Directed by Stephen Whittock and running from Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 November.
The villagers in Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local paper:
A murder is announced and will take place on October 13th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm. Friends accept this, the only intimation.
A childish practical joke? [...]
Laughter does something special to people and we laughed a LOT through the Friday evening performance of Cranford. Mrs Gaskell has a brilliant way of making us look at ourselves and for our rejection of people for ”bad• manners. In the case of Mr Holbrook, having eaten peas from a knife was never again acceptable [...]
( First Night)
It was a wobbly start, giving credence to the final theatrical rush conveyed by the script.
A beautifully sung solo by the Wardrobe Lady (Tracey Gillard) and the choral piece filled the stage with promise of liveliness and energy that became a feature of the show as it progressed.
Opening night is always [...]
Studio Secrets
by Rachel Barnett
This year Play in a Week has been written by Rachel Barnett, she is taking us into the world of film, A romp through 100 years of the history of film, shed a tear with a silent film star, gasp at the drama of a Western high noon, sing along to a [...]
Honk Jr.
1 July 7.30pm, 2 July 2.30pm & 7.30pm, 3 July 2.30pm Tickets £10
At length one shell cracked and then another, and from each egg came a living creature that lifted its head and cried, “Quack, quack,”. . . . . . . . Come and enjoy the musical adventure of The Ugly Duckling and [...]
Flipside is a small dance school in Cobham and this show is its annual dance event.
Flipside dance school welcomes you along to a performance full of exciting and colourful dance performed by students aged 5-18 years, dancing all styles of dance from Ballet to Hip Hop to Lyrical to Tap to Jazz to Indian Funk.
The [...]
By Helen Mills SE Area NODA Rep
Adapted from the Novel by H G Wells
I was very much looking forward to coming and seeing this new play written and directed by the author. Alan has, as he admits, fifty years experience in the theatre but this is a new venture for him which I hope he [...]
Production Dates: 17 – 21 May – at 8.00pm
Inhabited mainly by the fairer sex, the community of Cranford thrives on mutual support and gossip. The sheltered peace of gentility is threatened by financial disaster, imagined burglaries and the ever present intricacies of social etiquette that dominates daily life.
Made popular by the BBC’s adaptation, the non-stop [...]
by Topaz Musical Theatre
Friday 4th & Saturday 5th February 2011
S‘Wonderful celebrates the great works of Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, four of the most talented composers of popular music in the mid 20th century and highlights some of their best known songs in a fully staged musical revue, taking time for [...]
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of William Shakespeare‘s The Taming of the Shrew. It proved to be his biggest hit and the only one of his shows to run for more than 1,000 performances [...]
