Home Chat January 2003 Booklet
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WHAT’S ON? ACROSS THE GLOBE (* denotes Premiere, TBC = To be confirmed) Professional companies are shown in red - amateur companies in black. JANUARY America & Canada 2003 Blithe Spirit 24 Apr to 10 May Whitby Courthouse Theatre, Whitby, Ontario Hay Fever 7 to 19 Jun The New Harmony Theatre Opening, New Harmony Indiana. 24 Jun to 31 Aug Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City, Utah, USA. www.bard.org. Private Lives 5 to 15 Feb Player’s Theatre, McGill university Montreal, Quebec 7 to 23 Apr Gimli Theatre Association, Gimli, Manitoba 8 to 17 May Gateway Theatre Guild, North Bay, Ontario Relative Values 7 Jun to 5 Jul The Metropolitan Cooperative Theatre Society, Vancouver BC Waiting for Coward May 5th A play by Elizabeth Sharland at the Algonquin, NYC ELAINE AT DRURY LANE Europe Nude With Violin Entity Theatre Workshop 23 Jan to 1 Feb The Aula Theatre, Munich, Germany RECALLS THE MASTER 15 Feb Black Box Theatre, Gasteig, Germany The Society completed its Blithe Spirit 31 Mar to 2 Apr Zurich International School, Kilchberg, Switzerland third celebration of The Australasia Master’s Birthday at Drury We Were Dancing/Shadow Play/Red peppers 2 Lane on 14th December 2002 7 to 26 Jul Queensland Theatre Co. Optus Playhouse, Brisbane (Press Night 10 Jul) with real style. Our guests Blithe Spirit 28 to 31 Aug Tropic Line TheatreTownsville, Queensland, Australia provided a feast for both 15 Nov to 20 Dec Melbourne Theatre Co Victoria then national tour 2003 (Press Night 19 Nov) members and media. Theatre Suite in Two Keys 11 Mar Effie Crump Theatre stars for this occasion were The Rest of the World Private Lives Current Pieter Toerien Productions, Cape Town, Grahamstown, Jo’burg, South Africa our own Vice-President Judy United Kingdom Campbell who reflected on Hay Fever TBC New West End production starring Penelope Wilton the life and career of Graham 31 Jan to 8 Feb The Angles Theatre, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Payn, and the inimitable 18 to 22 Feb Swansea Little Theatre Co. Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea Elaine Stritch who recalled 5 to 8 Mar Bijou Theatre Club, Palace Theatre, Paignton, Devon with humour her memories of Noel Michael Imison and Judy Campbell watch as Elaine Stritch Nude With Violin 7 to 14 June Stockport Garrick Theatre, Stockport, Cheshire Coward. We picked our way takes on the press at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Present Laughter 20 Jan to 30 Mar Theatre Royal Bath Productions UK Tour through a media melange of photog- development of the Society across the pre-Christmas rush to the 17 to 22 Mar Romsey Operatic and Dramatic Society. The Plaza Theatre, Romsey raphers and a Home Box Office the globe. Ken Starrett our repre- Donmar Warehouse to see a Fumed Oak 13 &14 Dec Phoenix Players, Village Hall, Abertin, Glamorgan crew making a documentary on sentative in New York City was matinee performance of The Vortex The Vortex 5 Dec to 15 Feb The Donmar Theatre Elaine, that gave the foyer at the present together with members from starring Francesca Annis and Fallen Angels 15 to 24 Aug Hever Lakeside Theatre, Kent Brief Encounter Current to 30 Apr Noel Coward / Andrew Taylor - Middle Ground Theatre Co UK Tour Theatre Royal a touch of ‘movie all over the country. Michael Imison, Chiwetel Ejiofor on a set that struck 25 Apr to 17 May Noel Coward / Andrew Taylor - Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch magic’ in what is fast becoming an who retires from the Chair for a an impressive balance between the A Song at Twilight 24 Jan to 8 Feb Perth Theatre Company Box Office 01738 621031 www.perththeatre.co.uk annual celebration of the Society in second time received the whole- Art Deco mores of The Twenties Relative Values 31 May to 7 Jun Halifax Thespians at The Playhouse, Halifax, West Yorkshire the UK. Earlier in the day at the hearted thanks of the members for and small modern theatre demands - Bitter Sweet 10 to 14 June Maidenhead Operatic Society at Maidenhead Town Hall. www.mos-uk.org. Society’s Annual General Meeting his services to the Society and was a feat not entirely echoed in the Blithe Spirit 17 to 22 Feb Folkestone & Hythe O&DS Little Theatre, Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent at the Theatre Museum, Covent presented with a painting of Noel production itself. 24 Feb to 1 Mar Bingley Little Theatre, Bingley, West Yorks. Garden, members showed their Coward by Eve Fisher painted in Read Sheridan Morley’s view on 5 to 8 Mar Poulton Drama, Poulton Le Fylde, Lancs keenness to contribute to the 1952. Following lunch at the Café this new revival production on 12 to 15 Mar Playhouse Theatre Co, Studio Theatre, Harlow, Essex page 2. 6 Jun to 31 Oct Cumbria Theatre Trust, Theatre By The Lake, Keswick, Cumbria des Amis, members walked through 11 to 16 & Jill Freud & Co, Southwold, Suffolk 18 to 30 Aug Jill Freud & Co, Southwold, Suffolk Private Lives 24 Jan to 15 Feb The Attic Theatre, Hertfordshire 24 Feb to 3 Mar Erith Theatre Guild, Theatre Playhouse, Erith, Kent 27 Feb to 29 Mar Octagon Theatre, Bolton 5 to 8 Mar Harrogate Amamteur Dramatic Society, Harrogate, Yorkshire. 13 to 29 Mar Mercury Theatre, Colchester 19 Sep to 11 Oct Theatre Royal, York Semi-Monde 27 Jan to 13 Feb British School for Performing Arts & Technology, Main Theatre, Croydon Waiting In The Wings 30 Sep to 4 Oct The Old Market, Brighton The Noël Coward Society, 29, Waldemar Avenue, Hellesdon, Norwich, NR6 6TB Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)1603 486188 Fax: +44 (0)1603 400683 Members gather in the foyer of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane for the Noel Coward by Eve Fisher Annual Flower Laying ceremony to mark The Master’s Birthday painted in 1952 Page 16 Noel Coward at The Ivy - 29th March - Lorna Dallas accompanied by Jason Carr. See page 3 The Vortex cost. Only Coward himself, reading The Donmar’s production of The COMMITTEE - 2003 US Representatives it to the Lord Chamberlain four Vortex is sober and intelligent, the Ken Starrett in New York email: STOP PRESS ... Patron: Graham Payn (An extract from: days before its opening night, cast well chosen. Bette Bourne, [email protected] Honorary President: Sir John Mills ‘High society and slumming it’ - an retrieved it from the blue pencil. James O’Brien in Philadelphia email: Coward X 2 dressed as a man (actually, if you Honorary Vice Presidents: Judy article in the New Statesman on [email protected] This is a benefit for Shakespeare Globe Critical reactions elsewhere to look closely, he is a man), is a fine Campbell Moira Lister Sheridan Morley The Vortex at the Donmar & Walter Smyth in Trevose near Phila- Centre USA (SGC USA). The event will Grandage’s new production are vicious old queen. Deborah Findlay Chair - John Knowles King Heldey II at the Tricycle) delphia email:[email protected] comprise Coward’s “Age Cannot likely to focus on his radical finds the humanity in Florence’s email:[email protected] Alan Farley in San Francisco email: Wither”, featuring Rosemary Harris, decision to cast a black actor John is a Director of NC Ltd. by SHERIDAN MORLEY best friend. Ejiofor jars, not because [email protected] Sally Ann Howes, and Hayley Mills, Membership Secretary - of considerable authority and he looks out of place but because Jeff Bierig Chicago and the Midwest and Barry Day’s “Noel&Alfred&Lynn”, Geoffrey Skinner Michael Grandage’s artistic distinction (Chiwetel Ejiofor, who he is stylistically 80 years away email: [email protected] with Rosemary Harris, Barrie Ingham email: geoffrey@samuelfrench- directorship of the Donmar starred in Blue Orange) in from the other characters. and Simon Jones. The event will be london.co.uk QUERIES TO ... held on Monday, March 17th at the Warehouse opens with a revival of Coward’s own leading role of Nicky The Vortex is at the Donmar Geoffrey represents Samuel French John Knowles email: University Club. Tickets for the The Vortex. In a Treasurer - Graham Martin email Warehouse, London WC2 [email protected] performance and the preceding thoughtful email:[email protected] (020 73691732) until 15 Editor of Home Chat and the Website. reception are $250; tickets for the Graham is a partner of Blinkhorns programme note, February ‘03 Michael Imison email: reception, performance, and dinner Michael Imison Philip Hoare, Noel [email protected] following are $450. Michael is a director of Noel Coward Coward’s latest The following extract is UK and US productions. Ltd. and is the immediate Past Chair of biographer, pinpoints Dominic Vlasto email: Over My Shoulder taken from the Donmar the Society the social and sexual [email protected] Stewart Nicholls writes to say that Warehouse website: Robert Gardiner Coward musicology & performance. ...Over My Shoulder the Jessie significance of the www.donmar-warehouse.com Robert is a director of Noel Coward Geoffrey Skinner (Samuel French) Matthews story is being performed for play that made A storm is brewing that Ltd. & a trustee of the Noël Coward email: geoffrey@samuelfrench- five weeks at the Mill at Sonning from Coward the threatens to engulf the Foundation. london.co.uk Membership and all sales 8th April until 10th May. It is then shocking darling of a Gareth Pike Lancaster family. Returning of CDs and books. going on a five week tour - venues to very conservative Gareth is a Past Secretary of the from Paris, Nicky (Chiwetel Gareth Pike email: [email protected] be confirmed. Not only does the show Society. and cowardly West Ejiofor) discovers that his Student, general and biographical. feature a couple of Coward songs - it Claire Osborne End.