FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Cold Comfort Farm by Paul Doust, adapted from Stella Gibbons's 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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This amateur production of “Cold Comfort Farm” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
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Hands Across the Sea, Red Peppers & Still Life
from Tonight at 8:30 by Noël Coward
Directed by Rachel Walter
Tuesday 4th - Saturday 8th November
Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre
​​'The theatre is a wonderful place, house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion.'
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In 1936, renowned wit, dramatist and erstwhile star of The Italian Job, Noël Coward, debuted his cycle of ten one-act plays, collectively Tonight at 8:30. With three plays performed each night, audiences were treated to a full range of theatrical experience, peppered with music, drama and an abundance of hilarious misunderstandings.
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Carlton presents (at 7:45) a triple-bill of: Hands across the Sea, a domestic comedy on the social obliviousness of the upper classes; Red Peppers, a musical interlude from the backstage of a music hall; and Still Life, a drama of forbidden love (best known as the inspiration for the film Brief Encounter).
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The martinis have been poured, the pianist is in full flow, and the cast are waiting in the wings. Welcome to our house of strange enchantment.
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This amateur production of “Hands Across the Sea, Red Peppers & Still Life” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
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