SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, by Oliver Goldsmith, will be the summer production, a brilliant and very well-known play with a splendid cast of characters. the director will be Lydia Milman Schmidt, introduced to us by Laura Baggaley, our Director Emeritus, who directed The Winter’s Tale for us in 2007 and Twelfth Night in 2009.
Auditions will be on 25th & 26th February. Please contact Peter Saunders on 850245 to arrange an audition.
By popular demand the always popular Music Quiz returns once again on Saturday 19th November. Small teams of six or larger teams of up to ten may enter.
Tickets on sale now from Blewbury Post Office.
Troy Boy - A Comic take on La Belle Helene
Directed by Kit Hesketh-Harvey
Wallingford Corn Exchange Saturday 10 Sep 7.45pm
Stuck in suburbia the beautiful Helen’s fed up with her ridiculously boring husband, Menelaus. However, she really is trying to be good. But what can you do when the gods have other ideas and there’s a handsome young man waiting to whisk you away on an adventure?
Kit Hesketh-Harvey directs a cast that includes Myvanwy Bentall, Laura Casey, Rosie Coad, Christopher Diffey, Adriana Festeu, Anthony Flaum, Sam Furness, Marcin Gesla, Stephen Holloway, David Menezes, Joseph Morgan, Georgina Murray, Matthew Quirk and Emily-Jane Thomas. Music Director is Stephen Hose.
The Merry Opera Company has been created to open a door for people who find opera hard to access and understand, building on founder Matthew Quirk’s experience with Unexpected Opera (The Barber of Savile Row, Orpheus Down Under).
The Sinodun Players present
The Devil’s Gateway
by Sarah Daniels
Wallingford Corn Exchange Wednesday 12th – Saturday 15th October 7.45pm
It’s the 1980s and the world is changing. A new one is struggling to free itself from the old, Reagan and Thatcher are facing off against Brezhnev and women are on the march: cue laughs, warmth and an entertaining look into our past.
The Devil’s Gateway takes these huge themes and plants them in the living room where real people try to deal with them. Playwright Sarah Daniels finds the humour and humanity in what was a joint battle of the bombs and the sexes.
At its heart The Devil’s Gateway is about how mothers and daughters come to terms with each other and the new world they’re entering. It will make you laugh and cry and sometimes both at the same time.
We see housewife Betty wanting more than her traditional role. And her poor husband Jim, rooted in the 1950s, thinking the way to make her happy is to equip her with a new kitchen: No Jim!
All of this is played out against the unseen but ever present background of the Greenham Common protest movement.
See The Corn Exchange website for booking details.
Under Milk Wood
Village Hall
30-31 March 2012
She Stoops to Conquer
Orchard Dene
18-21 July 2012
