Don’t Rock the Boat – The Mill Sonning
The Mill at Sonning is an 1800 circa flour mill converted into a professional theatre and restaurant. Located on an island in the River Thames at Sonning Eye. The environment offers guests dinner and theatre and a welcoming greeting by the Director of Don’t Rock the Boat, Sally Hughes.
Sally Hughes decided to keep Don’t Rock the Boat this 1990’s play to its original prose billed as a comedy but beneath the surface “there are some sharp and family themes” that unfold throughout. This play features two quite different families, the perfect and the chaotic who spend a weekend together on ‘The Bunty’, a barge situated on the River Thames. Everything is not quite how it seems, as the families grapple with ideologies of morality, bribery and political differences. Thes two seeming...