|  | Sat 10th - Sat 17th May 2008 at 7.30pm (not Sunday) Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
by Constance Cox
Directed by Jackie Wesley-Harkcom
Toads Theatre Company Season Plays
“If one must commit
murder it’s only
decent to keep it
in the family”
From one of
Oscar Wilde’s
best-loved stories
Tickets £9.00
Concessions £8.00
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| Wednesday 21st May 7.30pm
Angel Exit Theatre presents
The Black Curtain
A darkly comic film noir thriller, created by a company with a reputation for excellence in physical theatre.
Tickets: £9/£8
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| Tuesday 27 May to Saturday 31 May
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society (Torbay) presents
The Pirates of Penzance
7.45pm - Matinee 2.30pm Saturday 31st Tickets: £9/£8 | |
| Tues 3rd June 2008 at 7.30pm
Cygnet Theatre Presents...
Peer Gynt
by
Henrik
Ibsen
Ibsen’s early masterpiece PEER GYNT is the story of one man’s life, from
boyish
pranks and foolhardy youth, to a wiser old age. Peer’s journey to find
himself is an epic adventure fantasy, painted on a vast and colourful
canvas.
Tickets £9.00
Concessions £8.00
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| Sat 21st - 28th June 2008
at 7.30pm (not Sunday)
Rough Crossing
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by John Miles
Toads Theatre Company Season Plays
Two
producers sailing the Atlantic aboard a 1930’s ocean liner, are racing
to complete their latest creation, a musical comedy to be staged in New
York.
They struggle to rehearse their quarrelsome cast amid mishaps and misunderstandings ...
and very stormy seas.
Tickets £9.00
Concessions £8.00
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| Wed 16th - Sat 26th July 2008 at 7.30pm*
*(no performance on Sunday) Wanted One Body
Directed by
Alan Tanner ‘A FARCICAL CHILLER’
A classic murder mystery of disappearing bodies, sliding panels and howls in the night. WANTED ONE BODY! - but whose will it be?
Tickets £9.50, Concessions £8.50
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| Wed 6th - Sat 9th Aug 2008 at 7.30pm
A Tadpoles / Toads Co-Production
Once a Catholic
By Mary O'malley
A hilarious comedy of life in a 1950’s London convent school as
three 5th form girls encounter nuns, boys, the facts of life and the
corrupting influence of Elvis Presley. Bombarded by saints, sin and
suffering, the girls battle their way through adolescence.
Warning:this play contains some strong language Tickets £9.50, Concessions £8.50 | |
| 13 - 16th August 2008 at 7.30pmApt Creative Presents
Passion A musiical by Stephen Sondheim Based on the film 'Passione D'Amore' This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Joseph Weinberger Ltd on behalf of Music Theatre International New York Tickets £10.00, Concessions £8.00
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| Sunday 17th August 7.30pmAbbagirls The only ABBA tribute to play Las Vegas! International
duo ABBAGIRLS present their stunning show featuring all the great ABBA
songs. With dazzling costume changes this show is an unmissable treat
for ABBA fans. Tickets £10.50 Children £9.50
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| Wed 3rd - Sat 13th Sept 2008 at 7.30pm*
*(no performance
on Sunday)
South West AMATEUR PREMIERE of this famous Ealing Comedy!
The Ladykillers
Directed by
Anna Reynolds
This
production of The Ladykillers is staged by arrangement with Charles
Vance acting on behalf of the film rights holders and the adaptor
Charles Croft who created the stage play from the original comedy
film.
Tickets:
£9.50
Concessions:
£8.50
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| Sat 4th - Sat 11th Oct 2008 - 7.30pm*
*(no performance on Sunday)
Keep The Home Fires Burning
By Paul Hedge
Directed by
Lydia Dockray
For
three lads from 21st century Essex, vandalising a war memorial in a
small Devon town proves to be a mistake that could change their lives.
Their ignorance of the past means that they make a strange
transformation and an uncertain journey, like millions of young men
before them, into the horrors of the trenches of the Somme.
Tickets £9.50 Concessions £8.50 | |
| Mon 27th Oct - Sat 1st Nov 2008 - 7.45pm
Matinee Saturday 1st Nov 2.30pm
Toads Stage Musical Company Presents
it’s Autumn Musical
Sweeney Todd
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Tickets £12.00 Senior Citizens £10 Groups of 10 or more £8.00
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| Friday 7th November 2008 - 7.30pm
Dorset Corset Theatre Company Presents
Northanger Abbey Adapted by Helen Davis Catherine
Morland is hopelessly addicted to Mrs Radcliffe’s lurid and macabre
gothic novel ‘The Mysteries of Udolpho’. In Bath she falls for the
witty Henry Tilney whose family invite her to the dark and sinister
Northanger Abbey, and excited by the prospect, she readily accepts. At
Northanger Abbey Catherine’s over-active imagination causes her two
worlds to collide as fantasy gets in the way of reality. Can she
separate the two?
