Mrs Horrocks’ class of seven year olds is in the final stages of preparing the annual Nativity Play at Flint Street primary school. As with all young children, rivalries and friendships come to the fore. Two girls compete to secure the envied role of Mary, Herod won’t stop waving to his Mum and Dad, while a nervous Star of Bethlehem is desperate to prove that he is as brave as the surly Innkeeper...and then the stick insect escapes! Tim Firth (Calendar Girls) plays with all the familiar seasonal tropes to provide a unique insight into the minds of children through the behaviour of grown-ups. Warning: The play contains adult themes and some playground language that may amuse and possibly offend teachers & parents.
London. The plague is over. Theatres are re-opening. King Charles II has exploded onto the scene with a love of all things loud, extravagant and sexy. And at Drury Lane, a young Nell Gwynn is causing stirrings amongst the theatregoers.
We started our outdoor Shorter Shakespeare tours in 1984 with around half-an-hour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and gradually seem to have doubled the length to about an hour, in venues such as pub gardens (Geldeston Locks, The Low House, Westhall Racehorse, etc.), Bungay Castle and Castle Meadow in Bramfield.
Our Annual General Meeting is being held on Monday 24th April, 6.45 for a 7pm start at Bramfield Village Hall. The AGM will include: the Chairman’s, Treasurer’s and Secretary’s reports for the last year, and the election of officers and committee for the coming year. It is really important to the current committee that as as many of you attend as possible, as quite frankly, we need you! Fresh enthusiasm and energy to help organise and direct productions would be most welcome.
Circle 67 would like to invite you to a reading of this high-spirited farce, in which the vain and lustful Sir Harcourt Courtly travels to Oak Hall to meet his bride-to-be, the charming young Grace Harkaway, whose hand comes with £15,000 a year. But when the beautiful and vibrant Lady Gay Spanker joins the party, Sir Harcourt becomes too enamoured with her to notice that Grace is falling in love with his young son Charles, who has arrived in disguise, pursued by his creditors! A parade of eccentric characters and merry mishaps ensue in this classic comedy of manners.
A new dramatisation of Charles Dickens’s great novel.
