To celebrate Molière’s 400th birthday this year, Circle 67 will be touring a new translation of The Miser around the Blyth valley. This is the third Molière comedy that we’ve performed and is just as funny as Mamamouchi and Tartuffe. It’s the story of a covetous old miser who loves money above everything else, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold while mistreating his children under a tyrannical, penny-pinching rule. But both children have fallen in love, setting the stage for a comical battle between love and money.
After last year’s temporary hiatus, Circle 67 is delighted to confirm the return of our Summer Shakespeare Tour with a shortened version of "Much Ado About Nothing”.
The 28th of April 2021 will see the curtain fall on the 41st and final night of Circle 67’s Lockdown Theatre. What started out as an attempt to keep our group connected during the dark days of the pandemic, has evolved to become a weekly Zoom performance that has debuted nearly 80 plays to our local supporters and a new international audience. Obviously it’s great news that we are slowly returning to more traditional ways of meeting (see our new Summer Shakespeare post) but I think it’s worth reflecting on what we have all achieved during this difficult phase in our lives.
They shall be my East and West Indies,
and I will trade to them both.
Antigone is the first of Sophocles' three Theban plays but covers the final act of the Oedipus tragedy.
Nell Trent is a young orphan girl who lives with her devoted grandfather in his London shop, a place full of old and curious treasures. He is keen to ensure that they live in peace and prosperity but turns to gambling in a misguided effort to make money. He has little luck and becomes heavily indebted to the moneylender Daniel Quilp who seizes the shop as payment, forcing Little Nell and her grandfather to flee across the country.
Following on from our great successes in France in 2013 and 2016 we are planning our next French adventure. We are hoping to take a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor to the Dordogne area of South-west France with performances planned for the weekend 2 - 4 August (the week immediately following our usual local tour 23 - 28 July). Merry Wives is very funny - Shakespeare's purest farce - and is his only comedy with no dark side. Nobody dies (a bit of a contrast to last year's Macbeth)! It should be great fun.
Read more on The Shorter Shakespeare Summer Tour 2019 - Casting/Reading
Group member Neville Chaplin has been busy working on a “new take” of the Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles for our spring production. The tragedy is tempered with wry comments from the chorus and the foibles of some of the characters. The casting/reading will take place in Bramfield Village Hall on Friday 23 November at 7.30pm. Rehearsals will start in January and performances will take place from 30 April to 4 May at five different venues in the local area. If you would like to be involved but cannot attend, or would like further information, please contact us
