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The Cemetery Club. The Photos.

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Suddenly a week has passed by since we dismantled the set of our last production. We closed on Saturday the 15th November and everyone has been resting after a lot of hard work leading up to the show.

We first performed Ivan Menchell’s The Cemetery Club in 2011 and the opportunity arose to create a new production this year, once again taking on the challenge of a dual set featuring a cemetery meeting place and a homely lounge in the Forest Hills area of New York, coupled with the additional challenge of the localised Jewish New York accent needed to make the most of Menchell’s script and witty one liners.

[P.S. if you are in a theatrical group considering this play then our ‘gravestones’ are still available as props – see the photos – simply get in touch with us to discuss]

Cast (Left to Right): Sue Allan as Doris, Dianne Turner as Ida. Steve Howland as Sam, Janet Drewery as Lucille , and introducing Janet Lamb as Mildred.

View a selection of our photos from dress rehearsal by clicking the link below:

THE CEMETERY CLUB PHOTO GALLERY – CLICK HERE

What Next?

Chill! In the New Year we move on to our May play (you can read more about it here if you can’t wait.) Meanwhile it’s the build up to year end and that big festive event … yep, CHRISTMAAAAAS!

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Set Build

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Wednesday 12th November – Final Dress Rehearsal

We have been working very hard these last few days to assemble the auditorium and build the set for Ivan Menchell’s play – The Cemetery Club.

Now we are ready. Dress tonight – and then tomorrow night it’s curtain up!

Check out our video below.

If you haven’t booked yet, we have seats available Thursday and Saturday (Friday is about full but you can always enquire.)

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Seats still available…

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…for Ivan Menchell’s THE CEMETERY CLUB

THIS NOVEMBER

Thursday 13th, Friday 14th, Saturday 15th

WATCH OUR REHEARSALS PROMO ON YOUTUBE – CLICK BELOW

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4 Weeks To Go

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Yes, just four weeks to our latest production and rehearsals are ongoing along with preparations for our set building and decor activities.

What’s On?
THE CEMETERY CLUB
a comedy by Ivan Menchell

When?
13th, 14th, 15th November

What’s it about?
Three widows in Forest Hill’s New York meet once a month to play canasta, have a drink and to visit the cemetery to pay their respects to their departed husbands. For some, it’s time to consider moving on, for others not so much.

But their routine is to be disrupted by a chance meeting with Sam the butcher who happens to be visiting his own dear departed.

This is a warm and funny play with some witty one-liners and it was a popular hit with our audiences back in 2011 when we first performed it.

So, here’s another chance to either enjoy it once again or come along and see it for the first time.

First performed on Broadway in the 1990s it remains timeless as a comedy about life and moving on. 

Directed by Richard Bateman and performed by Dianne Turner (Ida) Janet Drewery (Lucille), Sue Allan (Doris), Janet Lamb (Mildred) and Steve Howland (Sam).

For tickets see poster below or go to our booking info page here.

Book now!