Of Mice And Men

“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place…with us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us”.

Set in America during the Great Depression, this classic play tells the story of George and Lennie, two migrant farm workers, who go in search of new beginnings, in the hope of attaining their shared dream: of putting together enough money to buy a small piece of land and building a home.

After a long and exhausting journey, the pair arrive at a farm in California where they seek work. But they are no strangers to trouble and soon find themselves reeling from the fall out of an innocent misunderstanding which spirals out of control and leaves the two men, bound together by friendship, facing an earth-shattering climax.

John Steinbeck is one of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century and Of Mice and Men remains one of the most poignant statements of being human our contemporary theatre has produced.

Dudley Sutton plays Candy. Dudley is best known for his role in the ITV classic Lovejoy but is also a renowned stage actor who began his career in some of the most iconic plays of the sixties, including Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane and Tom Murphy’s A Whistle In The Dark. Over the course of his career he has worked with legendary directors including Federico Fellini, Joan Littlewood, Derek Jarman, Sally Potter and Ken Russell.

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