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What's On
2021 Season
It’s
Complicated
Rude Awakening by Nicholas Ridley
Mother Figure & A Talk in the Park by Alan Ayckbourn
17 - 20 November 2021
at Incognito Theatre
Tickets £14.00 | On-line Ticket Sales £12.00
Rude Awaking by Nicholas Ridley
Everything
normally runs so smoothly at the Little Gissing Art Group’s ‘Annual Exhibition
and Competition’ in the Village Hall but this year it’s all going wrong. There
are mishaps, misunderstandings, all sorts of complications and some really very
shocking revelations!
Cast
Astrid - Ida Ivanoff
Pauline - Rosie Fiore
Olivia - Samantha Charles
Harriet - Lynn Fidler
Directed by Robert Alderman
Mother Figure by Alan Ayckbourn
House-bound Lucy is a mother who rarely sees her husband and barely bothers to look after herself as she her life is centred on her three children. Rosemary and Terry come round with news that her husband has been calling and is worried at not getting a response. So used to dealing with nothing but children, Lucy proceeds to treat her visitors likewise. The consequences are both comic and tragic.
Cast
Lucy - Alex Charalambous
Rosemary - Mary Groom
Terry - Guy Muneesamy
A Talk in the Park by Alan Ayckbourn
Five people and four park benches. In turn, each
unburdens what is uppermost in their life until the person next to them is
forced to move to the next bench This turns into a round as each person tries
to get the attention they seek. In the end 'you might as well talk to yourself.'
Cast
Arthur - John Struthers
Beryl - Alex Charalambous
Charlie - Guy Muneesamy
Doreen - Mary Groom
Ernest - Omer Warman
2022 Season
'Cranford' by Elizabeth Gaskell
adapted by Robert Alderman
Performances in London, early July 2022, and
The Minack Theatre, on the cliffs at Porthcurno, Cornwall,
5-8 September 2022
Robert Alderman has written and is directing an original adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, which will be performed in London in July 2022 and at the stunning Minack Theatre, on the cliffs at Porthcurno, Penzance in Cornwall in September 2022.
In Cranford the idiosyncratic but endearing ladies hope to preserve their gentility, lifestyle and social customs from change. They combat the changing world around them. Chief among the setters of norms and customs are the Jenkyns sisters, Miss Deborah and Miss Matty, who are challenged when Captain Brown comes to town with his more worldly approach to life. At the same time Dr Frank Harrison arrives to assist Dr Hoggins but ends up opposing the older doctor who is set in his ways. The unmarried ladies of the town vie for his affections but his heart is set on Sophy Hutton, the vicar's daughter.
The tranquillity of the town is disturbed by tragedy, blooming romance and comic mishaps.
Cast
Deborah Jenkyns/ Lady Glenmire Liz Kogan
Mathilda Jenkyns Margaret Johnson
Mary Smith Mary Crabtree
Dr Frank Harrison Matthew Pert
Dr Hoggins Colin Joseph
Miss Pole Lynn Fidler
Mrs Forrester Carol Wakefield
Mrs Jamison Kate Salinger
Miss Tomkinson Cathy Love
Caroline Tomkinson Clare Janew
Sophy Hutton Naomi Smallwood
Revd. Hutton/Johnson Geoff Prutton
Captain Brown Adam Baxter
Jessie Brown Caroline Knell
Mrs Rose Samantha Charles
Martha Emily Carmichael
Jem Hearn Edwin Coutts
Peggy/Mrs Brunoni Mary Groom
Holbrook/Muliner/Roberts John Savage
Dr Jack Marshland/
Sedan Chair Carrier 1/Workman 1 To be confirmed
Major Gordon/Peter Jenkyns
Sedan Chair Carrier 2/Workman 2 Pete Franklyn
Last updated: 13 October 2021
