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.
Our next production will be a brand-new adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel, Great Expectations.
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.