Theatre

Christmas 2010 - We are currently at the planning stage of a story telling event to be held in the Old Library in December. If it happens, it will be a very special occasion!

From a previous production ....

Well the Dun Resting Theatre Company have done it again. Brilliant!

You know when you ‘channel hop’ through the many TV stations looking for something interesting and suddenly you find something that catches your attention? And then it usually takes the viewer less than a second distinguish between real life dialogue or two actors talking to each other by way of a script. There were very many intervals in the ‘Flip Side’ when it became almost too real. The fast talking girl talk between Sharon and Candida, played by Emma Vickery and Lucia Barber, made one feel uneasily guilty of eavesdropping.

Their respective husbands, Theo and Julian (Dick Smith and Ben Simpson) played to perfection the parts of young husbands enjoying and appreciating the opportunities presented by the relaxation of social strictures of the late 1960s.  The play is a fairly light and angst free look at the phenomena of wife swapping ...or, from the viewpoint of the freshly empowered sixties women, husband swapping.

The Old Library transformed itself into a comfy sitting room in a Sussex country house and was the perfect and intimate backdrop to the matrimonial confusion that ensues.

Funny, poignant and beautifully staged.

Oxfam Furniture in Shirley were kind enough to lend us some furniture for the production. We organised an after-show collection and this amounted to £78.05. Our target was £46 which would train a midwife in Africa. Thank you to everyone who contributed.