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'The Titfield
Thunderbolt'
an adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy by Philip
Goulding
All aboard for a rollicking evening of hilarious nostalgia! The branch
line between Mallingford and Titfield is losing money
and British Rail is intent on closing it down. In desperation the villagers exploit the 1947
Transport Act and decide to take charge and run it themselves - with a train resurrected from a
local museum! As well as convincing the railway authorities that they are competent to work the
line, they are up against Vernon Crump who is set on providing a competitive bus service. An
adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy - nostalgia at its best
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Electric Theatre 01483-444789
17 - 20 March 2010
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See auditions
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'The Taming of the Shrew
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by William
Shakespeare
Shakespeare's famous tale of the Battle of the Sexes has proved enduringly popular
on stage and screen. Written in the form of a play-within-a-play, the stormy relationship
between the colourfully eccentric Petruchio and his scornful and unwilling bride Katharina is
a boisterous and farcical comedy that barely stops for breath. Throw in an
oh-so-innocent sister who is not quite as demure as she seems, a beleaguered father, a
handful of hopeless suitors and any number of servants of varying degrees of wiliness,
servility and clumsiness and you have all the ingredients of a terrific evening's
entertainment. Oh, and there's the drunken layabout who is tricked into thinking he is a fine
lord. Shakespeare's comic inventiveness knows no bounds and this new adaptation will have all
the colour, pace and fun for which Guildbury shows at Farnham Castle are renowned.
Farnham Castle July 14 -17 2010.
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Audition dates to be announced
For advance information please contact the director, Rob Sheppard at
robsheppard0@googlemail.com
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'Private Fears in Public
Places'
by Alan Ayckbourn
Ayckbourn says
the theme of his emotionally-knotted play is the knock-on effect that our individual actions have
upon another person, sometimes a complete stranger.
"We may not even be aware of this," he says. "Nonetheless, we are all of us linked; we are all
related. And whether we like it or not, none of us can truly stand alone or indeed remain aloof or
immune."
He sets the play in London, the metropolis where loneliness can feel heightened, as the dodgem cars
on life's highway go about their speeding business all around you. He presents five initially
lifeless settings; Some are private, others are public, and fears will be exposed in all of
them.
This is a slow-burning psycho-drama, with no interval to interrupt the flow,the comedy is
discomfiting and the characters empathetic.
(Yorkshire
Evening Press, 18 August 2004)
Electric Theatre 24 - 27 November 2010.
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