October 2005 - Strangers on a Train

Guy Haines and Charles Bruno meet on a train and, because they are strangers, they think they can say anything while chatting. Bruno suggests that they could get away with murder-he could kill Guy's unfaithful wife while Guy could eliminate his hated father. Guy does not take him seriously, but Bruno is deadly serious. The basis of the classic film by Alfred Hitchcock which starred Farley Granger and Robert Walker.
 

"Strangers on a Train" by Craig Warner, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith 

Director: 

Location: Sheffield Library Theatre

Dates: 11th - 15th October 2005

Tickets: £5 / £6

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Pop Larkin, who makes a fortune from scrap-iron deals but has never paid income tax, lives in rural idyllic bliss with generous-hearted Ma and their six children. When a young, earnest tax official, Mr Charlton, turns up one hot May afternoon in 1957 to investigate he is bewitched immediately by eldest daughter Mariette and it isn't long before he succumbs to the boisterous Larkin family charm and largesse. 

"Time of My Life" by Alan Ayckbourn

Directors: 

Location: Sheffield Library Theatre

Dates: 10th - 14th May 2005

Tickets: £5 / £6

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The classic BBC TV comedy series of the Home Guard of Walmington-on-Sea who battle daily against the Germans and local ARP Warden Hodges, comes to the stage complete with all the well-loved characters: "stupid boy" Pike, "Don't panic, don't panic" Jonesey, "Doomed, we're all doomed!" Fraser, "May I be excused, sir?" Godfrey, and all under the command of the redoutable Captain Mainwaring and his effacing deputy Sergeant Wilson. 

"Dad's Army" by Jimmy Perry and David Croft

Director: Phil Gascoyne

Location: Sheffield Library Theatre

Dates: 8th - 12th February 2005

Tickets: £5 / £6

Captain Mainwaring - Brian Parker

Sergeant Wilson - Tony Webb

Lance Corporal Jones - John Atkinson

Private Fraser - David Bramah

Private Godfrey - Brian Smalley

Private Walker - Martyn Jones

Private Pike - John Moran

Private Sponge - John Jakins

Private Hancock - Peter Howard

Colonel / Vicar - Don Garlick

U-Boat Captain / Private Cheeseman - Rod Duncan

Chief Warden Hodges - Jack Massey

Mr Yeatman - Andrew Jakins

Platoon Members - Roger Rees, Phil Redding

German Sailors - Mark Howard, Roger Rees, Stephen Rhodes, James Roe-Parkin, Glynn Robinson, Matthew Screaton, Marc Whalley

Mrs Gray - Pam Bush

Edith Parish - Abbie McGrail

Mrs Pike - Carolyn Heslop

Mrs Fox - Andrea Howard

Miss Ironside - Edwina Gascoyne

Ivy Samways - Lucy Wells

Waitresses - Lynda Muscroft, Harriet Muscroft

Buffet Attendant / Mrs. Prosser - Maureen Heath

Serviceman - Mark Howard

Porter - Glynn Robinson

Private Day - Alec Thompson / Phil Croft

Town Clark - Stephen Rhodes

Girls in swimming costumes - Celia Bailey, Emma Bushy, Harriet Muscrofty, Lucy Wells  

Director - Phil Gascoyne

Set Design and Construction - Peter Howard, Nick Martin, Bryan Ashcroft, John Jakins, Phil Redding, Graham Ward

Stage Manager - Peter Howard

Sound - Bryan Ashcroft

Lighting - Paul Screaton

Properties - Carolyn Heslop / members of Tudor Players

Continuity - Linda Muscroft

Front of House - Judith Wade

Ticket Secretaries - Geoff & Lynn Randle / Graham & Ann Ward 

Ida, Lucille and Doris are part of a club - The Cemetery Club. Every month they meet at Ida's New York house for tea, then trundle off down to the cemetery to remember the good times and gossip with their late husbands. Then one day they meet Sam and the lives of the three widows will never be the same again.

The Cemetery Club is not a play about death but rather a celebration of life. It is warm and tender and yet, at the same time, raucous and hilarious. It combines belly laughs and a lump in the throat. The audience are left not knowing whether to laugh or cry and end up doing both.

This is a beautifully observed play - gentle, touching and with a wicked sense of humour. What more could you ask of a night at the theatre? 

"The Cemetery Club" by Ivan Menchell

Director: Peter Howard

Location: Sheffield Library Theatre

Dates: 12th - 16th October 2004

Tickets: £4 / £5

Ida  - Andrea Howard

Lucille - Edwina Gascoyne

Doris - Judith Wade

Sam - Jack Massey

Mildred - Pam Bush

Director - Peter Howard

Set Design and Construction - Peter Howard, Bryan Ashcroft, John Jakins, Nick Martin, Brian Parker, Phil Redding

Set Painting - Steve Hepper

Stage Manager - Peter Howard

Stage Crew - Steve Hepper, Andrew Jakins, Phil Redding

Sound - Bryan Ashcroft

Lighting - John Jakins

Properties - Carolyn Heslop / Pam Bush

Continuity - Linda Muscroft

Front of House - David Bramah

Ticket Secretaries - Geoff & Lynn Randle / Graham & Ann Ward 

It’s 1994 and the tight-knit mining community of Grimley, Yorkshire, are fighting to keep their colliery open. Meanwhile, revered band leader, Danny, battles to keep his dispirited band of brass-playing miners together with the dream of qualifying for the National Championships at London’s Albert Hall. 

When the uncertainty around the pit’s future becomes too much for the band members, loyalty is tested, pressure mounts and the community begins to break apart. With their whole way of life at stake, can the band find a way to play on? 

"Brassed Off" by John Godber

Director: Phil Gascoyne

Location: Sheffield Library Theatre

Dates: 11th - 15th May 2004

Tickets: £4 / £5

Shane - Matthew Beard

Phil - Peter Anderson

Jim - Peter Howard

Harry - Ian Walker

Andy - Ross Bannister

Vera - Andrea Howard

Rita - Judith Wade

Sandra - Edwina Gascoyne

Gloria - Abbie McGrail

Danny - Brian Parker

Melody - Charoltte Gascoyne

Whitney - Lizzie Beard

Nurse - Carolyn Heslop

Nurse - Lynda Muscroft 

Director - Phil Gascoyne

Set Design and Construction - Phil Gascoyne, Peter Howard, Bryan Ashcroft, John Jakins, Nick Martin, Phil Redding

Stage Manager - John Jakins

Stage Crew - Steve Hepper, Adam Walker, John Jakins, Phil Redding

Lighting - Paul Screaton

Sound - Bryan Ashcroft

Properties - Carolyn Heslop

Continuity - Lynda Muscroft

Brass Advisors - Alf Wileman, Paul Wileman, Brian Winter

Front of House - Bryan Parker

Ticket Secretaries - Geoff Randle, Graham Ward, Ann Ward 

The sequel to Run for Your Wife finds the bigamist taxi driver John Smith still keeping his two families in different parts of London, both happy and blissfully unaware of each other. However, his teenage children, a girl from one family and a boy from the other, have met on the Internet and are anxious to meet in person since they have so much in common name, surname and taxi driving dad! Keeping them apart plunges John into a hell hole of his own making. His lodger Stanley could be a savior, but he is about to go on holiday with his decrepit old father who turns up thinking he is already at the guest house. The situation spirals out of control as John juggles outrageously with the truth. 

"Caught in the Net" by Ray Cooney

Director: Peter Howard

Location: Sheffield Library Theatre

Dates: February 2004

Tickets: £4 / £5

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