Tickets £10.00 Concessions £9.00
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| Sunday 9th November 2008 - 7.30pm Lets all go to
the Music Hall The
Old Bull and Bush Company of Artistes are very much looking forward to
their first visit to The Little Theatre. This very popular group was
established six years ago by Jan Sutcliffe and Brian Rees, and they
have raised many thousands of pounds for local charities and for a
hospice in Romania. Last year they toured the South West. They perform
in the true tradition of old time music hall, and audiences love the
old songs (and even older jokes!).
Proceeds from their show will be for your theatre, so tell all your friends!
Tickets £9.50 Concessions £8.50
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| Sunday 16th Nov 2008 at 2.30pm Radio Light Orchestra (Leader: Chris Sheppard)
Featuring Samuel Holmes (tenor)
directed by Major BARRIE MILLS Royal Marines
MORE MAGICAL MUSICALS
Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan, Lerner & Lowe,
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cole Porter etc.
Tickets: £12 / £10 / £6
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| Wed 19th November 2008 - 7.30pm
Vicarage Productions Presents...
The Knicker Lady
Directed by Phoebe Hawthorne & Rachael Longstaff
Rosemary Hawthorne, internationally known as the Knicker Lady, romps through the history of the humble knicker with a tempo
and hilarity that leaves her audience
spellbound, and dying for more.
“We laughed until the tears ran down our cheeks.”
All Tickets £10.50
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| Sat 6th - Sat 13th Dec 2008 at 7.30pm* *(no performance on Sunday) Katherine Howard
by William Nicholson
Directed by Nigel Howells A
slice of Tudor History turned into pure theatrical magic! The touching
romance between a lonely monarch and his lovely but ill-fated bride is
told in this story of Henry VIII and Katherine Howard, a young girl
destroyed by the political intrigues of her ambitious family and
betrayed by those closest to her. A thoughtful and intelligent
play from the author of Shadowlands
Tickets:
£9.50
Concessions:
£8.50
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| Thurs 18th - Fri 19th Dec 2008 at 7.30pm Toads
Christmas
Wassail
Directed by
Jackie Wesley-Harkcom
Musical Director
Ian Cooper
A Sparkling feast of frivolity -
songs, carols, sketches and
poems, all on a festive theme.
Tickets £10.50 Concessions £9.50 including
mulled wine and mince pie
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| SAT 17TH - SAT 24TH JAN 2009 - 7.30PM* *(no performance on Sunday) Barefoot In The Park
By Neil Simon
Directed by Brian Fossey
Climb
the five flights of stairs to the tiny apartment of New Yorkers Paul
and Corrie Bratter, as fresh from their honeymoon the mis-matched pair
begin a battle to understand life, love and surviving wedded bliss,
aided by a meddling mother-in-law and an extremely eccentric neighbour.
A smash hit comedy from the master of one-liners.
Tickets £9.50
Concessions £8.50 | |
| Sat 14th - Sat 21st Feb 2009 - 7.30pm*
*(no performance on Sunday)
Dial M for Murder
Directed by Alec Stokes
When a husband’s plot to murder his wife for her money
goes wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B!
A taut psychological thriller which proves that planning
the perfect murder is not as easy as it seems...
CLASSIC THRILLER FROM A MASTER OF SUSPENSE
Tickets £9.50 Concessions £8.50
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| Sat 14th - Sat 21st March 2009 - 7.30pm* *(no performance on Sunday)
The Graduate
By Terry Johnson
The Sophisticated Broadway Comedy & Smash Hit Film
Directed by Sarah O’Connor
Mrs Robinson sets her sights on young college graduate Benjamin Braddock and nothing will stand in her way...
Contains scenes of an adult nature
Tickets £9.50 Concessions £8.50 | |
| Sat 11th - Sat 18th April 2009 - 7.30pm* *(no performance on Sunday) Sylvia
By A.R. Gurney
Directed by Liz McGinnes Forget Lassie!, Forget
Rin-Tin-Tin! Meet Sylvia! When middle-aged Greg brings home to his wife
the scruffy mutt he found wandering in Central Park, he creates a love
triangle with a difference as Sylvia begins to chew a big hole in their
marriage. This wickedly funny and touching comedy is for anyone who has
ever loved a dog, wanted to wring a dog’s neck or just wished the dog
would take a long weekend.
LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG TAKES ON A WHOLE NEW MEANING
“I can only call it one of the most involving, beautiful, funny,
touching and profound plays I have ever seen” - The New York Daily News
CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE
Tickets £9.50 Concessions £8.50
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| Sat 9th - Sat 16th May 2009 - 7.30pm*
*(no performance on Sunday)
The Diary of Anne Frank
Dramatised by Frances Goodrich
and Albert Hackett
Directed by Jackie Wesley-Harkcom
“ In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart”
Tickets £9.50
Concessions £8.50
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| Sat 20th -Sat 27th june 2009 - 7.30pm* *(no performance on Sunday)
Present Laughter
by Noel Coward
directed by Stephanie Austin
“Coward at his peak...
the dialogue sparkles”
At the centre of his universe sits matinee
idol Gary Essendine, an egotistical charmer,
suave, sophisticated,... and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs...
“One of Coward’s finest
and funniest comedies”
Tickets £9.50 Concessions £8.50 | |
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