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The Freewheelers Theatre Company is a Community Interest Company limited by guarantee, registered in England No 5994867. Reg.Office: P O Box 339 Cobham KT11 9BD

Have you met a non-disabled person who made you feel like you were from a separate world? Have you felt awkward about how to behave when meeting a disabled person?

We want your stories…
The Freewheelers are exploring the meeting point between two worlds that shouldn’t be separate – between disabled people and non-disabled people. And we are researching people’s stories of moments when they were treated by others as being different or separate. Or moments where they suddenly felt awkward, separate or apart.

Please send us your story… It could be in text, video, audio or another creative format. Please also let us know if you are happy for us to feature your story on our web site www.freewheelerstheatre.co.uk We are happy to make them “anonymous” so your name isn’t published. You can upload files at http://www. freewheelerstheatre.co.uk/projects/feedback-form or email kareng@freewheelerstheatre.co.uk

Tickets can be purchased online from mid October.

The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious “Stage Door Slasher”) assemble for a backer’s audition of their new show at the Westchester estate of a wealthy “angel.” The house is replete with sliding panels, secret passageways and a German maid who is apparently four different people—all of which figure diabolically in the comic mayhem which follows when the infamous “Slasher” makes his reappearance and strikes again—and again. As the composer, lyricist, actors and director prepare their performance, and a blizzard cuts off any possible retreat, Bodies start to drop in plain sight, knives spring out of nowhere, masked figures drag their victims behind swiveling bookcases, and accusing fingers point in all directions. However, and with no thanks to the bumbling police inspector who snowshoes in to investigate, the mystery is solved in the nick of time and the “Slasher” unmasked—but not before the audience has been treated to a sidesplitting good time and a generous serving of the author’s biting, satiric and refreshingly irreverent wit.

The show is to be performed at The Nomads 17 – 21 November 2009

Friday 2nd October
Wednesday 7th to Saturday 10th October

at 8pm

Tickets: £11
BOOK ONLINE

The story takes place in 16th century England, but men like Sir Thomas More, who love life yet have the moral fibre to lay down their lives for
their principles, are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of the English Chancellor壮 life, the struggle between More and his King, Henry VIII, hinges on Henrys’ determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his present wife and wed again, and good Catholic More inability to go along with such heresy. More resigns as Chancellor, hoping to be able to live out his life as a private citizen. But Henry will settle for nothing less than that the much respected More give public approval to his headstrong course leading to More inevitable downfall.

Related Information

A Man for All Seasons (Methuen Theatre Classics) (Modern Classics)

Robert Bolt. Methuen Drama 1996, Paperback, 128 pages, £4.65

A Man For All Seasons (Collector’s Edition) [1966] [DVD]

Paul Scofield (Primary Contributor). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 1966, DVD, £2.99

The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol

Public officials who are in denial about their own  incompetence!   Officials who are guilty of fraud, greed or hypocrisy.  Sounds familiar these days!

The Nomads will be performing The Government Inspector at the Nomad Theatre, Bishopsmead Parade, East Horsley from Tuesday to Saturday 10 -14 March at 8pm.

Nikolai Gogol’s comedy was first performed in 1836 in Tsarist Russia, a society supposedly very different from our own.  Yet as one character says,  “He doesn’t pay his bill, he must be a government inspector!”   Change inspector for any one of the people described in the news as those who cheat the system or don’t pay their way and you quickly see the play’s relevance.

The Government Inspector is set in a small town where corruption is a way of life and the Mayor and his cronies live well at the expense of shopkeepers and townspeople.  Their world is turned upside down when they hear that an inspector is coming to report on them.

The characters are preposterous.  The postmistress drinks heavily but also uses the mail as reading material for her leisure hours.  The Director of Education is a pathetic, cringing personality, scared of his own teachers.  The Magistrate is a womaniser but why does he keep geese in the courtroom?  The Health Commissioner has sold the hospital beds and doesn’t believe in using medicine on patients, while the doctor only speaks German throughout.  The Mayor is tyrannical, ambitious, smug and self-serving, yet he has to contend with a wife and daughter as bizarre as any of the other characters.

Into this mix comes a penniless traveller with a talent for fantasy and an eye to the main chance.  Unwittingly at first but with increasing cunning he takes advantage of them all.

Alastair Beaton, one of the writers of Drop the Dead Donkey and Spitting Image, has adapted the play.  He is an award winning writer who has brought his own satirical wit to the task of translating Gogol’s masterpiece.

Director Ian Nichols says, “This is a really wonderful show to work on and I am thoroughly enjoying directing comedy.”

Tickets are 11.00.  Call the box office on 01483 284747 on Saturdays from 10.00 to 12.30 pm.  Leave a message on the answerphone at other times or visit www.nomadtheatre.com.

Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatised, with terrible consequences. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. It’s a message with deep resonance. Robinson’s TEDTalk has been distributed widely around the Web since its release in June 2006. The most popular words framing blog posts on his talk? “Everyone should watch this.”

A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken led the Government’s 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements.

“Ken’s vision and expertise is sought by public and commercial organizations throughout the world.” – BBC Radio 4

Enjoy!

The Element

Ken Robinson. Allen Lane 2009, Hardcover, 288 pages, £14.21

This video is a interview with director Alan Wiseman about the show ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead‘ which opens next week, Tuesday 18th November until the 22nd November. To book or reserve tickets you can ring the Box Office answerphone on 01483 284747.

Also if no one saw the previous blog, unfortunately one of the kids has had to pull out of Annie so were now looking for a boy aged 12 – 14 to play Dillon.

We are also still looking for a Drake (English butler non singing haughty older actor) and a Rooster (singing dancing loud role) anyone know any candidates please let us know.

Well here it is the very first video diary. Most of it was filmed last weekend so in this podcast:

• We take a look in at the first Annie rehearsal and find out how we managed to loose one of our cast before we had started!
• I do an interview with Julian Pindar who has been acting at the Nomads since he was 8 and is now a professional actor heading to the West End in January next year. He talks about how he got into acting from Nomes and some tips he learn’t along the way.

Sorry about the sound and video quality we’ll get it right! Anyone wishing to audition for Molly or work on the Annie crew in our production of Annie please contact us.