Canterbury Tales
by GEOFFERY CHAUCER, adapted by GORDON VALLINS.
Directed by Chris Carpenter
Performance dates 18 - 23 October 2010
Audition Sunday 25 April at 10.30 a.m. (10.15 a.m. for tea/coffee, introductions)
Many years ago..I was lucky enough to be a member of the cast for the production that the Loft took up to the Edinburgh festival. It's a glorious romp, involving all the usual elements - bums out of windows, magic, jealous husbands, witches, death and damnation, music, a vain cockerel, randy students etc etc..In short, it's great fun - for cast and audience alike. For Chaucer Aficionados the following Tales are performed:
The Miller's Tale,
The Pardoner's Tale,
The Nun's Priest's Tale,
The Reeve's Tale,
The Wife of Bath's Tale.
There is also a Prologue, some music/songs and various other bits of biz... I cannot really stipulate characters, or parts, as it is very much a company piece and everyone will be playing several parts (including chickens). Musical ability (even if it's just spoons/kazoo/recorder etc) and the willingness to have a go at more or less anything will be paramount. I envisage a company of about 8/9 people which will need a couple of young men and a couple of young women (playing age 20s? 30s,?) one older woman (40s playing age) and one older man (able to play 60's). The others ideally, somewhere between the 2 extremes..
No scripts are available at present but should be by the next issue of this illustrious organ and absolutely no parts have been pre-cast.
Please phone me or email if you would like to find out more, or to express an interest.
Chris Carpenter (01926 856282) chrissiecarpenter@googlemail.com

Bedroom Farce
By ALAN AYCKBOURN
Directed by Ann Brooks
Performance dates 15 - 20 November 2010
Audition Sunday 25 April at 10.30 a.m. (10.15 a.m. for tea/coffee, introductions)
In this revelation of the middle classes at home, Ayckbourn shows us four couples who are preparing for a night of celebration. The oldest couple, Delia and Ernest, are getting ready to celebrate their wedding anniversary with a meal at their favourite restaurant. The youngest couple, Kate and Malcolm are preparing a house-warming party at their new house to which Jan and Nick and Susannah and Trevor have been invited. Intriguing links amongst all the couples result in a surprising and hectic night, often verging on farce.
“Ayckbourn gets to the heart of the English character with a merciless precision that Chekhov might have envied. He is continually brilliant on English embarrassment about sex, on the inarticulate clumsiness of the average English husband, and the lurking dissatisfaction of the average English wife. A master class in comedy at it’s finest.”
(with acknowledgements to Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph Theatre Critic). Characters:
DELIA 50s /60s
ERNEST 60s
KATE 20s
MALCOLM 20s
NICK 30s /40s
JAN 30s /40s
SUSANNAH 30s /40s
TREVOR 30s /40s
A convincing age on the stage is what matters!
Please phone or e-mail for further information and reading copies.
Tel: 02476 415154 or dameanna2004@aol.com.


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