Events :: play
- May
- 19-25
Teddington Theatre Club : Pravda: A Fleet Street Comedy
The Press from the inside - you couldn't make it up
By Howard Brenton & David Hare
When young journalists Andrew and Rebecca meet, they share a vision for a better, more truthful future. Mapping the rise and rise of newspaper baron Lambert Le Roux, and various newsrooms not a million miles from The News of the World, this cutting satire is about the battle for liberal England's soul.
Who will win the fight?
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- June
- 1-8
Richmond Shakespeare Society : Insignificance
by Terry Johnsondirected by Barry Evans
.Saturday 1 to Saturday 8 June 2013 Tickets £10 except Friday 7 June and Saturday evening, 8 June at £12.00 * Wed 6 June no performance Booking in person at the theatre 25 May 2013 12:30pm to 2:30pm Telephone bookings open on 27 May: Call the box office, between 10 am and 7 pm only please, on 020 8744 0547Please enquire of the Box Office before booking tickets as to the extent of the provision available at the Mary Wallace Theatre for those with disabilities.
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- June
- Saturday
- 15
- 3pm
Flanders and Swann : Transport of Delight: The Comical World of Flanders and Swann
Michael Flanders and Donald Swann are legends of the British Theatre. Together they created an unforgettable collection of comic songs.
They originally wrote their songs for London Revues in the 1940s and 1950s. Members of the locally acclaimed BROS Theatre Company have restaged these songs as group numbers, taking them back to their roots giving them a new lease of life. Their show won Best Amateur Musical in the Richmond area and received ecstatic reviews.
"flawlessly stylish and musically precise"
Richmond Upon Thames Arts Council Best Musical Awards 2006
- Tickets: £12 and £10 concessions
- www.transportofdelight.co.uk
- Book tickets on 0333 1212 300 or email lesley.alabaf@downs-syndrome.org.uk
ALL PROCEEDS GOING TO THE DOWN'S SYNDROME ASSOCIATION
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- June
- 16-22
Teddington Theatre Club : Love and Understanding
Three into two goes bad
Overworked young doctors Neal and Rachel endure a stressful and almost sexless romance. Enter Neal's old friend Richie, an unstable and impulsive blast from the past. An arch manipulator, he quickly spots the couple's vulnerabilities, lying, insinuating and betraying confidences until their relationship breaks down. Blending the aggressive sexuality of Mamet with the warped naturalism of Pinter, Penhall's dark comedy is an under-performed masterpiece of tension and manipulation.
By Joe Penhall
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- June
- 27-30
Richmond Shakespeare Society : Sunday Youth Group 2013 production
by To Be Decideddirected by To Be Confirmed
.Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 June 2013 Tickets £8:00 Booking in person at the theatre 15 June 2013 12:30pm to 2:30pm Telephone bookings open on 17 June: Call the box office, between 10 am and 7 pm only please, on 020 8744 0547Please enquire of the Box Office before booking tickets as to the extent of the provision available at the Mary Wallace Theatre for those with disabilities.
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- Jun-Jul
- 30-6
Teddington Theatre Club : Tons of Money
Tons of money makes tons of fun
In 1922 Tons of Money, was the first of the legendary Aldwych Farces. Alan Ayckbourn's revised version (1986) had a successful run at the Royal National Theatre. Spend a balmy summer evening in the company of Aubrey Allington and enjoy his devious efforts to avoid paying his mounting debts - and, of course, the inevitable hilarious consequences...
By Will Evans & Valentine
Adapted by Alan Ayckbourn
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- July
- 16-20
Twickenham Operatics Society : The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance spins a hilarious farce of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim-witted young lovers, dewy-eyed daughters and an eccentric Major-General, all morally bound to the often ridiculous dictates of honour and duty.
The beauty, wit and whimsy of Gilbert & Sullivan's classic music is mixed with a modern sensibility by TOpS.
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- 16-20 July at 7.45pm with a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm
- Tickets: £17/£15 for concessions from 07989 565411
- email tickets@twickenhamoperatics.com
- www.twickenhamoperatics.com/tickets
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- July
- 21-27
Richmond Shakespeare Society : The Merry Wives of Windsor
by William Shakespearedirected by John Gilbert
.Sunday 21 to Saturday 27 July 2013 * Wed 24 July No performance Please enquire of the Box Office before booking tickets as to the extent of the provision available at the Mary Wallace Theatre for those with disabilities.
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- November
- 29-30
Richmond Theatre : Ellen Kent's Aida
of the Colosseum of Rome in this spectacular new production from Ellen
Kent & Amphitheatre Productions. This fully-staged traditional
opera is directed by* Ellen Kent* in an amphitheatre set designed by
London based designer Will Bowen.
This tragic love story is brought to life in a
production set against one of the greatest pieces of music Verdi ever
wrote with the well known arias Celeste Aida, Ritorna Vincitor and
the great chorus piece the Triumphal March. This new version of *Aida *symbolises the powerful religious hold of the priests of Egypt and
includes dance sequences based on the ancient temple dancers.
Ellen Kent's direction is influenced by the ancient Greek dramas of Euripides in this new take on Aida.
Aida is a unique story of war, jealousy and revenge, centred around the doomed love of the beautiful Ethiopian slave
girl, Aida, and the Egyptian hero, Radames. Aida is a unique mixture of
splendid chorus scenes and intimate, lyrical moments which show the Chisinau National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus at their best.
'*The masses should not let Aida pass them by' *Edinburgh Evening News. Struan McKenzie. 2004.
Sung in Italian with English surtitles.
