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8th - 15th November - 'Situation Comedy' by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke
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Performances start at 7:30 pm.
Tickets are available from the SPAR on Station Rd, Bawtry, priced £6 (£5 for concessions) and £12 for the buffet evening performance on Saturday 15th Nov.
19th - 21st June - 'Joe's Last Journey' performed by the Phoenix Young
Players.
Performances start at 7.30pm. Ticket prices are £6 for adults and £5
for under 18's and seniors.
Tickets can be reserved by telephoning Tony Jones on 01302 532335.
The play tells the story of a young lad living in England in the 1960's.
Circumstances force him to run away to the United States where he tries to
make a new life but things always seem to go wrong. He returns to England
but discovers something terrible which forces him to run away yet again,
this time to stay.
Finally he returns to England in 2008 to die but first he must tell his
story to his family and ask for a very special funeral.
17th to 24th May - Snake in the Grass by Alan Ayckbourn.
An atmospheric play with a cast of three women, directed by Edward Burroughs.
Annabel hears that her father has died and hastens back from Australia. She is confronted by a total stranger who seems to be trying to blackmail her. Just how and why did her father die? Time to confront her sister Miriam. The result is nothing like what she expects. It's nothing like what the audience will expect either!
Performances start at 7:30 pm.
Tickets are available from the SPAR on Station Rd, Bawtry, priced £6 (£5 for concessions) and £12 for the buffet evening performance on Saturday 24th May.
This production is kindly sponsored by Atkinson Smith Insurance Brokers, Doncaster.
8th – 15th March 2008
Out of Order
A Comedy by Ray Cooney
at the Phoenix Theatre, Station rd, Bawtry
Directed by Steve Kellett
When Richard Willey, a Government Junior Minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition’s typists, things go disastrously wrong, beginning with the discovery of a ‘body’ trapped in the hotel’s only unreliable sash window.
Desperately trying to get out of an extremely sticky situation, Richard calls for his PPS, George Pigden who, through Richard’s lies, sinks further and further into trouble.
Things go from bad to worse with the arrival of Ronnie, Jane’s distraught young husband and with the addition of an unscrupulous waiter, Mrs Willey and Nurse Foster things really come to a head.
Performances start at 7:30 pm. Tickets, priced £6 (£5 for concessions) and £12 for the buffet evening performance on Saturday 15th March, are available from the Spar mini-market, Station Rd, Bawtry.
This production is sponsored by Jones & Co. Solicitors of 48 High Street, Bawtry.
Out of Order received the 1991 Olivier Award for Comedy of the Year.
3rd to 10th November 2007
Life Goes On by Adrian Hodges
A thoughtful and engaging comedy which opens in the hours following the
funeral of George Marlowe, who left this life unexpectedly whilst repairing
his wife's hairdryer. The caterers have mixed up the wake with a child's
birthday party and matters go downhill along with the green jelly!
George's younger brother, Michael, a would-be writer hoping to interest a
Hollywood star in his latest filmscript, attempts to seduce Debbie, youngest
sister of his partner Helen and of Joyce who is George's widow. During the
evening Michael leaps from assignations with all three sisters, until the
arrival of George's ghost puts paid to his intentions. George has been
allowed back to tie up the loose ends of his life, including dealing with
Michael's philandering. George manages in different ways to bring harmony
and a new sense of direction to each member of the family, proving that
despite everything, life goes on.
The cast includes Steve Kellett, Tony Abbott, Sandra Tuson, Pat Abbott,
Trudy Panting and Judith Barton.
This production is sponsored by W.E. Pinder & Son, Funeral Directors, of 19 Thorn Rd Bawtry.
27th to 29th November 2007 7:30pm
Trash by Tony Jones and Rob Southwick
An original musical performed by 25 members of the Phoenix Young Players with songs in a variety of styles from Blues to Folk and Rock.
A group of children live on a rubbish dump, sent there by a harsh society which has rejected them.
They have formed their own structured society, kept together by a set of rules and customs. The children know about each other's mistakes but are not judgemental.
They are focused on a dream that one day, with the help of a machine called the 'Flyer', they will reach a mysterious place called 'Disney' where they will be accepted and happy.
Into this group comes a new member. She rejects the rules, ridicules their customs and destabilises established relationships. This leads to a tragedy which affects them all.
The 'Flyer' is ready and they prepare to leave but....
Tickets £6.00 (£5 concessions) available by calling 01302 532335
12th to 19th May 2007
The Kidnap Game by Tudor Gates
Directed by Raj Madaan this thriller takes place in the office of wealthy arms dealer Paul Kendon (played by Steve Bickerstaffe) whose daughter has been kidnapped by Philip Hall (played by Neil Newell). The only help Kendon has is from his Chief of Security Harry Daines (Bob Geeson) and inspector Joy Heart (Melissa Thiele).
