Longueville Little Theatre Company
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This is a tale of two worlds; the human world and the world of the faeries and how these two realms collide.
This is a tale where mortals may love magical immortal fairy queens, and queens may love asses.
This is a comedy of misplaced loves and magic, of desire and misdirection and hidden identity.
This is a night that no mortal of fairy will ever forget, and it is all orchestrated by the mischievous fairy Puck.
This is a story of fools be they mortal or otherwise.
It Could be Any One of Us is a typical Ayckbourn play - a cast of six (3 men, 3 women), five of them being of the same family and one outsider.
The father of the family is getting on in years and announces that he has changed his will to include a young lady who he used to teach piano and who he hasn't seen for 20 years. When she arrives on the scene, the arguments that ensue result in a death, but not of who you would expect.
Whodunnit? Well, it could be any one of us!!
Imagine the situation: a bridegrooms wakes on his wedding morning in his own bridal suite, with his bride-to-be about to arrive any moment, and finds in bed beside him - a naked girl.
A cross between Fawlty Towers and a Whitehall farce, this hilarious play moves at the speed of light, with a riot a minute that will leave the audience aching with laughter… the perfect medicine for all those thinking about getting married.
Confusions is the overall title for five playlets that are loosely linked with undertones of human eccentricities and the dilemma of loneliness. They are set in a living room, a bar, a restaurant, a marquee and a park.
The first – Mother Figure – portrays a woman, socially marooned for most of the day with her young children, who is unable to escape from using baby talk while entertaining her neighbours.
In Drinking Companion a commercial traveller tries his hand at seduction with either or both of two perfume salesgirls.
Between Mouthfuls deals with two couples eating at separate tables in a restaurant. There are previous links between them but at first the couples do not communicate with each other. As a waiter hovers between the tables we hear only the snatches of conversation that he hears.
Described by one national director as “probably the best short comedy ever written”, Gosforth’s Fête is a romp at a garden bazaar. Nothing goes according to plan and an illicit affaire is made public in typical Ayckbourn style.
A Talk in the Park brings the play to a close with five individuals on park benches baring their souls in one-sided conversations.
Guards! Guards! is from the prolific pen of Terry Pratchett and has been adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs.
Terry Pratchett's infamous city of Ankh Morpork is under threat from a 60 foot fire breathing dragon, summoned by a secret society of malcontented tradesmen.
Defending Ankh Morpork against this threat is the entire, underpaid, undervalued City Night Watch - a drunken and world-weary Captain, a cowardly and overweight Sergeant, a small opportunistic Corporal or dubious parentage and their newest recruit, Lance-Constable Carrot, who is upright, literal, law-abiding and keen. Aiding them in their fight for truth, justice and the Ankh Morporkian way are a small swamp dragon called Errol and the Librarian of Unseen University (who just happens to be an orang-utan).
In this dark comedy by Frank Marcus, Sister George is the goody-goody heroine of Applehurst, an everyday story of country folk, on BBC radio daily. Pop-popping around the village on her scooter, District Nurse Sister George dispenses wisdom and bonhomie to all and sundry, and is as much revered by the nation at large as she is in fictional Applehurst.
However, George represents the nice side of June Buckridge, the actress who plays her on the radio. In her private life, George is a brawling, bullying, hard drinking and abusive lesbian, who is not averse to knocking about her submissive live-in lover, Alice (Childie) McNaught, in order to bend her to her will.
When the BBC decide to kill off Sister George to improve the Applehurst ratings, the sparks really begin to fly.
Our annual showcase including sketches, songs and a music quiz
A mad cap British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley, and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster, dirt cheap for his wife, because the wife is Gilbert's mistress and he wants to "Close the deal." However, instead of doing his own dirty work, he gets his reluctant partner, Arnold Crouch, to do it for him. Things go awry when the mobster plans to buy it for his OWN mistress and soon the whole plan goes out the window along with women's clothing and a few other things. Mistaken identities, scantily clad women kept hidden in closets, mobsters, suspicious wives, and misguided shoppers keep this comedy trucking along.
Even though she's 114 years old, Charley's Aunt can still be one funny lady, thanks to the timeless theatrical devices of mistaken identities, sight gags, and physical humour.
It's the story of two college boys, Jack and Charley, who want to go out with their girlfriends, Kitty and Amy, but can't go anywhere in Victorian England without a chaperone. A proper chaperone seems to be in the offing when the boys learn that Charley's rich aunt, Donna Lucia, will soon come to town.
When Donna Lucia sends word that she can't come after all, the boys don't scuttle their plans; they recruit one of their classmates, Lord Fancourt Babberly, to impersonate Charley's aunt. He dresses up in a black satin skirt, a pair of mitts, an old-fashioned cap and a wig. "She" is so fetching (to say nothing of her most attractive fortune) that Amy's Uncle Stephen and Jack's father, Sir Francis, immediately begin to court her.
Into all this mayhem arrives the genuine aunt, Donna Lucia, accompanied by Babberly's beloved, Ela.