Drum roll and ... presenting Play Clubs brand new Spring Season, all about finding and defining yourself. WHO IS THE FREAK? Next Sunday! Sunday 21 September | 3pm THE ELEPHANT MAN by Bernard Pomerance [Moving Drama] Winner! 1979 Tony® Award for Best Play The Elephant Man is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A horribly deformed young man, victim of rare skin and bone diseases, he has become the star freak attraction in traveling side shows. Found abandoned and helpless, he is admitted to Londons prestigious Whitechapel hospital. Under the care of celebrated young physician Frederick Treves, Merrick is introduced to London society and slowly evolves from an object of pity to an urbane and witty favorite of the aristocracy and literati only to be denied his ultimate dream, to become a man like any other. Ravishing theatre....Utterly fascinating...A distinguished piece of work. - New York Daily News An enthralling and luminous play. Haunting, splendid... - The New York Times Wonderful, moving and purely theatrical. A giant of a play! - New York Post A moving drama, lofted on poetic wings, it nests in the human heart. - Time ANOTHER PLAY CLUB HALLOWEEN! Friday 31 October | 7pm* BLITHE SPIRIT by Nöel Coward [Sophisticated Haunted Comedy] Winner! 2009 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Revival The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantakerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting happy medium, one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and un-) personalities clash, Charles current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, passes over, joins Elvira and the two blithe spirits haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity. The recent revival starred Angela Lansbury and played to glowing reviews! Remember last years hit AND THEN THERE WERE NONE? Its BACK! Pull out your best 1940s outfits - its another Play Club Halloween ON Halloween! Can still keep an audience in a state of tickled contentment - Ben Brantley, The New York Times, 2009 A world-class comedy - TheatreMania, 2009 READY TO FIGHT? Sunday 23 November | 3pm Harper Lees TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD adapted by Christopher Sergel [Stirring Courtroom Drama] Scout, a young girl in a quiet southern town, is about to experience dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and brother, Jem, are being raised by their widower father, Atticus, and by their strong-minded housekeeper named Calpurnia. Wide-eyed Scout is fascinated with the sensitively revealed people of her small town but, from the start, theres a rumble of thunder just under the calm surface of the life here. Set in 1935, this play illustrates the social issues of this time period as the black people of the community have a special feeling about Scouts father. In her youthful innocence, she does not know why. A few of her white friends are inexplicably hostile and Scout doesnt understand this either. Unpleasant things are shouted and the bewildered girl turns to her father. Atticus, a lawyer, explains that he is defending a young negro wrongfully accused of a grave crime. Since this is causing such an upset, Scout wants to know why he is doing it. Because if I didnt, her father replies, I couldnt hold my head up. When she asks why Atticus would take on such a hopeless fight, he replies, Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason not to try. He goes on to prepare Scout for the trouble to come. Were fighting our friends. But remember this—no matter how bitter things get, theyre still our friends. Things do get bitter, leading up to drastic measures as Atticus props himself in a chair against the cell door of the man hes defending to confront an angry mob. Horrified, Scout projects herself into this confrontation and her inconvenient presence helps bring back a little sanity. Atticus fights his legal battle with a result that is part defeat, part triumph. As Atticus comes out of the courthouse, the deeply moved town minister tells Scout, Stand up. Your fathers passing! This dramatization of the touching classic tale is a meaningful work of art. Want to come play? Its free but strictly limited! [email protected] PLAY CLUB: Where scripts go to unwind.
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