Poor Veta Louise Simmons. All she wants to do is get her daughter Myrtle Mae married off to a nice young man. It's what Veta's late mother Marcella would have wanted, after all.
But there's a problem. A big problem in the shape of a giant invisible rabbit called Harvey.
He's the boon companion of Veta's amiable but eccentric brother Elwood, and both he and Harvey spend most of their time frequenting the town's bars. And Veta knows only too well that no eligible bachelor wants to marry into a family whose members wander about with overgrown invisible rabbits.
First performed as a play in the 1940s and subsequently made into a film starring James Stewart, Mary Chase's enduring Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy Harvey relates how the hapless Veta tries to resolve the problem - with comic consequences.
Committing Elwood and Harvey to a local private sanatorium run by pompous, self-regarding Dr William R Chumley ought to be easy enough, surely. But it all goes hilariously wrong.
The Phoenix Theatre Company's hugely-funny good-humoured new production of Harvey will be on stage at the award-winning Phoenix Theatre in Ross-on-Wye from June 1 to June 8.
To book, visit phoenix-theatre.org.uk or, in person at Rossiter Books in Ross-on-Wye. All performances start at 7.30pm.
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