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19th to 24th October 2009 at 7.30pm
(Matinee performance Sat.
24th October at 2.30pm)
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"Can't Pay? Won't Pay!" by
Dario Fo
The women are revolting (and who can blame them). They do their best
to keep their homes and their gullible men folk in order, but it
isn't easy when the cost of living is rocketing and the politicians
are all as bent as bedsprings. There's only so much a girl can take
and when inflation runs riot, so do they - storming the supermarket
and making off with the groceries.
Problem. How do you conceal six months worth of groceries in a tiny
apartment, away from the prying eyes of both the husbands and the
police? You use your initiative, lie like mad and if it causes
widespread mayhem and confusion - hey ho! Dario Fo's comedy is
snappy, fast and funny as the wonderfully witty, wily women run rings
around everyone.
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2nd
to 7th November 2009 at 7.30pm
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Scrapbooks Productions Present
"Gossamer" by John Misto
Scrapbooks returns to the Rep with a story of intrigue, magic and
humour based on actual events. What happens when Houdini discovers a
magic trick he cannot perform? When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle encounters
a mystery that baffles even Sherlock Holmes? These two legendary men
join forces to unravel the greatest riddle of the 20th Century. Their
rivals? Two young girls. Did Frances and Elsie really photograph
fairies, or was theirs just the worlds most elaborate hoax? As
Houdini and Conan Doyle search for answers, they are ensnared in the
puzzle they are trying to solve a secret as deadly as Baskerville
Hound and as fine as a gossamer web. Two famous men. Two young girls.
A mystery that stretches from Australia to Buckingham Palace. This is
a story guaranteed to astonish and amaze you. And this one is true!
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7th to 12th December 2009 at 7.30pm
(Matinee performance Sat.
12th December at 2.30pm)
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"See How They Run" by Philip King
Set in the idyllic village of Merton-cum-Middlewick. The village
inhabitants are preparing themselves for the imminent threat of Nazi
invasion. Resident nosy-parker and spinster, Miss Skillon, becomes
convinced that her beloved vicar's actress wife is having an affair
and attempts to expose her. Add an escaped German prisoner of war, a
handsome actor, the visiting Bishop of Lax, a rotund locum priest and
some meddling neighbours and you have all the ingredients for a
classic British comedy.
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25th to 30th January 2010 at 7.30pm
(Matinee performance Sat.
30th January at 2.30pm)
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"Humble Boy" by
Charlotte Jones
All is not well in the Humble hive. Thirty-five-year-old Felix Humble
is a Cambridge astro-physicist in search of a unified field theory.
Following the sudden death of his father, Felix returns to his middle
England home and his difficult and demanding mother, where he soon
realises that his search for unity must include his own chaotic home
life which includes, among others, his mother's rather questionable
boyfriend, George, George's daughter (with whom Felix has a bit of
'history') and family friend, the timid, mousy Mercy - not to mention
the bees.
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15th to 20th March 2010 at 7.30pm
(Matinee performance Sat.
20th March at 2.30pm)
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"Elephant Man" by
Bernard Pomerance
The story of the last four years
of the life of John Merrick, as depicted in the film of the same name
starring John Hurt. Born with an extreme congenital deformity,
Merrick's mother had consigned him to the Leicester workhouse when he
was just three years old. Grown up, he was forced to earn a living as
a 'freak show' with a travelling showman, which is where the surgeon,
Frederick Treves found him. The play tells the story of not only
Merrick's medical problems, but also the psychological and emotional
difficulties faced by a normal man in an abnormal body who cannot
conform to society's perceptions of 'normal'
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3rd to 8th May 2010 at 7.30pm
(Matinee performance Sat. 8th
May at 2.30pm)
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"The Glass Menagerie" by
Tennesse Williams
Abandoned by her husband when he
'fell in love with long distances', Amanda Wingfield comforts herself
with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue
Mountains when she was pursued by 'gentlemen callers'. Her son, Tom,
a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from
his mother's suffocating embrace. Laura, her shy, disabled daughter,
has her menagerie of glass animals and her memories. Amanda is
desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when at last a
long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura's romantic illusions
are finally crushed.
Set in St Louis in the 1930s, The
Glass Menagerie is one of Tennessee Williams' most wistful and
tender, yet powerful and moving plays. A longing for a gentler time past.
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21st to 26th June 2010 at 7.30pm
(Matinee performance Sat.
26th June at 2.30pm)
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"Lady Windermere's Fan" by
Oscar Wilde
Twenty one year old Lady Windermere prides herself on her virtue and
purity and despises the lack of these qualities in others, so she
outraged when word reaches her that her husband, Lord Windermere, has
begun an unsuitable friendship with Mrs Erlynne, an older woman who
has been ostracised from society due to a disgrace in her earlier
life. When she discovers that the socially and morally questionable
Mrs Erlynne is receiving large sums of money from Lord Windermere,
Lady Windermere is propelled upon a rash course of action which could
result in her undoing.
Witty and 'wildly' stylish, Lady Windermere's Fan was Wilde's first
success on the London stage when it was performed in 1892.
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TBA
The Young Rep present:
A showcase and celebration of
our younger talent
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