London Suite

2009 season · Production archive

America’s premier comic playwright crosses the Atlantic for a suite of four very different stories set in a smart London hotel that will never be the same after these four couples check in. The stories include a cautionary tale of daylight robbery and deceit, a mother’s unforgettable romantic interlude, the poignant reunion of an estranged couple, and the hilarious antics of the guest who lost his Wimbledon tickets.

Written by

Neil Simon

Directed by

Robert Kramer

Ran

July 10 – August 29, 2009

About the production

Four self-contained plays sharing one hotel-room set is an efficient piece of design for a theatre that cannot change scenery, and Simon wrote the piece in 1995 as a companion to his earlier Plaza Suite and California Suite. A small company can double across the four stories and the audience is never asked to believe in more than one room.

The production ran seven weeks through high summer and brought the house a supporting-actress nomination in the Colorado Theatre Guild’s Henry Awards for 2010, one of two the theatre received that year.

What the press said

“London Suite at the Vic is good comedy, delivered well…clever, funny, and well written…a lot to laugh at and enjoy.”

“London Suite certainly maintains the high quality of entertainment that “The Vic” is known for…a very strong and well rounded evening of entertainment.”

Where it sat in the season

It was production 4 of 7 in the Vic’s 2009 season. It followed The Fantasticks (May 8 – Jun 27, 2009) and was followed by The Butler Did It (Sep 11 – Oct 31, 2009). The full year is set out on the season calendars page, and every production the theatre staged between 2005 and 2011 is indexed in the production archive.

The house’s standard pattern was Friday and Saturday evenings at 7.30 with a Sunday matinee, over a run of six to eight weeks. With seventy-five seats, a full eight-week run put roughly 1,800 people through the room — which a 500-seat theatre does in four nights, and which is the single fact that explains most of what the Vic chose to programme.

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This page is part of the production archive of the Denver Victorian Playhouse, a seventy-five-seat theatre in the basement of a northwest Denver house that staged its last performance in 2011. Details here are restored from the theatre’s own records as they were published at the time; press quotations are reproduced with their original attributions and nothing has been added to them.