Sewell
Barn 2011
- 2012 Season
• The Long and the Short and the Tall
by Willis Hall, directed byMichelle Montague,
7.30pm 13-15 &19-22 October 2011.
Matinée 2.30pm 22 October
Set during the Battle of Malaya in 1942, The Long and The Short and The
Tall graphically tells a tale of human spirit faced with impending doom
in a war-torn environment.
A patrol of 7 British soldiers take refuge in an abandoned hut. Tensions
rise as the radio malfunctions and a Japanese soldier stumbles upon them.
Willis Hall’s ear for language and eye for natural human behaviour
ignites a dramatic conflict of conscience among the men in a bid to survive.
This action packed, often humorous, suspense-laden play is set to make
audiences ponder on the glorification of war in our modern day society.
• Entertaining Angels
by Richard Everett, directed by Mike Dunne,
7.30pm 1-3 & 7-10 December 2011.
Matinée 2.30pm 10 December
As a vicar's wife Grace has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour.
Now, following the death of her husband, Bardolph, she is enjoying
the new-found freedom to do and say exactly as she pleases. But
the return of her missionary sister, Ruth, together with some disturbing
revelations, forces Grace to confront the truth of her marriage. This
sharp and witty comedy is a touching and thought-provoking tale.
• Les Miserables
by Victor Hugo adapted by Tim Kelly (not a musical!),
directed by Robert Little,
7.30pm 12-14 & 18-21 January
2012. Matinée 2.30pm 21
January
This new version remains true to the original story
of the ex-convict Jean Valjean and his relentless pursuit by the "law
and order" police inspector Javert. Filled with fascinating
vignettes of nineteenth-century France, the script boasts a brilliant
cast of characters who weave an exciting tapestry of human kind at its
best and worst.
Visually exciting, emotionally powerful, this is imaginative theatre with
a capital T.
• Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence
adapted and directed by Roger Parsley,
7.30pm 23-25 February and 29 February-3rd
March. Matinée 2.30pm 3 March
This stage adaptation of D.H.Lawrence's powerful
semi-autobiographical novel tells the emotionally charged story of an
artistic young man, Paul Morel, and his relationship with his father,
his controlling mother, Gertrude (who dreams of a golden future for Paul
which she will share) and two very different women who enter his life. Can
his mother let him go? Can his father finally "understand"
him? An intriguing and moving piece of theatre.
• Company Along
the Mile by Tom Bidwell, directed by
Jon Hyde & Jonty Rea,
7.30pm 5-7 & 11-14 April.
Matinée 2.30pm 14 April
A dark comedy about love, Bidwell's play occupies
the same landscape of yearning and redemption found in the plays of Williams,
Pinter and Orton.
Stella, a transvestite and lifestyle fantasist
who insists on having sandwiches cut into triangles, pays the other main
character, George, for his company each Wednesday in a Blackpool hotel
room. Then they find a dead bellboy en suite.......
Tom Bidwell's film Wish 143 was
nominated for a 2011 Academy Award for best live action short film.
World Amateur Premiere
• Brighton Beach Memoirs by
Neil Simon, directed by Jenny Hobson,
7.30pm 10-12 & 16-19 May.
Matinée 2.30pm 19 May
This semi-autobiographical drama, set in post depression
New York, demonstrates Neil Simon's ability to combine sophisticated and
witty comedy with underlying seriousness.
The central character, young Eugene Jerome,
engages the audience in his story as he writes his journal, charting the
sometimes frustrating, and sometimes funny situations in which he finds
himself as he moves through adolescence to adulthood.
Brighton Beach Memoirs has been seen on stage
worldwide, and we are confident that Sewell Barn audiences will be delighted
by this award winning play.
• You Never
Can Tell by Bernard Shaw, directed by
David Hare,
7.30pm 14-16 & 20-23 June.
Matinée 2.30pm 23 June
One of Bernard Shaw's "Plays Pleasant",
this is the story of a smart and witty middle class family at the turn
of the 20th century, on holiday on the south coast of
England. Two young people brighten the dialogue with their
youthful enthusiasms and their elder sister has fallen for her dentist. Their
lives are ordered by their imperious mother. Parentage is puzzling
until later in the action when family problems are eventually sorted out
by a trusted, if idiosyncratic, solicitor.
Seldom performed today, this is a golden opportunity
to see a gem, which will send you home with a spring in your step and
warmth in your heart.
• The Comedy of Errors by
William Shakespeare, directed by Carole Lovett,
7.30pm 19-21 & 25-28 July.
Matinée 2.30pm 28 July
Two sets of identical twins do not
know of each other's existence, and farcical confusion occurs when all
the twins converge in Ephesus. The audience sit back and thoroughly
enjoy the joke as mayhem becomes ever more ridiculous. Needless
to say, by the final curtain, all the muddles have been sorted out and
everyone does indeed live "happily ever after".
This play, one of Shakespeare's earliest
comedies, is full of delightful puns and slapstick.
Performance Times Evening Matinée
Performances start 7.30pm 2.30pm
Foyer opens 6.45pm 1.45pm
Auditorium opens 7.15pm 2.15pm
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