Tri Theatre Adventure
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS by Sir Alan Ayckbourn
At Archway Theatre: Friday 11th July, Saturday 12th, Monday 14th, Tuesday 15th, Thursday 17, Friday 18th, Saturday 19th, Monday 21st, Tuesday 22nd, Thursday 24th, Friday 25th, Saturday 26th July 2008
Archway Performances start 19:45
Archway Matinee start 15:00
The Archway Theatre Company will be joining Lewes Theatre Club, from Lewes and The Oast Theatre, from Tonbridge, to produce this hilarious but touching and near-the knuckle trilogy of plays. Brilliantly funny and superbly plotted, Damsels in Distress is a thrilling whirlwind of marriage, lust, life, boyfriends, gangsters and parents, getting in and out of trouble - just in the nick of time.
Audiences will have the opportunity to see each production at the Archway Theatre, as each company takes its own production to the participating theatres.
Game Plan – Archway Theatre – Directed by Eddie Redfern
At Archway Theatre: Friday 11th July, Monday 14th, Tuesday 15th, Thursday 24th, Friday 25th, Saturday 26th July 2008 (Matinee & Evening).
Teenager Sorrel’s only idea of how to support her abandoned mother is to set up as a hooker, advertising on the internet and persuading her reluctant school friend to act as her maid. The play becomes a farce about bodies, police questioning and intrusive media.
Flat Spin – Lewes Theatre Club – Directed by Cathryn Parker
At Archway Theatre: Thursday 17th July, Friday 18th, Saturday 19th July 2008 (Matinee & Evening).
Rosie, a young actress, has been rejected for her big break into TV. Whilst employed to water plants in a riverside apartment block, she meets a handsome neighbour who believes she is the owner next-door…… a role she assumes to cheer herself up. But nothing is what it seems….
Role Play – Oast Theatre - Directed by Ann Mattey
At Archway Theatre: Saturday 12th July (Matinee & Evening), Monday 21st, Tuesday 22nd July 2008.
Mis-matched Justin and Julie-Ann are to introduce their respective parents to each other over dinner - his upper crust alcoholic mother, and her bigoted Yorkshire father and prim mother. Somehow the party expands to include a lap-dancer with suicidal tendencies, and a gun toting minder who works for her violent boyfriend……