“Son, that girl, she’s a nice girl, but she doesn’t study accounting. Her lips move when she read the horoscope – that ain’t the mark of a future accountant!”
Ever since his wife passed away, ex-cop Walter ‘Pops’ Washington has filled his lavish rent-controlled apartment in one of Manhattan’s most desirable districts with an extended family, made up of petty criminals and oddballs. So now Pops finds himself besieged by the other landlords, who want him out of the building, the NYPD, who want him to settle his lawsuit against them, and the local churchgoing ladies who want to save his soul … But as he remains calm at the eye of the storm, Pops is going to do...... what Pops wants to do…
Michael Longhurst returns to the Hampstead Theatre with Between Riverside And Crazy, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ fast-moving Rabelaisian tragicomedy, and was a Broadway hit, winning multiple awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
‘Astonishing… as it flips between comedy and tragedy on its way to the truth in between’ New York Times
__Access performances__
Captioned performance – 11th June 19:30
Audio Described – 15th June 14:30
