2019 SUMMER Season
The Importance of Being Earnest
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Can't Pay? Won't Pay!
The Lady from the Sea
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Can't Pay? Won't Pay!
The Lady from the Sea
the importance of being earnest
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By Oscar Wilde
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds 5 - 8 June 2019 Director - Chris Lines ‘To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.’ Wilde’s famous comedy of wit and manners is the story of a lost child and of men with fake friends they use as excuses to get out of dull engagements. Add two young ladies looking for love, and a mother, the formidable Lady Bracknell, who wants only the best for her daughter. Also a governess with a secret and you have the most timeless of comedies. Oh, and there’s that handbag… Will Cecily and Gwendolen obtain the men of their dreams or will a mother, a name, or a governess’s revelations put paid to their hopes of happiness? ‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple’. |
A midsummer night's dream
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By William Shakespeare
Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds 9 - 13 July 2019 Director - Tim Lodge Shakespeare’s greatest comedy of mortals, fairies and ‘rude mechanicals’. A hugely entertaining drama performed, of course, in the ‘original’ late C16th style with Elizabethan music and dance. Best enjoyed with family, friends and a glass of something in the sunshine… Our 8th outdoor Shakespeare production, now a regular and much loved feature of the West Suffolk activities calendar. Bring a picnic and enjoy classic Shakespeare in beautiful surroundings. 'Lord, what fools these morals be!' |
2019-2020 Season
More productions to be announced soon!
cAN'T pAY? won't pAY!
By Dario Fo
Unitarian Meeting House, Churchgate, Bury St Edmunds
26, 27 & 28 September 2019
Director - Chris Lines
Employing the comedic methods of the ancient commedia dell'arte, Fo's Can't Pay Won't Pay takes on the issue of economic crisis and job redundancies. A theme relevant both in the 1970s and today. Pushed to the limit by the situation Margherita leads a revolt at the local supermarket through which looting guts the building. Margherita, and her friend Antonia, then try desperately to hide their 'liberated' goods before their husbands and the police catch up with them in a wild farce that may give you ideas about alternative diets on a low budget. Anyone for bird seed?
Unitarian Meeting House, Churchgate, Bury St Edmunds
26, 27 & 28 September 2019
Director - Chris Lines
Employing the comedic methods of the ancient commedia dell'arte, Fo's Can't Pay Won't Pay takes on the issue of economic crisis and job redundancies. A theme relevant both in the 1970s and today. Pushed to the limit by the situation Margherita leads a revolt at the local supermarket through which looting guts the building. Margherita, and her friend Antonia, then try desperately to hide their 'liberated' goods before their husbands and the police catch up with them in a wild farce that may give you ideas about alternative diets on a low budget. Anyone for bird seed?
THE LADY FROM THE SEA
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By Henrik Ibsen
Unitarian Meeting House, Churchgate, Bury St Edmunds 7, 8, 9 November 2019 Director - Tim Lodge Mercurial, distracted and restless, Ellida feels desperately trapped in her marriage. She yearns for the sea and a broader horizon, for the furthest reaches of freedom, for an experience that is both liberating and dangerously self-destructive. When a former lover returns from years of absence she is forced to decide between freedom and a new life she could make for herself. |