Theatre Visit – Saturday 17th February, 2018
- At November 10, 2017
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The Society has arranged a visit to the Sarah Thorne Theatre in Broadstairs, Kent on Saturday 17th February 2018 to see ‘The Onion at the End’ by Roy Kendall. The winner of the Terence Rattigan Society Award, this World Premier is set in a seaside town in the 1930s. Two entertainers who share the same dressing room but otherwise little in common team up as a comedy act with resulting issues for them, their landlady and her son, plus a theatre producer always on the lookout for future stars!
Julian Fellowes (The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford D.L) presented Roy with a cheque for £2,500 at the ceremony at Harrow School and the other half of the prize was a professional performance of the play at the Sarah Thorne Theatre in Broadstairs by The Sarah Thorne Theatre Company.
We have made the following arrangements and hope that many of you will be able to join us in such an exciting and memorable event for the Society:
1.45-2.30pm: Join us in the theatre bar for a glass of prosecco before the play.
2.30pm: ‘The Onion at the End’ will be performed.
Approx 4.30pm: There will be an opportunity to meet the cast of the play and enjoy a buffet tea of sandwiches, rolls, savouries, meat platter, cheese platter and assorted cakes and a cup of tea or coffee. Alcoholic drinks can be purchased from the theatre bar.
The theatre: For further information about the Sarah Thorne Theatre kindly go to their website: http://www.sarahthornetheatre.co.uk
Please Download the Booking Form Here to find out more information and book your place.
Click Here to See the Poster.
Play Reading, Pre-Christmas Buffet Lunch & AGM
- At November 03, 2017
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The Society has reserved a lovely private room, overlooking the river, on the second floor of Doggett’s public house on the corner of Blackfriars Bridge (South Side). It seats 90 theatre style, so do bring guests.
11.a.m. prompt. THE PLAY READING. ‘Going Back’ by Roy Chatfield.
Roy Chatfield took second prize in The Terence Rattigan Society Award, with his play ‘Going Back’. Julian Fellowes (The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford D.L) presented him with a cheque for £1,000 at the ceremony at Harrow School and the other half of the prize was a rehearsed reading of the play for members of the TRS and their guests. This play alternates between two contrasting worlds – utterly dysfunctional Africa and a cosy, claustophobic world of suburban middle-class England. After six years as the hostage of African rebels, Jules returns home determined to pick up his life where he left it, but his experiences have irrevocably changed him and his family appear not to be the people they were. It is a ‘Rattiganesque’ play in that its broad canvas is coltan mining, hostage-taking and politics, but in fact it is all about people and relationships. Adrian Brown, who was a close friend of Terence Rattigan, is directing and readers include Emily Laing, Giles Cole and Sean Garvey.
12.30/1.p.m. CHRISTMAS BUFFET LUNCH, large selection including turkey/stuffing & cranberry sandwiches, scampi and tartare sauce, cumberland pigs in blankets, chilly chicken skewers, salads, chips, cheese, mince pies and brandy sauce. There will be a private bar adjacent to the meeting room and house wine is £17.95 per bottle.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
This will take place at some point during lunch and will be chaired, with his usual clarity (and brevity), by our Secretary, Group Captain Clive Montellier, OBE., RAF.
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Please download the booking form here.
Love in Idleness Transfers to the Apollo theatre in May
- At March 28, 2017
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Love in Idleness at the Meiner Chocolate Factory
- At January 31, 2017
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The play tells of an 18-year-old who returns from Canada during the war and is shocked to find his widowed mother is now the mistress of a cabinet minister.
Visit the Meiner Chocolate Factory Website here
A THEATRE BY THE LAKE PRODUCTION OF AFTER THE DANCE
- At December 14, 2016
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On from Fri 26 May – Sat 4 November 2017.
More details and booking information can be found here.
Synopsis
A dazzling dissection of love, class and the capacity for self-deceit.
David and Joan Scott-Fowler were Bright Young Things of the 1920s and live a glamorous life of hedonism and pleasure: debauched parties, serious drinking, sparkling wit and superficiality.
But times have moved on and they are no longer as bright or as young as they once were. When a young and idealistic couple come into their lives, they begin to realise that the gaiety of their youth is wearing thin and the precarious game around which their existence is constructed begins to fall apart.
Sharply satirical and heartrendingly beautiful, After the Dance is about a world on the cusp of enormous change. Neglected for many years, it is now considered to be one of the great works of a master dramatist.
