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ONE
FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (Bolton
Little Theatre) |
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Saturday 3rd to Saturday 10th May 2008 - 7.30pm |
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You will remember the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest by the mesmeric performance of Jack Nicolson.
This play is rarely produced as few companies
have the resources to handle its scale. However,
we at BLT have assembled an extensive cast and
the set will be one of the largest ever constructed
on our stage. John O’Connell embraces the
challenging role of criminal McMurphy, (for which
he won a GMDF award for Best Actor) and Stephanie
Shipley (last seen at BLT in Death and the Maiden,
also directed by Barry Hall) plays the ice-cruel
Nurse Ratched. The battle for power between the
anarchist and the control freak is always fascinating
and its location in a mental institution, locking
in a criminal pretending to be mad with the supposed
sanity of authority, heightens the struggle and
makes it even more dangerous. The opposed assembly
of asylum inmates, patients and nurses echoes
the focal struggle and our actors have been allowed
to experiment, under the innovative direction
of Barry Hall, who also directed one of our earlier
box office successes, Little Shop of Horrors.
There is no performance on Sunday 4th.
Ticket prices - £7 (Saturday to Thursday),
£8 (Friday and final Saturday)
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AN
EVENING WITH GARY LINEKER Farnworth
Little Theatre |
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Saturday 10th to Saturday 17th May 2008 - 7.30pm |
Farnworth Little Theatre - We
take you back to 4th July, 1990, Italy, and England's
preparations for their most important football
game since 1966. In Majorca, Bill and Monica are
trying to rekindle their troubled marriage. Monica
dreams of an affair with Gary Lineker, though
she has been seeing Dan, a friend of Bill's. Dan
turns up unexpectedly and they settle down to
watch the game on TV with a local German tourist
rep. Through niney minutes, extra time and the
infamous penalty shoot-out, the field of battle
switches between the hotel and the
football pitch as Monica, Bill and the England
team approach the inevitable. Director: Catherine
Millard. Cast:
Rick Sykes, Matthew James, Natalie Laurs, Chris
Millard, Lisa Garrish. Ticket prices -
£6 (£7 on the last Saturday) (back
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farnworth
little theatre |
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0845
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LA
CAGE AUX FOLLES (Altrincham
Garrick Playhouse) |
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Friday 16th to Saturday 24th May 2008 - 7.30pm |
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Altrincham Garrick Playhouse
- As a long running Paris boulevard comedy, later
as a highly original classic film, and more recently
as one of the biggest Broadway musicals and a
major hit in the West End at the Palladium, La
Cage Aux Folles has millions of fans. Jerry
Herman’s music and Harvey Fiersteins book
add new dimensions to the story of the homosexual
lovers whose years of domestic tranquillity are
shattered when a son, fathered during a one-night
heterosexual fling, decides to marry the daughter
of a bigoted politician. Directed & Choreographed
by Anthony Williams. Musical Direction by Mark
Goggins. Costume Designed & Created by Mike
Shaw. Set Designed by Barry Purves.
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altrincham
garrick |
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0161
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THE
SCARLET PIMPERNEL at
the Lowry (Quays Theatre) |
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20th to Saturday 24th May 2008 - 7.15pm |
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An amateur production from the Salford Musical
Theatre Company. A tale of courage, betrayal,
justice, intrigue, trust, honour and love set
against the backdrop of the bloody French Revolution.
A group of English nobles led by Sir Percy Blakeney
– the anonymous hero The Scarlet Pimpernel
– cross the channel to rescue those sentenced
to death. The show comes complete with moving
ballads, hilarious dialogue, daring rescues and
thrilling sword-fights. There is a 2.15pm matinee
on the Saturday.
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0844
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BLITHE
SPIRIT at Daveyhulme
Methodist Hall, Flixton |
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Wednesday 11th to Saturday 14th June 2008 - 7.30pm |
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Canterbury Players - The smash
comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages.
The ingenious plot tells how novelist Charles
Condomine invites into his placid country home
an eccentric, breezy lady medium in order to learn
the language of the occult. Little does Charles
or his lovely second wife, Ruth, dream that the
séance staged by the medium will summon
back Charles' first wife, now "passed over"
for seven years. But the lady from beyond, still
handsome, still mischievous, appears and torments
Charles by reminding him of their days and nights
together. Only Charles can see or hear her. A
floating vase, handed to her out of thin air,
finally convinces Ruth that Charles is not losing
his mind that his first wife is indeed in the
room. The first wife has a ghostly plot in mind:
if she can get Charles into an automobile accident
and make a ghost of him, life in the spirit world
will have more appeal for her. Mistakes occur,
however, and it is Ruth who takes the fatal automobile
ride and passes on only to return with the first
wife to plague the utterly bewildered astral bigamist!
How Charles manages to extricate himself from
these two very blithe spirits makes an hilarious
conclusion to this very unusual farce. Hilariously
funny, brilliant, clever and about as cockeyed
as a play can be. Ticket prices - £6
for adults, £3 for children.
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methodist |
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