Friday night will see the local public premiere of Home, I’m Darling, a 2018 play from Great Britain that may be seeing its first California staging at the Raven Theater. In fact, it’s unclear if the play has been staged much at all since its success in winning the Olivier Award in 2019 for best new comedy in its London production.
Certainly its timing, becoming available just as Covid shut down most public meeting places early in 2020, has a lot to do with its relative unfamiliarity. That’s about to change, at least in Healdsburg, as the Raven Players have enlisted director Caroline Clark and a capable cast of half a dozen actors to bring Laura Wade’s play to life.
Said Steven David Martin, “I loved the writing and the character development, as well as its intriguing, and timely, premise.” Martin says he spends “a lot of time reading and seeing a wide variety of plays year-round” in his role as artistic director of the Raven Players…