HumDrum return to The Spring next week with an adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1969 novel, Travels With My Aunt.

Director Caz Gilmore, who last directed Cider With Rosie, seems to be carving a niche for herself in directing literary adaptations for the company.

‘I’ve always been a book-person and what excites me about the adaptations I direct is the theatricality of them; like Cider With Rosie this is no straightforward re-telling of Greene’s story. I’ve got a cast of five who, at one point, are all playing the leading-man!’

‘That said, it is totally faithful to the novel’.

The play tells the story of retired bank-manager Henry Pullling whose eccentric aunt Augusta turns up at his mother’s funeral – and changes his life forever.

‘It’s about the meaning of family and deception and seeing through the facade and grabbing the chances life gives you. It’s a very modern piece; it’s neither wholly comic nor wholly tragic – but it is very enjoyable’.

The show runs from Wednesday to Saturday at The Spring in Havant. Box office: 023 9247 2700.

Photograph by Emma van Kooperen shows Jeanette Broad as Augusta and Mike Palmer, Peter Colley and John Moore as Henry.