The Thetford Players present a trio of one-act plays showcasing our junior members, our adult members and a combined play with both adult and junior members. The performance will take place as follows: –

Date:      

Saturday 19 July 2014 

Time:      

3.00pm – 5.00pm (doors open at 2.30pm)

Venue:      

The Carnegie Room, Cage Lane, Thetford, IP24 2DS

Ticket Prices: 

£6 each or £20 for a group of four (standard seating)

£7 each or £25 for a group of four (rake/tiered seating)

 

Play one: ‘Can You See It From Here?’ by Geoff Bamber (junior members)

The performance of this play by the Hereford Junior Players won the Best Junior Play award at Hereford Drama Festival, 2013 and the adjudicator’s award at the Willow Guild Festival, 2013.

Thetford Players member Maria Cooke will be making her directing debut with this play which is to be performed by junior members only. The play is a science fiction comedy especially for children set in a galaxy of diversely colored planets, each of which is on the brink of declaring war on the others. When news of impending mayhem reaches the Control Center of Inter-Galactic Security, it happens to be a weekend and suitable operatives are in short supply. Can Eric, the computer nerd, and Jenny, a secretary on her first day at work, prevent a horrifying conflict? A task, it should be said, hardly made any easier by the influence of unscrupulous dark-side cosmic villain, Lord Velcro.

Play 2: ‘A Human Write’ by Amy Sutton (adult members)

The production of this play by the Glow Theatre Group gained the adjudicator’s award for the director and overall runner up in the Southern Counties Drama Festival, 2013.

Jo Cooper will be directing this play which will have a cast from our adult membership. This is a fascinating one-act drama that uses mime and rhyme to take us into the mind of a writer who is grappling not only with their writing but also with their personal life as they desperately attempt to strike up a relationship with someone they see regularly on the bus. Well paced and gathering speed, the play uses the chorus to reveal the writer’s thoughts – sometimes cogent, sometimes chaotic – come to life as the surreal become real.

Play 3: ‘Three Nil Down at Half Time’ by Jonathan Edgington (adult and junior members)

The production by the Watlington Young Players won Best Youth Production at the 2013 Hunstanton Drama Festival.

Jo Cooper and Maria Cooke will be co-directing this one-act play which features a mixed cast of adult and junior members. The girls’ soccer team is on a losing streak – until a half-time bet leads to a change of management! Will this alter the outcome of the match?!

Tickets for all Thetford Players productions may be purchased online, over the telephone or in-person from our Box Office at:-

The Leaping Hare Tourist Office, Belmont House, 20 King Street, Thetford, IP24 Tel: 01842 751975

Website:  www.leapinghare.org  

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