![]() ![]() “A chap in the bedroom? In need of hairpins?” It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds in February 1892 and quickly transferred to London’s Globe Theatre where it broke the record for the world’s longest-running play, clocking up 1,466 performancesīut although the central conceit is as theatrical and funny as ever, after more than a 120 years, its three-act structure and laboured humour urgently needed a make-over The Nurse’s Rebellion ~ Sandra Fenichel AsherĬharley’s Aunt was a hugely popular vintage farce. ![]() Beatriz … If You Speak of Love ~ David Nice.Another Conversation ~ Marjorie Bicknell.The result is a unique full-length theatrical experience offering great roles for womenĪnd also opportunities for thoughtful scene study, opening a larger conversation about how these women’s stories still resonate in our lives Here, the female characters boldly step outside of the male-dominated context of their original works, sometimes into another time and place, where they discuss the choices they made and how they navigated the power structures that controlled their lives Women who have had muted voices in the Bard’s playsīut in As She Likes It they take center stage Luckily they’re coached by the mysterious Mr Nutt – no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr NuttĪs the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed foreverīecause the thing about football the important thing about football is that it is not just about footballĪs She Likes It is an anthology of 8 short plays featuring famous and familiar women from Shakespeare’s canon Until a Dimwell fan falls for a Dolly Sisters girlĪnd now an ancient bequest means the Wizards of Unseen University must win a football match ‘Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Ankh-Morpork, where we lay our scene’Įach area has its own team and rivalry means supporters never mix The Rince Cycle is mostly based on The Light Fantastic, with bits of The Colour of Magic and Sourcery added for good measure With him, and with Bethan (a qualified sacrificial victim), they encounter druids, trolls, adventurers, a hairdresser and a power-crazed wizardĪnd did we mention that Rincewind also has to save the world from destruction by a huge Red Star destined to collide with the Discworld at Hogswatch? In a city teeming with vampires, werewolves, dwarfs with attitude and golems, Vimes must solve the crimes and save the Patrician.Īs a punishment, failed wizard Rincewind is given the task of guiding and safeguarding the Disc’s first tourist, Twoflower (with his magical luggage on legs)Īs they travel the city and beyond, they meet the world’s oldest hero, Cohen the Barbarian He and his team must question everyone the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker No one knows who, no one knows why and, worst of all, no one knows how he just gets weaker and weakerĪcross the city, people are being murdered, but there’s no trace of anything alive having been at the crime sceneĬommander Vimes, Head of the City Watch, is a man who hates ‘clues’ Someone is killing Lord Vetinari, Patrician of Ankh-Morpork Stephen Briggs skillfully brings Terry Pratchett’s Discworld to the Stage The Constable character from the workhouse then haunts Scrooge and appears every time he chooses money over humanity. Unique to this adaptation, playwright Gary Own fills in the missing details in Scrooge’s background to explain his miserliness: how he was sent to a workhouse as a boy, starved, beaten and nearly worked to death. This adaptation and the large size of the cast make it the perfect edition for the thousands of school performances which are held across the country each year during the holiday season. This adaptation is not the stuffy stereotype of Victorian England but is unconventionally humorous, gritty and not at all tame in confronting poverty, greed and issues of unfairness in society: themes that will strikingly resonate with modern audiences. ![]() This is the first play adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel from an award-winning playwright who remains close to the original text but significantly updates the humor and fleshes out in spoken dialogue many of the important character passages from the book. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens adapted by Gary Owen ![]()
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