Hay Fever
Hay Fever was written by Noel Coward in just three days and won praise from both audiences and critics when it was first performed in 1925 with Marie Tempest as the first Judith Bliss. Best described as a cross between high farce and a comedy of manners the play is set in the 1920s in the hall of the Bliss family’s English country house. We meet this eccentric family – Judith - a recently retired stage actress, David - a self-absorbed novelist and their two equally unconventional children and, as the play unfolds, their outlandish behaviour when they each invite a guest for the weekend. The unfortunate weekend guests are repeatedly thrown into melodramatic situations and the self-centred behaviour of the hosts finally drives them to flee while the Blisses are so engaged in a family row that they do not notice their guests' furtive departure!
Our production is on in the Stag (Main Theatre) Wednesday 10th - Saturday 13th November 2010. Performances nightly at 8:00 pm. Saturday Matinee at 2:30 p.m.
Tickets from Stag Theatre Box Office - 01732 450175
Ticket Prices: Wednesday Evening/Saturday Matinee £10 - other performances £12
Concession: 10 tickets booked for one performance - get an extra ticket FREE
The King and I
This Rogers and Hammerstein musical was first produced at the St James Theatre in March 1951, with Gertrude Lawrence as "Anna" and Yule Brynner as the King.
Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the house she had been promised is not available, but falls in love with the children. A new slave, a gift of a vassal king, translates "Uncle Tom's Cabin" into a Siamese ballet, expressing her unhappiness at being with the King. She attempts to escape with her lover. Anna and the King fall in love, but her British upbringing inhibits her from joining his harem. She is just about to leave Siam when she hears of the King's imminent death, and returns to help his son, her favorite pupil, rule his people.