WE ARE DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE OUR SEASON FOR 2009
January
22nd – 31st
THE SHELL SEEKERS
Adapted by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham
From the novel by Rosamund Pilcher
The story of Penelope Keeling and her family and the passion and heartbreak’s that have held them together for three generations and also of The Shell Seekers itself, a painting which threatens to tear the family apart.
DIRECTED BY JUDE WYATT
February
19th – 28th
BEDROOM FARCE
By Alan Ayckbourn
Three bedrooms, three households, four couples. Vintage Ayckbourn comedy.
DIRECTED BY JEFFREY DAVIES
March
19th – 28th
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
By Ariel Dorfman
Set in a fragile new South American democracy, this piece concerns Paulina who, fifteen years earlier was abused by the police. When her husband brings home a man stranded by his broken-down car, she becomes convinced he is one of her torturers.
DIRECTED BY PETER SOWERBUTTS
April
23rd – May 2nd
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Pride And Prejudice, or Three Weddings And An Elopement!
By Jane Austen
Adapted by Roger Parsley
Possibly the greatest tale of love and passion from the pen of M/s Austen
DIRECTED BY ROGER PARSLEY
May
21st – 30th
SEPARATE TABLES
By Terence Rattigan
Rattigan’s wonderful exploration of hotel life on the South Coast in the mid 20th c
DIRECTED BY RHETT DAVIES
JUNE
18TH – 27TH
HABEAS CORPUS
By Alan Bennett
As Dr Wicksteed says, “He, whose lust lasts, lasts longest”.
Alan Bennett’s hilarious tale of mistaken identities and sexual encounters set in a doctor’s practice in Hove.
DIRECTED BY PETER SOWERBUTTS
JULY
23RD – 1st August
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
By Oliver Goldsmith
The glorious Hardcastle family brought to life in this colourful 18th c romp and including Goldsmith’s greatest character Tony Lumpkin.
DIRECTED BY TIM SEELY
AUGUST
20TH – 29TH
Ira Levin’s
DEATHTRAP
Set in an isolated house in New England thriller writer Sidney Bruhl has run out of ideas for a new play. When a young, unknown dramatist brings him his new work Sidney develops a new plot of his own.
DIRECTED BY PETER SOWERBUTTS
SEPTEMBER
17TH – 26TH
THE ACCRINGTON PALS
By Peter Whelan
This lyrical and absorbing play is set in Accrington during the first two years of the Great War. The “Pals” are the men from the local volunteer battalion who march high-spiritedly off to war.
DIRECTED BY JUDI DAYKIN
OCTOBER
22ND – 31ST
LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN
By Oscar WildeWhen the lady of the title mistakenly leaves her fan in Lord Darlington’s rooms a tale of honour and friendship ensues in true Wilde fashion.
DIRECTED BY PETER SOWERBUTTS
NOVEMBER
19TH – 28TH
I AM A CAMERA
By John Van Druten
The original story of Sally Bowles (Cabaret) taken from the writings of Christopher Isherwood.
DIRECTED BY ROB MORRIS
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