by SAM AND BELLA SPEWACK
April 9 - 17
It's Christmas Eve, 1910, in French Guiana.
Three Devil's Island "lifers" are at work, repairing the roof of kindly (but inept) storekeeper, Felix Duchotel. Felix manages the store for his nasty-minded, rich cousin, Gaston. Panic strikes when Gaston unexpectedly arrives from France, demanding to examine Felix's accounts, and threatening Felix, his wife and daughter with eviction, if the books don’t balance.
The three Devil's Island "angels" decide to rescue the family. So – with the aid of Joseph's "accounting" skills, and Albert's pet snake, Adolphe – they set about solving the family's problems.
This criminally funny play was brilliantly filmed in 1955, as We're No Angels, starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray.
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Read moreby A R GURNEY
June 12
Tom, an opportunistic young Scott Fitzgerald scholar, tricks his way into the home of a reclusive dowager, Isabel Hoyt, who lives with her socially withdrawn granddaughter. Mrs Hoyt was a legendary intimate of the 1920s Hemingway-Fitzgerald crowd, and Tom suspects she may have a lost chapter of The Great Gatsby among her Golden Age mementos - as well as letters proving that she was the original Daisy Buchanan!
Once she catches on to Tom's game, Isabel even considers giving him the manuscript. But there is a terrible price attached.
Inspired by Henry James’ mysterious novella, The Aspern Papers, A R Gurney’s intriguing, witty updating originally starred Jeff Daniels, Stockard Channing and Irene Worth. IT’s staged reading will star Will Cox, Madeleine Herd and Sheree Sellick.
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Read moreby WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
July 30 - August 7
On his way home from battle, distinguished Scottish war-hero, Macbeth, and his companion, Banquo, are stopped by three witches, who prophesy that Macbeth will become King of Scotland. Rather than wait for the prophecy to fulfil itself - and spurred on by his domineering wife - Macbeth embarks on a terrifying, tyrannical course of bloodshed, to ensure that his ambitions come to fruition.
With its dark, thrilling narrative, its obsessive, driven characters, presided over by witches, ghosts and spectral daggers, Macbeth is many people’s favourite of all Shakespeare’s plays.
Fresh from his triumph in Bent, Matt Hyde will play Macbeth, with Adelaide’s Rebecca Kemp as his Lady.
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Read moreby MELVYN MORROW
18 September
(bonus optional extra)
George Grossmith was a comedian/singer, who, between 1877 and 1889 – from Trial by Jury to The Yeomen of the Guard – created all the principal comic roles for the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. He also wrote many, many comic songs of his own, as well as (with his brother, Weedon) the classic satirical novel, The Diary of a Nobody. After 12 years with the company, Grossmith decided to branch out on his own.
Melvyn Morrow's one-man piece (which has previously starred Dennis Olsen and Anthony Warlow) takes place in Grossmith's dressing room, on his last day with the company. As he reminisces, he performs 16 patter songs and dances from all his G&S roles, as well as several of his own songs.
Brilliant young actor/singer, Ben Francis, has delighted Independent Theatre audiences many times – as Peter Pan in Peter and Alice, the Jazz Singer in The Great Gatsby, Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited, Stephen Hoffman in Old, Wicked Songs and the title character in Don Carlos, to name but a few.
As a special treat, we are offering Patrons and Subscribers the opportunity to jump the public queue, by buying reduced-price tickets to this unique event, before they go on general sale.
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