Musical European Tour, Young Tom Osmond / Jimmy Osmond in The Osmonds Musical (workshop production – The Other Palace); Joe Spud (Lead) in Billionaire Boy (UK Tour); John (Lead) in Moonfleet (Salisbury Playhouse); Doody in Grease (UK Tour); Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd (Derby Theatre); Dusty in The Burnt Part Boys (Park Theatre); Kurt Von Trapp in The Sound of Music (Really Useful Group); Himself in Cracking Shakespeare (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama).
Workshops include: Barefoot Youth in Bedbug (National Theatre); Robert in Feather Boy (National Theatre); Soldier in The Wall; Bruce in Matilda (RSC).

For BYMT, Ryan appeared in A Beggar’s Opera (2010), Mort in Mort: The Musical (2011/2012), as Drunken John in Nikki and The Gang (2012), and as Andrei in Variété (2013). 

GABRIEL LUMSDEN plays Anthony

Gabriel is thrilled to be making his professional theatrical debut with Bad Wednesday, having just graduated from Mountview, London. 

Roles whilst training include Hogarth in The Art of Success, Paris in Romeo and Juliet, Roy Cohn in Angels in America, Michel in God of Carnage and Danny in Wasted. 

Prior to Mountview, Gabriel appeared as Jamie in The Last Five Years and Emmett in Legally Blonde.

Gabriel is a highly skilled musician and singer, playing both drums and guitar. 

JOANNA BENDING.

Joanna Bending trained at RADA. Theatre includes: 1984 and The Odyssey (US Tour), Imaginationship (Finborough Theatre), Shadows Of The Evening (Bridewell Theatre), Waiting For God (National Tour), Outings (Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue), The Sound of Murder (National Tour), Kingmaker (Arts Theatre and St James Theatre), Macbeth (U.S. Tour), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (National Theatre), Under The Mulberry Tree (Festival Theatre, Edinburgh), Mountain Language (Royal Court), Phallacy (Kings Head Theatre), Two Women For One Ghost (Regents Park), Hand Over Fist – Stage Best Solo Performance Nomination, Boris: World King, Kingmaker, Trolling, Sex Lives of Others (all for Pleasance, Edinburgh), Blithe Spirit, Intimate Exchanges (Frinton), The Master and Margarita (National Theatre Studio). Television includes: Casualty, Eastenders, Doctors, Holby City, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Angel of Death, Love Soup (all for the BBC); PMTV (Paramount Comedy); The Bill (Talkback Thames); Coronation Street (ITV). Film includes: To The Grave; Second Coming; Tick Tock Lullaby; The Holiday.