A festival of plays directed by students from the first year of the Orange Tree Theatre and St Mary's University's MA in Theatre Directing. Five plays by five directors playing in repertoire over 10 days with all tickets £7.50.
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By kind permission of Samuel French, Stopgap Theatre will be performing Rumours by Neil Simon.
A barrister, an accountant, an analyst and a would-be MP (accompanied by their wives) arrive at the 28th wedding anniversary party of Charley Brooks, the Deputy Finance Minister only to find his wife Vivian, the hostess, missing and Charley with a bullet hole in his ear lobe. An evening of complications and misunderstandings have to be concocted into a plausible story to avert a public scandal when two policemen arrive at the house later in the evening. Pure farce!
Isleworth Public Hall
Stopgap Theatre
by Diane Samuels, directed by Michelle Hood
On the brink of World War II, nine-year-old Eva is sent to Britain for refuge from Nazi Europe, with little more than a suitcase and an identity label, one of 10,000 children evacuated in a rescue mission called the Kindertransport. Eva is taken in and raised by a well-meaning English woman. Torn between her German heritage and her need to wipe the
Kindertransport experience from her memory, Eva eventually learns to adapt to her new life and identity. Kindertransport moves seamlessly between present time and memory, as the consequences of Eva's painful childhood loss play out many years later, and we discover how these continue to cast a shadow that somehow needs to be faced. Her story is based on autobiographical accounts from actual Kindertransport children.
A moving and thought-provoking play about mothers, daughters and the powerful need for reconciliation. Kindertransport tells a captivating story of survival and building a new life, and which strikingly resonates with current events facing the world today.
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by William Shakespeare, directed by Simon Bartlett
"... England, that was wont to conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself"A despotic ruler embedded in the past, surrounded by yes-men. A country taxed to the hilt, led into futile wars and feuds, and haunted by suspected murders. Opposition gathers round a rival in the hopes of new start.
Shakespeare's great lyrical tragedy shows a world on the brink - but is it of chaos, or a new order?
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by E. Nesbit adapted by Mike Kenny, directed by John Roth
If ever there was a "timeless" classic tale, this is surely it. There have been many Stage adaptations, but the one by Mike Kenny for the now famous presentation at Waterloo Station, later at Kings Cross, is the one chosen for our Christmas production.
This is loosely described as the "Adult" version, but do not let this influence you, since it is basically nostalgic: all it needs, as Mr. Kenny points out, is imagination, and as Bobbie says in the very opening: "Do you remember? We were the Railway Children".Come and enjoy this charming and exquisite piece of our literary heritage.
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by Anton Burge, directed by Harry Medawar
Robert Aldrich's 1962 film tells the story of Blanche and Jane Hudson, two sisters bound forever by guilt and deceit. Playing the title role, Bette Davis was nominated for an Oscar while her co-star, Joan Crawford, was not. Anton Burge's highly entertaining comedy gives us Hollywood's grandest at close quarters in their adjacent dressing rooms on set. After thirty years, was the first time the two actresses had worked together, an opportunity to bury past rivalries and for any sense of antipathy to be forgotten. Yeah, ...
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