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Bakersfield Mist Tickets

'Beautifully performed play put a smile on my face and kept my brain buzzing' The Times

Performance dates

10 May 2014 to 09 August 2014

Duchess Theatre

Run time: 80 mins, no interval.

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Inspired by true events, this new play by Stephen Sachs asks vital questions about what makes art and people truly authentic. BAKERSFIELD MIST marks the return to the London stage of multi award-winner Kathleen Turner for the first time since her tour-de-force performance in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She will play opposite Olivier and Tony award-winner Ian McDiarmid (Life of Galileo, Faith Healer) directed by Evening Standard award-winner, Polly Teale. 

Maude, a fifty-something unemployed bartender, has bought a painting for a few bucks from the thrift store. Despite almost trashing it, she now thinks it's a Jackson Pollock worth millions. In fact she's certain it is. But when world-class art expert, Lionel Percy, flies over from New York and arrives at her trailer park home in Bakersfield to authenticate the painting, he really has no idea what he is about to discover.
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