December 1st 1958. Waring Hudsucker, president of 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.

Adapted for the stage by Simon Dormandy
Based on the Warner Brothers film written by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen and Sam Raimi
Directed by Simon Dormandy and Toby Sedgwick

A co-production with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse
Presented with kind permission of Warner Brothers Theatre Ventures