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Audition: Theft
Audition Notice: Theft
by Eric Chappell
Directed by Jeffry Wightwick
Audition Date Tuesday 4th November at 7.30pm
Production Dates: 24th to 28th Feb 2026
If you would like to audition please email Moyra on [email protected]. If you are interested in auditioning but cannot make the date please email us so we can arrange to see you.
Synopsis:
Imagine returning home from a pleasant anniversary celebration to discover your house has been burgled. In this thriller, the culprit is still in the house,and for a while, he convinces the returning couples he is a policeman. Unmasked, as the thief, Spriggs reveals a number of uncomfortable truths that disrupt two seemingly happy marriages and one formerly strong friendship.
Characters:
Married couples playing ages late 40-50’s
Trevor Farrington
John Miles
Jenny Farrington
Barbara Miles
Spriggs playing age 50’s
This amateur production of “Theft” is presented in association with Concord Theatricals Ltd on behald of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
Experience the Magic of Theatre at our Open Day
Experience The Magic of Theatre at our Open Day
Come along on 7th Feb with tours at Midday, 2pm and 4pm
Tours are free to attend but please book a space on the tour
During the tour you will be able to get hands on with lighting , Sound and Video. The stage revolve will be in action and there will be displays of props and costumes.
Many of the effects from the Panto will be there to see and learn about. You’ll learn about the history of the theatre and the bar will be open
The Telling & Blue Fire Theatre Co Present: Practically Imperfect
The Telling & Blue Fire Theatre Co Present: Practically Imperfect
Friday 13th March at 7.30pm
Tickets : £18.00
Award-winning music and theatre company, The Telling and Blue Fire Theatre Co present Practically Imperfect, a play with music by award-winning writer Clare Norburn and BAFTA-nominated BBC director, Nicholas Renton (Mrs Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters, Musketeers, Lewis).
The very private PL Travers lives quietly in Chelsea. Out of the blue, her very own creation, Mary Poppins, suddenly appears in Travers’ study, asking difficult questions Travers would rather not answer. Rather than the Banks family, Mary Poppins has come to sort out the acerbic PL Travers herself. But Travers is a force to be reckoned with too. So who will control the narrative and win the battle of wills?
The fun-filled chaos is soundtracked by the kind of music PL Travers really wanted in the Mary Poppins film (Edwardian songs such as Lily of Laguna). Starring acclaimed actor Lottie Walker as PL Travers and actor-musician Joanna Brown as Mary Poppins.
“finds new terrain” – The Guardian
Supported by the Sylvia Waddilove Foundation.
Guildburys Theatre Company Present: Cold Comfort Farm
Guildburys Theatre Company Present: Cold Comfort Farm adapted by Paul Doust from the novel by Stella Gibbons
Wednesday 25th – Saturday 28th March at 7.30pm
Tickets : £21. U18 concession £17.50
Following their hugely successful production of Hangmen at Nomads, Guildburys Theatre Company return with this witty and wild comedy.
When sensible, sophisticated London living Flora Poste is orphaned, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders.
They are a crazy bunch, but Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people and she resolves to take each of the family in hand and bring order to her chaotic dysfunctional family.
Can she succeed? Join us at Cold Comfort Farm and find out!
See the trailer here
Book online here
This amateur production of Cold Comfort Farm is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd
Audition: The Taming of the Shrew
Audition Notice: The Taming of the Shrew
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Elaine Burns
Audition Dates Mon 26th and Thurs 29th Jan at 7.30pm
Performance Dates: Tues 8th to Sat 13th June
If you are interested please email Eliane on [email protected]
If you are interested but cannot make the dates please email Elaine so we can arrange to see you on a different date.
Synopsis:
This play is a well-structured farce and is actually funny. Baptista a wealthy citizen of Padua needs to find husbands for his two daughters. Shakespeare wrote the play in 1590 so that’s how things were. But Katherine is bad-tempered and angry at the world, a shrew. So no-one wants to marry her. Bianca is modest and sweet-tempered. So Baptista declares that Katherine must be married before he will allow anyone to ask for Bianca. All the action follows from this moment. Costumes will be modern dress and many wordy speeches have been edited. Petruchio and Katherine are played as written.
Cast
Baptista father of Katherine and Bianca 40+
Katherine eldest daughter, bad tempered, a shrew
Bianca younger daughter, appears compliant and modest
Petruchio alpha male charismatic and loud
Grumio his longtime servant, makes asides to audience
Curtis servant based at his house Act 4 only
Gremio suitor for Bianca, elderly, tricked by others
Hortensio another suitor, friend of Petruchio. He pretends to be a tutor to Bianca
Lucentio another suitor,
Tranio Lucentio’s servant, clever. Swaps clothes with Lucentio and pretends to be him while Lucentio pretends to be a tutor for Bianca
Another servant Biondello is younger
Tailor/haberdasher presents new clothes to Katherine
Pedant/merchant tricked into playing Vincentio, Lucentio’s father in Act 4&5 very funny role
Vincentio Lucentio’s father, Act 5 only but a strong role.
Widow, marries Hortensio final scene only
The widow and Curtis can be played by the same person
Biondello can be played by a female as a young man
Tailor/Haberdasher will be played by a female
Tranio could be played by a female