Alton Fringe Theatre Presents 'Things I Know to be True ' by Andrew Bovell
The Wessex Arts Theatre, HSDC Alton College, Alton, GU34 2LX
Thursday 13th November 2025 - Saturday 15th November 2025
As beautifully touching as it is funny and bold, Things I Know to be True is a complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family and marriage through the eyes of four grown siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents’ love and expectations.
Bob and Fran Price have worked hard to give their four children the opportunities they never had. Now, with the kids ready to make lives of their own, it’s time to sit back and smell the roses. But the change of the seasons reveals some shattering truths, leaving us asking whether it’s possible to love too much.
Things I Know to be True was premiered in Adelaide, Australia, as a co-production between Frantic Assembly and the State Theatre Company of South Australia. It received its British premiere in 2016, co-produced with Warwick Arts Centre in association with Chichester Festival Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith.
Alton Fringe Theatre’s production brings together a strong cast and offers Joe de Peyrecave his directorial debut with The Fringe.
This production is sure to be a memorable experience.
Expect strong language as the play deals with relationship issues, family breakup, transgender rejection and bereavement.
Allergy advice: As part of the dramatic action, an onion will be sliced during the play.
An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern books
Praise for Andrew Bovell and Things I Know to be True
‘Both down to earth and gently magical. It’s the sort of uniquely theatrical evening that might just convert those suspicious that theatre doesn’t speak to them.’ The Times
‘An understated gem of a play… [its] searing honesty about family relationships stays with you long after the curtain falls.’ Radio Times
‘A thing of beauty... Bovell offers us a portrait of family life in all its gory reality – and it is an absolute gem... so exquisitely observed it makes you wince’ Telegraph
Bob and Fran Price have worked hard to give their four children the opportunities they never had. Now, with the kids ready to make lives of their own, it’s time to sit back and smell the roses. But the change of the seasons reveals some shattering truths, leaving us asking whether it’s possible to love too much.
Things I Know to be True was premiered in Adelaide, Australia, as a co-production between Frantic Assembly and the State Theatre Company of South Australia. It received its British premiere in 2016, co-produced with Warwick Arts Centre in association with Chichester Festival Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith.
Alton Fringe Theatre’s production brings together a strong cast and offers Joe de Peyrecave his directorial debut with The Fringe.
This production is sure to be a memorable experience.
Expect strong language as the play deals with relationship issues, family breakup, transgender rejection and bereavement.
Allergy advice: As part of the dramatic action, an onion will be sliced during the play.
An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern books
Praise for Andrew Bovell and Things I Know to be True
‘Both down to earth and gently magical. It’s the sort of uniquely theatrical evening that might just convert those suspicious that theatre doesn’t speak to them.’ The Times
‘An understated gem of a play… [its] searing honesty about family relationships stays with you long after the curtain falls.’ Radio Times
‘A thing of beauty... Bovell offers us a portrait of family life in all its gory reality – and it is an absolute gem... so exquisitely observed it makes you wince’ Telegraph
