Previous Productions
Life Goes On
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Adrian Hodges
Thurs 23rd April - Sat 25th April
[Spring 2009]
This comedy opens in the hours following the funeral of George Marlowe, who left this life unexpectedly whilst repairing his wife's hairdryer.
George's younger brother, Michael, a would-be film producer attempts to seduce Debbie, youngest sister of his partner Helen and of Joyce, George's widow.During the evening Michael leaps from assignations with all three sisters, until the arrival of George's ghost puts paid to his intentions. George has been allowed back to tie up the loose ends of his life, including dealing with Michael's philandering.
Cecily
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Gillian Plowman
[One Act 2009]
Cecily, destined to spend her life in a wheelchair following an accident, is the center of the universe for Sheila (her mother) and Ellen (Sheila's sister). On this particular afternoon when Ellen comes to visit, the conversation between the sisters is laced with frustration over their relationship and their different viewpoints of handing the physically and mentally affected Cecily. As their emotions heighten, we are caught in the passion of the family dreams and family secrets that they share—the most heartbreaking of all concerning Cecily.
Mansfield Park
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Jane Austen (adapted for stage)
27th November - 30th November 2008
[Autumn 2008]
As a young girl, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral compass, she becomes especially close to Edmund, Thomas's younger son. Fanny is soon possessed of beauty as well as a keen mind and comes to the attention of a neighbor, Henry Crawford. Thomas promotes this match, but to his displeasure, Fanny has a mind of her own, asking Henry to prove himself worthy. As Edmund courts Henry's sister and as light shines on the link between Thomas's fortunes and New World slavery, Fanny must assess Henry's character and assert her heart as well as her wit.
Habeas Corpus
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Alan Bennett
24th April - 26th April
[Spring 2008]
The action takes place in the Wicksteed's house in Hove. There, in a satirical merry-go-round, we meet a family and its friends and acquaintances for whom the determination to put sex and the satisfactions of the body (or corpus) before everything else is the ruling passion of their lives. The permissive society is taken to task in a farcical comedy in which the characters, stereotypes as their names (eg Canon Throbbing) suggest, move - and indeed dance - in and out through a maze of mistaken identities and sexual encounters. As Dr Wicksteed says at the close: "He whose lust lasts, lasts longest."
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
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C S Lewis (Adapted by Adrian Mitchell)
27th November - 29th November
[Autumn 2007]
Whilst evacuated during WWII to the home of a strange professor, the Pevensie children find the magic world of Narnia through the back of wardrobe. In Narnia it is always winter and never Christmas and its inhabitants live in fear of the White Witch. But a thaw is starting and there is word that Aslan is on the move...
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[ 2007]
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