Wonderful Day at Ensemble

Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre is preparing for its upcoming season of My Wonderful Day.

Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre is preparing for its upcoming season of My Wonderful Day.

My Wonderful Day is Alan Ayckbourn’s 73rd play which premiered in London and New York in 2009, the same year he turned 70 and the 50th anniversary of his very first play The Square Cat. 

Nine-year-old Winnie Barnstairs  (Belinda Jombwe) is taking a day off school and accompanies her heavily pregnant single mum, Laverne (Shareena Clanton), to work. Laverne is cleaning the fashionable house of cantankerous minor television personality, Kevin Tate (Mark Owen-Taylor). Laverne tells Winnie she must be quiet and do her homework, an essay titled “My Wonderful Day.”

Kevin’s media savvy, BAFTA winning wife Paula (Danielle Carter) has just walked out on him. His ditzy “half-baked tart” secretary Tiffany (Matilda Ridgway) and bleary-eyed crony Josh (Brian Meegan) arrive to assess the damage, and Winnie is left in the eccentric care of these variously churlish, twittering, doleful, upset adults. She listens, she watches, she writes it down.

Directed by Anna Crawford (Brooklyn Boy, A Year With Frog And Toad) and making their Ensemble Theatre debuts are Belinda Jombwe (recent graduate of Performance Studies from University of Sydney and NIDA’s Screen Actors course) and Shareena Clanton (2010 WAAPA graduate), joined by Brian Meegan (Ninety, Abigail’s Party, Chapter Two, Art), Mark Owen-Taylor (Absurd Person Singular, Stella By Starlight, Life Support, Educating Rita), Danielle Carter (Absurd Person Singular, Face to Face) and Matilda Ridgway (Rain Man, Brooklyn Boy, The Ruby Sunrise).

The play opens on May 12. Bookings: (02) 9929 0644.