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The wait is over: new season announced

For those of you have eagerly been waiting to find out what our new 2017-18 season will be – wait no longer.

boredom-1977519_960_720Thank you for your patience but as always it has been a challenge to find plays that tick all the boxes, not least the matching of members’ availability.

But now we have obtained scripts and licences to perform and we can announce the programme.

This coming season we are pleased to have found three plays that cover a range of comedy genres from three different playwrights; a lighthearted and sentimental comedy drama from the pen of Peter Gordon, always popular with our audiences; some clever humour from the master, Alan Ayckbourn, with a less well known and quite different play – if you like Ayckbourn you’ll love it. If you don’t like Ayckbourn – you’ll love it.  And finally we bring most of our members onto the stage to bring you an hilarious farce from the master of farce; Ray Cooney.

Right, time to get out pen, stylus or finger and open your diary, online calendar or whatever and reserve your viewing dates.

Generations Apart by Peter Gordon    October 26th, 27th, 28th 2017 

RolePlay by Alan Ayckbourn     January 25th, 26th, 27th 2018  

It Runs In The Family by Ray Cooney    April 26th, 27th, 28th 2018

Watch out for the next posts which will give full details on each play and our latest ticketing news.  

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Xmas is (almost) upon us…

Still looking for that last minute Christmas present?  A value for money bargain? Something with a strong Christmas flavour? For your partner, friends, or just to treat yourself?

Ah, you guessed, didn’t you?  Yes it’s tickets for ‘A Kick In The Baubles’.    We know you are busy this week getting ready for that festive period just days away but if you have a moment it’s not a bad idea to book your tickets now.  Sales are going very well and we are ahead of our usual position with half of all seats already sold for every night – so if you want to get a good seat in your preferred rows then booking now is essential.

Meanwhile rehearsals have been continuing apace and we will fit in some work over the festive break to maintain momentum.  It’s now that our publicity starts to kick in.  We already have our posters ready for distribution and today we have been listed in the Hull City of Culture 2017 Events – click here to view our full listing.

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Our listing on Hull City of Culture 2017 website

Now it may be optimistic to think that we will get the same response as Richard Bean’s ‘The Hypocrite’ from it – or to crash the servers as with the ‘In With a Bang’ fireworks display – but you never know 😉

 

KITB 1: a production blog

As we begin twelve weeks of hard work for our next performance in January this seems a good opportunity to follow the process from the beginning of how we put on a play production with some regular (well, irregular) posts in this blog as we progress.  No, I don’t know what a blog is either but it sounds good.

Last Saturday we were performing our final night of ‘Spirit Level’ and six days later we have already had two rehearsals for the next. Now that is unusual but we need to get a Kick start to Kick In The Baubles – it’s a full-on comedy and we aim to be ambitious and we are asking our professional director to push us. Gareth Tudor Price is well known locally from his time at Hull Truck working with John Godber as Artistic Director.  He has been a long time supporter of our group and, his freelance production employment permitting,  has offered to produce this play with our own Janet Drewery.

When he heard that we were reading this play over the summer break and were considering it for our 2016/7 season he very kindly offered up his spare time to guide us in its production.  He had originally commissioned, produced and developed this play at Hull Truck and is keen to see what we can do with it. Having just finished his production of ‘Moby Dick’ in York, Gareth was keen to get some rehearsal miles under our belt.

Fresh from set-destruction the previous day, last Monday’s meeting had a pretty full attendance for a formal general meeting but then went straight into the first rehearsal night for KITB and….wow!  But more on that in our next post so if you haven’t already, sign up with your email to ensure you don’t miss a thing!

Booking? Click on this link: Use our ticket enquiry form

Spirit Level – one week to go!

“Darling! Look….. the ‘Inspector Sharp’ books! Every single one”

Jack Cameron’s novels – how will they feature in ‘Spirit Level’, our next play?  Come and find out….

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