The Hudsucker Proxy

A Nuffield and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse co-production

19 May – 30 May 2015

7.20pm / Saturdays 2.30pm

£25.00 – £10.00

Based on the Warner Bros. film, ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’, written by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen & Sam Raimi.

Presented with kind permission of Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.

December 1st 1958. Waring Hudsucker, president of the giant Hudsucker Industries, has just thrown himself from the 45th floor. The business world holds its breath. But the board of directors has a cunning plan: put an idiot in his place, depress the stock price, buy up all the shares and make a million! And they’ve found the perfect proxy: a clumsy, big-hearted goof with some hare-brained scheme to reinvent the wheel.

Only Norville Barnes may not be quite as stupid as he looks…

Based on the Coen Brothers’ joyful, wise-cracking romantic comedy which helped establish them among the most entertaining and distinctive film-makers of our time and directed by Simon Dormandy and Toby Sedgwick (War Horse, 39 Steps), this timely take on corporate greed is a highly theatrical, inventively staged treat.