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2021 Season

       It’s

         Complicated

                       Rude Awakenings by Nicolas Ridley
        Mother Figure & A Talk in the Park by Alan Ayckbourn

                  17 - 20 November 2021

                    at Incognito Theatre

                             This show has now completed

Rude Awakings by Nicolas 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

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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: 21 November 2021