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27th - 29th September 2007 at 8pm
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Find the answers to love and life itself in "WOULD
LIKE TO MEET", a brand new play by local writers
Paul Forrester O'Neill and Christopher Salisbury.
Attractive single brunette age 30(?) WLTM fun-loving sensitive
audience with SOH for evening of theatrical fun and games&ldots;
What is the "Pompidou Suite"? Is it "all about
confidence"? Should you still be playing football at 48? And
does anyone know what post-modern means? Find out the answers to
these and other more complex questions about the search for love and
for life itself in this exciting new play by local authors, Paul
Forrester O'Neill and Chris Salisbury.
Great cast. Initially looking to share experiences of dating. Could
lead to thoughts of companionship, even romance. Prepare to laugh
and, perhaps, cry a little at this original REP STUDIO production.
(All performances only £6 per ticket)
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22nd - 27th October 2007 at 7.30pm
(Matinee performance Sat.
27th October at 2.30pm)
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When cosy BBC soap 'Applehurst' loses its most popular character,
alter ego June Buckridge loses everything important to her in the
Frank Marcus comedy, "THE KILLING OF
SISTER GEORGE".
'They're going to murder me'...
With its village green, ducks on the pond, friendly yokels and cheery
district nurse, Sister George, the BBC's fictional village of
Applehurst is a rosy tinted, nostalgic portrayal of traditional
country life. And that's the problem. When 'the powers that be'
decide that Applehurst needs a more contemporary edge, the formidable
Mrs Mercy Croft is dispatched from Broadcasting House to inform the
actress playing Sister George that her character is to be sacrificed
upon the altar of ratings.
However, the real Miss June Buckridge is about as far removed from
the cosy Sister George as it is possible to get, and as things
progress, it becomes apparent that her fictional character is not the
only thing which June is about to lose.
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21st November 2007 at 7.30pm
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A special for Radio 4 listeners:
BARRY CRYER: 'STILL ALIVE'
And he is – in a completely new, organically grown show, old Baz
recalls, reminisces, recounts and other words beginning with
‘R’, on a trip down memory lane, pausing only for tea and
macaroons at the Stannah Stairlift Café.
What memories - if only he can remember them. Jokes, songs, stories
and on certain nights, Pole Vaulting, if his friend Vaclev from
Warsaw turns up. Currently 72, a third of his life has already passed
and he invites you to join him in a decorous orgy of nostalgia. And
this show is proactive! You have the chance to shout out a page
number from one of his books and he will relate the story thereon.
Join Baz, in a gala evening featuring Colin Sell, as he wanders
through his life - and yours. Two hours of chuckle therapy - all
patients seen immediately.
Ticket Price: £20
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3rd - 8th December 2007 at 7.30pm
(Matinee performance Sat. 8th
December at 2.30pm)
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A new play by Alan Ayckbourn, one could condemn it as an "IMPROBABLE
FICTION"! Six aspiring writers collaborate to comic
effect in their differing genres.
Writers in circles...
 Six
aspiring authors meet on a winter's evening to discuss their work.
Among them are writers of historical romances and children's
literature who are finding it difficult to get started and a crime
writer who can't stop. A creator of extremely complicated science
fiction, a librettist without a musical partner and affable Arnold
Hassock, the Writers' Circle chairman, who produces instruction
booklets, make up the rest of the team.
Arnold's suggestion that the team collaborate on a piece of writing
is received without enthusiasm. However, as the meeting wraps up
there is a clap of thunder, a black-out and then the collaboration
takes place before his very eyes.
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28th January - 2nd February 2008 at 7.30pm
(Matinee performance Sat. 2nd
February at 2.30pm)
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In Friedrich Schiller's classic, "DON CARLOS",
intrigue, sexual jealousy and treachery explode into civil war in
sixteenth century Spain. A new version by Mike Poulton.
A family portrait in a royal household...
 Don
Carlos is passionately in love with Elizabeth, the French princess
to whom he was once betrothed. Carlos' tyrannical father, King Philip
II of Spain, decides to marry Elizabeth himself. The young prince's
hatred for his cold and distant parent knows no bounds and he enlists
his oldest friend, the Marquis of Posa, to act as a go-between, but
Posa decides to convert Carlos and Elizabeth's youthful passion into
a full-scale rebellion against King Philip's oppressive and bloody regime.
Near incestuous passion, sexual jealousy and intrigue are all played
out against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition.
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10th - 15th March 2008 at 7.30pm
(Matinee performance Sat.
15th March at 2.30pm)
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Adapted by Owen McCafferty from the screen classic. Two Belfast
émigrés in Sixties London find their love for each
other shattered by their love for the bottle in J.P. Miller's "DAYS
OF WINE AND ROSES".
'We were like movie stars - I used to imagine we didn't walk, we
glided - now all we do is stumble - it wasn't meant to be like this'...
Donal and Mona meet at Belfast Airport. Both headed for London and
sharing similar big city dreams in the swinging sixties, they fall in
love with life, each other and drink. An exciting whirlwind of
discovery starts to spiral out of control as alcohol takes its grip
before they are eventually forced to choose - each other or the bottle?
Based on the 1962 screenplay by J.P. Miller, famously filmed with
Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick, this new version won author Owen
McCafferty the Evening Standard Award for New Playwriting.
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Monday 28th April - Saturday 3rd May 2008
Stoke Repertory Players present:
Out of Order! by Ray Cooney.
Performances at 7.30pm. Sat. 3rd
May at 2.30pm and 7.30pm)
When Richard Willey, a Government Junior Minister, plans to spend the
evening with Jane Worthington, secretary to the Leader of the
Opposition, things go disastrously wrong - beginning with the
discovery of a "body" trapped in the hotel's only reliable
sash window.
Desperately trying to get out of a sticky situation, Richard calls
for his PPS, George Pigden. However, with a conniving waiter, a
suspicious hotel manager, an alert private detective, an angry wife,
a furious husband, a bungling secretary, an unconscious nurse and an
intermittently dead body to deal with, nothing is going to go as
Richard planned.
Actor, playwright and director Ray Cooney, sometimes known as
"the master of farce", is one of Britain’s most
successful playwrights. He has had 17 plays staged in the West End
including "Run For Your Wife", "Caught in the Net"
and "Funny Money". His work has been translated into more
than 40 languages and his plays have been staged all around the
world. He was awarded an OBE in 2005.
Out of Order! is directed by Martin Alcock.
Tickets £8.00 - Students £4.50
1st Night and Saturday Matinee, all tickets
£6.00 (no concessions)
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16th - 21st June 2008 at 7.30pm
(Matinee performance Sat.
21st June at 2.30pm)
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In "SEPARATE TABLES" by
Terence Rattigan, the permanent residents of the Beauregard Hotel,
Bournemouth, come to terms with their past disappointments and put
the world to rights.
Bournemouth beaus and belles...
The two plays which comprise 'Separate Tables' are set in the
slightly run-down Beauregard Hotel, Bournemouth. It is 'off-season,
so only the permanent guests are in residence, all of whom lay claim
to their allocated seats at rather stark separate tables in the
dining room or hold court in the hotel lounge.
In the first play one of the inhabitants finds that his secret affair
is compromised when a figure from his past arrives unexpectedly and
re-opens some emotional wounds. Eighteen months later, in play two,
one of the most ebullient guests faces disgrace and ostracism when
his inappropriate behaviour is revealed in the local press and he is
forced to confront not only the other guests, but himself.
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