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The Cracked Pot
by Blake Morrison
translated & adapted from Heinrich von Kleist's comedy
directed by Dorothy Heathcote
27th, 28th & 29th April 2006
It is the year 1810 (five years after Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar),
when King George III warns us that the enemy is about to invade Britain - as
when Winston Churchill warned our people of the dangers of invasion early
in World War II.
The action of the play takes place in Skipton County Court and in our production
we invite you our audience to be present in court as you take your seats to witness
the case of;
Martha Rudd v Leslie Dixon
Regarding a Cracked Pot
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Charlotte Bronte's
Jane Eyre
adapted for the stage by Willis Hall
directed by Corinne Eyre
28th, 29th & 30th September 2006
Whilst having retained all the familiar passionate qualities of Bronte's novel,
Willis Hall has managed, with minimum of fuss, to successfully transpose the
nineteenth century world of Jane Eyre to the stage.
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by Mary O'Malley
directed by Marie Stone
19th, 20th & 21st April 2007
'I've told you before,' says Mary to her boyfriend, Derek, when he dares to
suggest a register office wedding. 'It's once a Catholic always a Catholic and
that's all there is to it'. It is the mid-1950's and the setting is North London.
In this wonderfully funny and affectionate comedy Mary McGinty and her
friends, Mary Gallagher and Mary Mooney (and all the other Marys in form
5A at the Convent of Our Lady of Fatima) are getting to grips with O-Levels,
sex, religion and rock 'n' roll.
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And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
directed by Jonathan Leach
20th, 21st & 22nd September 2007
Ten people are invited to a lonely Mansion on the remote Soldier Island.
Though they all have something in their past which they wish to hide, they
arrive cheerfully on a summers evening. But things take a very sinister turn.
Soon a series of extraordinary events take place ... the island is suddenly
bathed in a stragely macabre light ... panic grips the visitors one by one.
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dramatised by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
directed by Vicky Colclough
8th, 9th & 10th May 2008
The captivating story of a thirteen year old girl and her family. Hidden away
in a sealed off back room of an Amsterdam office during the Second World War,
when the Nazi invaders intensified thir persecution of the jews.
The strains of her usual life, the problems of her unfolding womanhood,
falling in love, her unswerving faith in her religion and the shining nobility
of her spirit.
The Diary of Anne Frank is a story of human spirit - the intimate and courageous
account of a young woman's unique experience in the face of terrible persecution.
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by Brandon Thomas
directed by Richard Astle
9th, 10th & 11th October 2008
A comedy in three acts and a dress!
The year is 1892 and college friends Jack Chesney and Charles Wykeham are
courting young ladies, Kitty and Amy.
The arrival of Charles' wealthy aunt, from Brazil, provides an excuse for their
young ladies to visit. At the last minute, the aunt is delayed so they hastily
persuade their friend Babbs to impersonate her, since a chaperone must be
present. All goes well until Jack's father takes rather a shine to the 'aunt',
as does Amy's uncle. Enter the REAL Charley's Aunt and things begin to get
a little bit out of hand ...!
The world famous farce is a sparkling comedy of Victorian manners that has
moved millions to tears of laughter, both on stage and screen.
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by Simon Williams
directed by John Lambert
7th, 8th & 9th May 2009
Margot Buchanan, a very wealthy ex-actress living in a retirement home,
is trying to forget it's her seventieth birthday. While all the rest around her
are intent on celebrating it, even Freda, her psychic friend who talks to
ghosts and is deep in her jigsaw puzzle of The Full Monty.
Margot and her ex-husband, Sir Leo Buchanan, were famous in the sixties for
their portrayal of Romeo and Juliet. For this reason Margot is visited by
Sadie Croft who is going to play Juliet (and is also having an affair with Leo!).
They are interrupted by the arrival of Lady Judy Buchanan (Leo's current wife
and the one who caused the break up of Margot's marriage to Leo!).
Leo arrives in hiding from a reporter and suffers a fatal heart attack! Thus
setting the scene for chaos and hilarity as Leo's ghost appears but only
visible to Freda!!
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Fur Coat & No Knickers
by Mike Harding
directed by Corinne Eyre & Jane Bailey
8th, 9th & 10th October 2009
This hilarious play centres around the wedding of Deirdre Ollerenshawe and
Mark Greenhalgh. The fun begins on Mark's stag night, which almost ends
in disaster when a very drunk Mark is found chained to a lamppost with a
blow-up rubber doll purloined from a night-club.
As Mark is the son of Councillor Greenhalgh, however, the police let him off.
The wedding day itself turns out to be rather a disaster too, with half the
guests (including the priest) suffering from blinding hangovers, and the play
ends in chaos when Father Molloy, once again paralytically drunk, stumbles in
on the reception clad only in his ecclesiastical underwear and brandishing
the blow-up doll!!
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Black Widow
by Paul Thain
directed by Vicky Colclough
29th, 30th April & 1st May 2010
Lord Arlington is dead, poisoned by a corned beef sandwich.
His daughter Emily, obsessed by Hamlet, becomes convinced that her mother
Cressida and old family friend Richard Harker are responsible for Lord Arlington's
death, and she sets out to extract revenge.
Madness, murder, passion, ghosts and retribution are all themes of this complex
and compelling drama.
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It Runs in the Family
by Ray Cooney
directed by Corinne Eyre & Marie Stone
7th, 8th & 9th October 2010
Dr David Mortimore is about to address a neurologists' convention, which will
probably earn him a knighthood.
While putting the final touches to his speech an old flame, Jane tate, arrives and
announces that their liaison years ago resulted in a son, Leslie who is downstairs
desperate to meet his dad.
Frantic to hide this catastrophic news from his wife and the hospital authorities,
David is forced to invent not one but two non-existent husbands for Jane and enlist
the help of his colleague Hubert Bonney. Events are further complicated by the
presence of a police sergeant, a wandering senile patient, an assortment of matrons
(real and otherwise), a syringe full of tranquillizer and the costumes for the
hospital pantomime!
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