• Runtime: 120 minutes

• Theatre

A play from the author of the popular Noises Off.

Benefactors focuses on the relationship between two 'crumbling concepts' marriage and urban renewal schemes, and between two couples. David a successful, liberal architect, who does not want to build tower blocks but gets caught up in 'the system', and his capable wife Jane, an anthropologist. Their neighbours are Colin, an academic turned embittered journalist, and his hopelessly impractical wife Sheila.

The play explores the tensions between those who create and those who destroy, both in relation to marriage and urban renewal. The dialogue is often sharply funny and sparks the four characters to vivid life.

When the play was premiered in 1984, it won the Evening Standard award and the Laurence Olivier award for best new play.

This amateur production is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd.