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Busman's Honeymoon March 31 to April 2, 2011 r October 2010 IT WAS A NIGHT WHEN WE ALL CAME OUT TO PLAY AND THOROUGHLY ENJOY OURSELVES Pinter’s ‘Celebration’ is a riotously funny play. It is set in "the best restaurant in Europe". At one table, Lambert and his Such a beautiful evening for an brother Matt dined with their ‘Opening Night’ and with so many wives, Julie and her sister Prue, members there, too. There was the celebrating the anniversary of irresistible savoury aroma of Kris Julie and Lambert. At a second Wessels’ barbeque on the green table, Suki chats with his wife outside Nether Compton Hall and Russell. then a reprise of our 150th railway As the play progresses, the anniversary contribution. Good food, characters get progressively good company, good entertainment, more drunk, make appalling who could ask for anything more! [Exclusive APS photo by Kris Wessels] revelations without realising it, divulge their infidelities, and yet Busman’s Honeymoon March 31 to April 2, 2011 stay oddly content and glad- No need to get excited just yet, hearted. Among the tables roam This is just a little advance info to Richard and Sonia, the owners, let you have an idea what our Spring and a hilarious intrusive waiter. 2011 production is all about. That’s the gist of it but to take a part in our unrehearsed play- Wedding bells have finally rung for amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey reading led by Maurice Freeland and crime writer Harriet Vane! But their quiet, country honeymoon at you’ll have to be upstairs at The Talboys becomes a series of misadventures with exploding chimneys Mermaid at 7.30 pm on and unwanted guests, including a body found murdered in their own Wednesday 20 October. home. This inauspicious beginning begs the question: when life gets in the way, can love persevere? Characters in "Busman's Honeymoon" Lord Peter Wimsey: - an aristocratic amateur detective. It’s time to think ahead and come Harriet Vane: - now Lady Peter Wimsey, a mystery writer. up with a programme of future Mervyn Bunter: - Lord Peter's manservant. productions. Directors, aspiring Honoria Lucasta: - Dowager Duchess of Denver, Lord Peter's mother. directors and folk with ideas Noakes: - previous owner of Talboys and murder victim. gather at Charles’s house, Miss Agnes Twitterton: - niece of the murdered man. Runnymede, 69 Newland at 7.30 Frank Crutchley: - a motor mechanic and gardener. pm on Wednesday 13 October. Mrs Martha Ruddle - neighbour of Noakes and his cleaning lady. All ideas for plays and social Bert Ruddle: - her son. events very welcome. Inspector Kirk: - a police inspector. See ‘Notes on Directing’ Joseph Sellon: - a police constable. feature on page 2 overleaf. SHERBORNE 2nd LES MIZ COMES Mr Toad’s Blog INTERNATIONAL LIVE TO YEOVIL Here I am again, FILM FESTIVAL ‘Les Miserables’ bringing you all my Sherborne will host celebrates its inestimable words its second 25th anniversary of wisdom about International Film live from The O2 in Cineworld, the world and Festival from Friday, Yeovil at 7 pm on Sunday 3rd everything. 22 October to October. Tickets £15 + 70p But first, with my Sunday, 24 October booking fee. Call 0871 200 2000. ‘Access All Areas’ pass (only the at the Powell Theatre. most important are awarded Three films will be MRS MALAPROP STRIKES one) I must report on ‘The Wind screened daily with a ILCHESTER WAREHOUSE in the Willows’ rehearsals. One wide-ranging choice ‘The Rivals’, is astonished to see created from all over the Sheridan’s comedy before one’s very eyes not only globe. Many award- of manners plays at my good self, but also all my winning films are The Warehouse, friends and even those utterly being featured including this year’s Ilminster 5th to 8th despicable stoats and weasels. Oscar winner for Best Foreign October. See Diary Now, if I had my way... Anyway, Film, “The Secret in their Eyes”, Dates for contact truth to tell, I shed a tear or two. from Argentina, and the most details. recent Grand Prix winner from Cannes, the French prison film, “A It follows the meddling Mrs Prophet”. The mix of films includes Malaprop on her quest to marry a lyrical love story set during off her spirited niece, Lydia China’s cultural revolution, an Languish. But with the handsome amusing tale of a Japanese Captain Absolute and the poetic businessman’s attempt to dance, a but penniless Beverley vying for gripping spy thriller about the her hand, Lydia has ideas of her Dutch Resistance movement own. Little does she realise that during WWII plus two German films these rivals are one and the same and a Danish film. man! <> <> <> <> <> <> <> <> Actually, I could have been an Tickets cost £5 per film and a George Bush malapropisms actor, I suppose, though it’s not season ticket for all nine films at really a job for someone of my £32. New this year is an official "We need an energy bill that intelligence. opening party before the official encourages consumption." Chatting to Moley the other launch film on Friday 22 October, "I am mindful not only of day about my exciting world of the sumptuous Italian film, “I am preserving executive powers for travel and adventure and he Love”; tickets for the films and for myself, but for predecessors as came out with something quite the reception are on sale at the well." surprising - and it’s not often I’m Tourist Office, Digby Road. surprised. There are no moles in Ireland! No distant relatives, not DIRECTING - READ ALL ABOUT IT one of any kind at all, Frank Hauser’s glory years covered nearly two decades apparently. Probably because (1956-73) at Oxford's Playhouse Theatre when his it’s so very cold and wet, I think. Meadow Players companies included Judi Dench, Now, here’s some important Constance Cummings, Elisabeth Bergner, Prunella news for you to spread around. Scales, Barbara Jefford, Leo McKern, Ian McKellen, As you know, ‘The Wind in the Ronnie Barker, Alan Badel, Alan Howard and Edward Willows’ is a play that can be Woodward. perfectly enjoyed by ‘children’ of In the late 1980s Hauser handed Russell Reich, his assistant all ages. So, it will come as no director, notes he thought might find helpful: “Put actors at ease, but surprise that, in addition to our don’t befriend them. You cannot expect the actor’s best work in an regular evening performances, audition situation. It’s too early in the process and too stressful.” there will also be a matinee at They first appeared as ‘Notes on Directing’ in 2003 and most 2.30 pm on Saturday 20th recently this year. "This book is a gem, witty and full of insight. It November. should be compulsory reading for every aspiring director." Dame Judi Well, that’s all for now. Next Dench. It’s even got its own website at www.notesondirecting.com time I will have lots more The cheapest you can buy a (used) copy is from Amazon UK. exciting news to tell you in my £3.65 + £2.75 p&p. bloggy thingy. See you then. A Brief History of Theatre - in several parts Euripides introduces a more unconventional view of Greek myth, seeing it from new angles or viewing mythological characters in terms of their human frailties. His vision is extremely influential in later schools of tragic drama. Racine, for example, derives Epidaurus, built in about 340 BC, rising tiers of seats, separated by ‘Adromaque’ and ’Phaedre’ from provides the best example of a aisles, provide the pattern for the the ‘Andromache’ and ‘Hippolytus’ classical Greek theatre. In the closest part of the auditorium to the of Euripides. centre of the orchestra is the stage in nearly all subsequent stone base on which an altar theatres - where these seats are stood, reflecting the religious still sometimes called the orchestra aspect of theatre in Greece. The stalls. context, whether by means of a The masterpieces of Greek drama fantastic plot or through the antics date from the 5th century BC. At of ridiculous characters. that time, in Athens, the audience A good example is ‘The Frogs’, sit on the bare hillside to watch a literary satire at the expense of performances on a temporary Euripides. After the death of the wooden stage. In the 4th century a great man, Dionysus goes down to stone auditorium is built on the site, Hades to bring back his favourite and there is still a theatre there “What a lousy season - there hasn’t tragedian. A competition held down today - the theatre of Dionysus. been a good comedy in months.” there enables Aristophanes to In the first Greek theatres the From 486 BC there is an parody the style of Euripides. As a stage is a full circle, in keeping with annual competition for comedies result Dionysus comes back to the circular dance - the ‘choros’ - at Athens - held as part of the earth with Aeschylus instead. from which the theatrical Lenaea, a three-day festival in In ‘The Wasps’’ the Athenian performance has evolved. This January. Only one comic author's love of litigation is ridiculed in the stage is called the orchestra work has survived from the 5th form of an old man who sets up a (orchester, a dancer), because it is century. Like the first three law court in his home, to try his dog the place where the chorus sing tragedians, he launches the genre for stealing cheese. In ‘Lysistrata’ and dance. with great brilliance. He is the horrors of war are discussed in Aristophanes, a frequent winner of a circumstance of extreme social the first prize in the Lenaea (on crisis; the women of Greece refuse History of Drama Timeline the first occasion, in 425 BC, with to make love until their men agree - 454 BC: Euripides enters the the ‘Acharnians’.
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