Performances start 7:30pm.
Tickets, priced £6 (£5 concessions) and £12 for buffet evenings on 18th and 19th May. Available from Dickies Newsagents, Station Rd, Bawtry from April 21st.
24th February to 3rd March 2007
Good Grief by Keith Waterhouse
A bitter sweet drama about a recently widowed woman, June, played by Sue Stevenson. Directed by Judith Barton, other cast members include Steve Kellett, Raj Madaan and Charlotte Felton.
The evening's performance will start at 7:30pm. Tickets, priced £6 (£5 concessions) and £12 for buffet evenings on 2nd and 3rd March, available from Dickies Newsagents, Station Rd, Bawtry.
This production is sponsored by Bawtry Health and Fitness Studio, 4 Church Walk, Bawtry. www.bawtryhealthandfitness.co.uk
11th to 18th November 2006
The Murder Room by Jack Sharkey
Set in a rather grand but faded country cottage on the outskirts of Harrogate in the late 1920's/early 1930's, this play is a spoof on a period mystery,
by the same writer as the 'Adams Family'.Directed by Pat Abbott, the cast includes Bob Geeson, Sue Sevenson, Steve Bickerstaffe, Tony Jones, Lynn Clark and Sandra Blackman.
The play has all the usual hilarity and confusion associated with farce.
Each evening's performance will start at 7:30pm.
Tickets, priced £6 (£5 concessions) and £12 for buffet evenings on 17th and 18th available from Dickies Newsagents, Station Rd, Bawtry.
22nd to 27th May 2006
'Audacity' by Simon Mawdsley.
Directed by Sue Stevenson this lighthearted thriller is about three men,
Philip, John and Dave, who are all strapped for cash for one reason or
another and decide to rob a department store. The wives of
Dave and John become suspicious and investigate what their men are up
to. Nothing turns out quite as expected.
The cast includes Steve Kellett (Philip), Keith Waring (John), Steve
Bickerstaffe (Dave), Melissa Thiele (Gemma) and Sandra Blackman (Gillian).
Each evenings performance will start at 7:30pm. Tickets from Dickies
Newsagents, Station Rd, Bawtry, priced £5 (£4 concessions) £10 for buffet
nights on May 26th and 27th.
This production is kindly sponsored by 'Time For Diamonds' Market Place,
Bawtry.
11to 18th March 2006
Respecting Your Piers a comedy by Peter Quilter.
Directed by Steve Kellett, this comedy is about five women who are forced to settle their differences after they inherit equal shares in a dilapidated pleasure pier. A character driven comedy that is also gentle and touching.
Each evenings performance will start at 7:30pm. Tickets from Dickies Newsagents, Station Rd, Bawtry, priced £5 (£4 concessions) £10 for buffet nights on March 17th and 18th
The Opposite Sex, an adult comedy by David Tristram. Directed by Edward Burroughs.
The play involves four people; Mark, Vicky, Judith and Eric, who only have one thing in common. And when they find out what it is all hell's going to break loose.
Featuring Graham Vernon, Jon Whiteley, Melissa Thiele and Laren Mounde.
Bawtry Phoenix Theatre joined up with Everton Village Players and Retford Little Theatre for a four night drama festival in Everton. The event, entitled 'Three's Company' - took place from 26th to 29th October at Everton Village Hall- seeing three one-act plays performed.
'Caught on the Boundary' - the premiere of a new play penned by our own writing team - led by Steve Kellett (who wrote the hugely successful We're Gonna Win the Cup). The play is a light murder mystery with a cricketing theme.
'A Question of Attribution' by Alan Bennett will be performed by Retford Little Theatre. 'An inquiry in which the circumstances are imaginary but the pictures are real. Anthony Blunt, surveyor of the Queen's pictures tries to solve the riddle of an enigmatic painting and is himself the subject of a more official investigation'.
'Say Something Happened' by Alan Bennett is the contribution from Everton Village Players. 'The Social Services department of the council is preparing a register of the elderly in the area and eager but green June Potter (recently transferred from transport) is dispatched to gather information while obtaining some hands-on experience. Mam and Dad are in their sixties and therefore must be in need of registering - but Mam and Dad, perfectly 'alert', able bodies and street-wise, have no intention of being registered. Thrown by Mam's no-nonsense approach the increasingly desperate June resorts to Mr Farquarson's detailed notes on Conduct of Interviews while Mam sorts her out'. - A highly comic, ironic look at patronizing bureaucracy.