REVIEW: Run for Your Wife, Sway Drama Club, Sway Village Hall
Sway’s Village Hall is a charming venue for this Ray Cooney farce, directed by John James.
Sway’s Village Hall is a charming venue for this Ray Cooney farce, directed by John James.
SHOWSTOPPERS brings Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s complex mash-up of Grimm fairy tales triumphantly to life, with a fine band providing the music (chief nusical directors Charlie Taylor and Gem Tunley, who also conducts) and a very capable cast, each of whom adds endearing traits to the often well-known characters they portray.
ARTHUR Miller’s drama – based on the Salem witch trials and a powerful depiction of suspicion, hysteria and political bullying – still grips in this production.
It’s a pleasure to see the Old Benny back in operation, known since May 20, 2010, as Groundlings theatre, drama school and much more.
Antoine Verdoux’s classic farce is presented here by director, translator and sound designer Paul King as a fluffy combination including Commedia dell Arte and silent movie styles, with well incorporated French music that the cast bounces along to.
A HAMPSHIRE amateur dramatic group has raised £300 for charity in memory of two members.
This plush, fun production of Agatha Christie’s story features a very handsome set (designed by director Colin Hayman, Frea Nunn and Kevin Murdoch) and lovely costumes (Pam Hannan and Rae Owen) that reflect a 1940s setting and starts with a lighting effect (designed by Joel Powney) that suggests a black and white film screening, so the series of murders we witness is enveloped in the warm nostalgic glow one expects from Christie.
THE programme for this production of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop show says it is “as performed by the staff and clients of ‘The Happy Haven Home for the Elderly’” – a slightly odd framing device for this familiar collection of songs, sketches, speeches and scenes from the First World War, which seems to be director Paul King’s way of explaining the shortage of authentically young men in the cast when, as the archive photos displayed on a screen above the stage show, so many who fought and died were really just boys.
THIS production of Dennis Potter’s short play begins with adult characters silently surveying their wartime childhood ‘playground’, the Forest of Dean and in this way director John O’Hanlon (his first production for TFT) hints at the way early childhood dramas overshadow later life.
JOHN Piemeier’s 1979 play is a gripping drama, in which psychiatrist Dr Martha Livingstone (Emma Portlock) comes to a convent to investigate how a young nun, Agnes (Jennifer Hampton) gave birth and how the baby died. She also has to come to terms with Mother Miriam Ruth (Merial Shepherd), who has her own version of the truth.
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