FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Directed by Alex Wakelam
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The King is dead, long live the King! Let's eat.
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Peace has broken out at last in England, and good King Edward, victorious at last, invites you all to dinner. Just hand your coats to our master of ceremonies, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. But there are rumours that Edward is not well and rumblings are abroad he is more interested in the servants than the administration of the state. Perhaps a more suitable ruler lies waiting in the wings, and, as guests drop dead before the soup has made its entrance, the number of candidates for the English crown narrows with each course.
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'Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions.
Can I do all this, and cannot get a crown?'
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Tuesday 13th - Saturday 17th May
Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre
Cold Comfort Farm by Paul Doust, adapted from Stella Gibbons' novel
Directed by Anna Parker
Tuesday 12th - Saturday 16th August
Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre
​​Think D H Lawrence and primal urges, Bronte brooding on the moors, with a good pinch of Evelyn Waugh. The novel is an affectionate satire of 1930s rural bodice ripping novels with literary references.
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Well educated but poor, Flora, orphaned in her 20s, is homeless. She goes to her relatives, the Starkadder family of Cold Comfort farm, in the rural ghastliness of... Sussex.
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Liking everything to be tidy, she sets about tidying her dysfunctional family: seemingly insane matriarch Aunt Ada, who saw ‘something narsty in the woodshed’ as a child, beautiful Elfine, who roams the hills writing poetry, Uncle Amos, who leads the religious cult of ‘The Quivering Brethren’ (and sisters), Rennet who throws herself in a well whenever 'Mark' is mentioned, let alone Cousin Judith’s obsession with her son Seth, who is lustily obsessed with his own gorgeousness.​
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