The cast of The Dresser, Quay Theatre, January 2026
Our Next Production
Rehearsed reading of
An Enemy of the People
by Henrik Ibsen
United Reformed Church Hall
21 March 2026
​​​Discover one of the world's greatest playwrights in the relaxed atmosphere of a rehearsed reading. Ever felt you were going mad because everyone around you couldn't see something that was so very obvious to you? Ibsen's masterpiece of 1882 is as relevant today as ever, perhaps more so...
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Tickets available here...
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By the way, there'll be tea and cake!
Play Reading at the URC, Whiting Street
Next fortnightly play reading Monday 23 February. Starts 7.30 pm. £3.50 charge for room hire. All welcome, members and none members alike! Refreshments will be served.
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Review of 'The Dresser'
HALSTEAD GAZETTE (CURTAIN CALL)
The Dresser demands much from its cast. Bury Theatre Workshop met them superbly, at Sudbury’s Quay Theatre.
Tim Lodge was faultless, as fading but fabulously-voiced actor, Sir. Pelham Elliott, his nasally-drawling dresser, Norman, was spot-on too. Vocally, they projected well, their physical action was incredible. How many times, I wondered, had Tim practised putting on his full-face make up towards the audience or Pelham layering him in a magnificent array of Costumes?
This reputable Company was well able to fill the requisite cameo roles; Andrew Smith, Deborah Paredes and Rebecca Hannah especially. Her Ladyship, Susan Beaumont, “came into her own” in Act Two.
According to the programme, this production was Tim’s labour of love, supported by Pelham and drawn together by Director, Julia Frazier, it showed. Bravo!
Props and Costume
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