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- February 2003
What if four children had been locked away in darkness and complete isolatiosince birth? What if, tonight, they were to be released? How would bodies and minds reared in darkness respond to the first words, thfirst lies, the first kisses?What if you got to watch? This disturbingly comic play strips away the mask of society to expose the conflict between nature and nurture in an uncensored and fantastically brash style for an hour of schizophrenic brilliance.
- February 2003
- November 2002
An award-winning television series, Talking Heads looks wryly at the everyday quirks of human life. Now the Amateur Dramatic Club brings three of the best of these monologues to the Corpus Christi Playroom. Bed Among the LentilsSusan is the wife of the vicar. And an alcoholic. Plagued by her husband's female 'fan club' and the pettiness of the church flower arrangers, she finds solace in the arms of an Indian grocer. Her Big ChanceLesley is an actress. A serious one. So when she has the opportunity to star in a film she grabs it with both hands. Oblivious to the true nature of her starring role, her insistence on her 'professionalism' is touchingly comic. A Chip in the SugarGraham lives with his elderly mother. Utterly dependent on their relationship he is bitterly jealous when she begins a friendship with another man, and their orderly, well-structured life is threatened. NB: These performances replace David Hare's The Blue Room as previously advertised.
- November 2002
Simple: an afternoon break on the usual bench (well it's the weather for it) and a good book. A stranger who forces eye contact. Questions that make you need to loosen your collar. Stories that make you forget where you are and how to get home. A set of pornographic playing cards, some empty photo frames, a dog and a trip to the Zoo. As the park empties and New York goes home, Peter falls under Jerry's hypnotic power. His is a world where televisions murmur empty messages from above to people lost in the lodging houses of New York. Jerry no longer knows how to pray.
- October 2002
- February 2002
In the basement room of a deserted house, two men wait impatiently for instructions on a job they must do. But their predicement takes a surprising turn as bizarre messages are sent from the supposedly abandoned floor above. One of Pinter's earliest plays, The Dumb Waiter is both a dark farce and a suspense thriller. Combining humour with tension, Pinter forces the audience into the role of detective in a drama where vital questions are left unanswered.
- February 2002
Alone. Alienated. Homeless. No family here, no friends, no jobs, nothing. Seeking asylum. Taking our money, our jobs, our housing. Filling the newspapers with their stories. Let them in? Throw them out? Halina has come to Britain to escape, to find a new life in our country. To many, she too is a just a statistic, a headline at best. But to the few who get to know her, Halina is anything but straightforward. Halina, an enigma, faces the ultimate dilemma: in an uncertain world, who can we trust? What is fact, what fiction?
- January 2000
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