Directed by Merrily Powell
Friday 8th to Saturday 16th May at 7.30pm
Double the value, double the entertainment, double the pleasure!
FOUR PLAYS:
An amusing sortie into the vagaries of marital arts
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Countdown | A Man's Best Friend | Night |
| by Lyndon Brook | by Alan Ayckbourne | by James Saunders | by Harold Pinter |
Your chance to see four excellent, amusing, and unusual short plays penned by four of the very best British playwrights, drawn from "Mixed Doubles", a production first staged at the Comedy Theatre, London in 1969.
INCLUDE ME OUT:
A premiere production written and played by Lewis Cowen, a well known journalist and professional actor. Giving an extraordinary insight in to the career of Samuel Goldwyn, a self-made man, who rose from the ghettoes of Warsaw to become the most successful independent producer in Hollywood.
Tickets £7 & £8, bookings from 16th March.
What the Papers Say:
Gazette & Herald - Tuesday 12th May 2009 by Jo Bayne
"Five plays for the price of one is good value in any terms.
First we have four short plays about matrimony, embracing young social climbers (James Catt and Jemma Barnes) on the losing end of a tennis match, a middle-aged couple who have lost the art of communicating with each other (Paul Myles and Sue Cripps), a honeymoon couple with a particularly jittery groom (Tori Burt and Tim Coomer) and an older pair who reflect on their first meeting and their enduring passion for one another (Sheila Weller and Peter Wells).
The second and last were my personal favourites. No surprise to find they were written by Alan Ayckbourn and Harold Pinter respectively. Each writer in a very different way catches the thoughts of their characters and the words unsaid which are often more significant than the actual dialogue. All the performances were crisp and empathetic, a challenging task with so little time to develop and project the characters. Equal credit is due to director Merrily Powell.
Lewis Cowen presented much stronger meat in his one-man play of his own creation, Include Me Out, on the life of film mogul Samuel Goldwyn, as told to his unseen analyst. It was a passionate tour de force which deserves to be shared with a much wider audience. Cowen immediately takes us on a whirlwind journey from Warsaw through Hamburg and London to New York – and that’s only the first 16 years of Goldwyn’s life.
We share the laughter, the tears, the betrayals – and the successes and triumphs. It is utterly absorbing and bursting with energy, with the bonus of projected film slides of the people he is talking about as a backcloth. He is loud and brash one moment and then moving us to tears with his poignant and painful recollection of his last meeting with his mother.
You have until Saturday to catch this gem."
