Houses Apart

Aim: Long Pause Productions presents Houses Apart is comedy that peels back the layers of family dynamics as five estranged siblings reunite.

Houses Apart is a comedy that explores the more complicated aspects of what it means to be a family. Set in the Essex countryside, the sudden death of Andrew Bennett brings together his five estranged children for the very first time. Now adults, these five individuals are forced to reunite to settle his will and sort through his things. But as they discover, inheritance is about far more than money. As old wounds are reopened and secrets spill out,  the family’s fragile walls collapse - sometimes hilariously, sometimes heartbreakingly. 

The story is a funny inquiry into the complexity of family relations, inheritance and belonging. At its heart, Houses Apart asks: how does the love we are given - or denied - growing up shape who we become? 

CREATIVE TEAM 

Producer - Carmen Anderson 

Director - Alexandra Rizkallah 

Stage Manager - Bailey Cavallaro 

Cast - Faith Foakes, Imogen Peck, Malcolm Webb, Mika Rontti & Viola Rizzardi Penalosa

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 18th August 2025 at 3:46pm