| Status: | Active, open to new members |
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| When: | Monthly on Friday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm 3rd Friday of the month |
| Venue: | The Merse |
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A sociable group who enjoy exploring some of the great works of the theatre.
Next meeting
We are taking a break in August so our next meeting will be:
18th September - we are continuing with 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare between the years 1594 to 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the play which they are to perform before the wedding. Both groups find themselves in a forest inhabited by fairies who manipulate the humans and are engaged in their own domestic intrigue. A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular and widely performed plays.
Source: Wikipedia
Image: Titania sleeping in the moonlight protected by her fairies, 19th century painting by John Simmons
Previous plays
- 'An Inspector Calls' by J B Priestley
- 'A Woman of No Importance' by Oscar Wilde
- 'Night Must Fall' by Emlyn Williams.
- ‘Swept Away by Murder’ by Terry Adcock.
- 'School for Scandal' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
- ‘The Vortex’ by Noel Coward.
- 'Lady Windermere's Fan' by Oscar Wilde
- 'Twelfth Night' by Shakespeare
- 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams
- 'The Playboy of the Western World’ by J.M. Synge.
- 'Pygmalion' by G.B. Shaw.
- ‘Under Milkwood’ by Dylan Thomas.
- 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde