Theatre

The Theatre Group is a very active group which has been successfully established for a number of years. The actual nature of the group enables us to accommodate as many members as wish to join. So, if you would like to join this happy crowd, please let us know.

 

On enrolment, you will be given a programme of future matinee performances. We have to book the seats a long way ahead and pay for the tickets two months in advance of each show. A reply slip for each show will be given to you and you return the slips to us at the appropriate time with your cheque.

 

We usually book one performance a month, but we do have a break over the Christmas period.

 

Theatre Days which take place at Salisbury Theatre are particularly popular. The day is divided into two parts and you are free to attend both or just one of the sessions. The morning session starts at 11.30 am and ends at 1pm. It is an informal group with no allocated seats and we meet in the main theatre. It gives the audience a chance to meet the Director, the cast and some members of the production team. Discussions take place as to the history of the play, the set design, the reasons for the director making certain decisions, etc. The audience is encouraged to participate, which makes for an interesting, and often amusing, morning.

 

The second part of the day is the matinee performance which starts at 2.30 pm.

 

We have recently attended performances at the Salisbury Theatre of “The Glass Menagerie"and“Low Pay? Won't Pay!".During the summer, we went twice to Chichester Minerva Theatre to see "Bingo" (about the last months of Shakespeare's life) and a double-bill, Sheridan's "The Critic" and "The Real Inspector Hound" by Tom Stoppard - all magnificent performances. We rounded off the season with a visit to Stratford-upon-Avon to see "The Winter's Tale" - superb.

Our current programme is as follows:

 

"A Voyage Round My Father" by John Mortimer (fully booked)

 

"Death and the Maiden" by Ariel Dorfman (fully booked)

 

"The Picture" by Phillip Massinger in November (taking bookings up to 16th September)

 

"With a Song in my Heart" a celebration of the music of Rodgers & Hammerstein. This is in January and bookings will start in November.

 

We do not provide transport, but a number of our members are happy to offer others a lift.

 

Newcomers welcome. Contacts see panel right: