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Strange Orchestra - June 2010 |
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Written by Clare Phillips
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Summer Production: Strange Orchestra
by Rodney Ackland
Production 2-5 June 2010
Directed by Aidan Steer
Chelsea, early 1930s - dreadfully dissolute Vera runs her large and untidy flat as a boarding house.
Her three adult children and assorted lodgers – young, poor and uncertain of their jobs – squabble hysterically, try to write novels, make love and dance to the tune of a gramophone. Into this Bohemian household wanders the charismatic Peter, a self-styled artist destined to destroy happiness with devastating charm and the behaviour of a complete cad…
Ackland’s beautifully written tragi-comedy, directed by John Gielgud in 1932, was his first major success and a direct, subversive challenge to the ‘anyone for tennis’ drawing-room school of West End theatre.
Auditions have been held, and casting is under way. The production was fortunate to attract a lot of potential new recruits, so don't be surprised to see some new faces in the pub or at rehearsals in the coming weeks.
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Written by Clare Phillips
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Strange Orchestra
Directed by Aidan Steer to be performed 2nd - 5th June 2010.
Tickets are now On Sale for the June production of Strange Orchestra written by Rodney Ackland
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