Theatre Group Julie Horsman 80862704 & Chris Farleigh 8086 2882

Forthcoming Theatre Visits

2 Plays Broadcast Live from the National Theatre at the Picture House Harbour Lights, Ocean Village, Soton
The Last of the Haussmans A new play by Stephen Beresford.
Thursday 11th October 7pm Tickets 13.00 Julie Walters plays Judy Haussman with Rory Kinnear and Helen McCrory as her children in this eagerly anticipated new play: a funny, touching and sometimes savage portrait of a family that's losing its grip. Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high society drop-out Judy Haussman remains in spirit with the Ashrams of the 1960s while holding court in her dilapidated Art Deco house on the Devon coast. After an operation, she is joined by wayward offspring Nick and Libby, sharp-eyed granddaughter Summer, local doctor Peter, and Daniel, a troubled teenager who makes use of the family's crumbling swimming pool. Together they share a few sweltering months in this chaotic world of all-day drinking, infatuations, long-held resentments, free love and failure Cast includes: Rory Kinnear, Isabella Laughland, Helen McCrory, Matthew Marsh, Julie Walters..

Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare Stars Simon Russell Beale

Thursday 1st November 7pm Tickets 13.00

Wealthy friend to the rich and powerful, patron of the arts and ostentatious host, Timon of Athens is surrounded by freeloaders and sycophants. He vastly outspends his resources but, finding his coffers empty, reassures his loyal steward that all will be well. When he calls upon his associates, instead of offering help, they hang him out to dry. After a final, vengeful banquet, Timon withdraws to a literal and emotional wasteland, living off roots and pouring curses on a morally bankrupt Athens.

Tiger Tail by Tennessee Williams

Tuesday 9th of October 7.30pm Tickets 16.00 (15.30) Nobody writes about desire as well as Tennessee Williams his plays seethe with what it is to be human, and to be attracted to another. Tiger Tail is Tennessee Williams 1977 stage version of his film script for Baby Doll, the 1956 film Archie Lee Meighan has fallen on hard times since Silva Vaccaro has set up a competing cotton gin and siphoned off all Meighan's business. Meighan's marriage to Baby Doll McCorkle cannot be consummated until she reaches age twenty, two days hence. Meighan torches Vaccaros cotton gin, but Vaccaro sets his sights on Baby Doll .

Nuffield Theatre

Our Countrys Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker Theatre

16th October 7.30pm Tickets 8.50

Nuffield

Our Countrys Good is the true story of a ragbag cast of convicts, who put on a play under the guidance of an earnest young marine officer. As the barriers between captors and captives break down, they start to discover each other, both onstage and behind the scenes...

The Scared Flame by Somerset Maugham

Tuesday 13 November
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7.30pm

Tickets 16.00 (15.30)

Nuffield Theatre

What happened on the night the young Great War hero, Maurice Tabret, died at home in his bed? His doctor says he died from natural causes, but his nurse points a finger of suspicion at his beautiful wife, Stella... Putting a twist on the classic murder mystery, this part thriller, part love story is by the enduringly popular playwright and novelist, W Somerset Maugham, whose brilliance is discovered afresh in this vivid new production. This tense and graceful play is a fascinating exploration of love, devotion and family.

The Spire by William Golding, adapted by Roger Spottiswoode Salisbury Playhouse Thursday 15th November 2.15pm Tickets 15.00
The stage premiere of the novel by William Golding, about the men who conceived and built the spire on Salisbury Cathedral.

Dean Jocelin has a vision. A spire, 400 feet high, pointed like an arrow to God, a pinnacle of faith, bursting from the heart of the Cathedral. But no one has built that high before. There are no foundations. There are inadequate funds. And when Master Builder, Roger Mason, begins to work, the fragility of Jocelins vision soon becomes apparent. As the spire slowly rises, dark shadows are cast across the lives of all involved in this epic saga of faith versus reason.

A Christmas Carol at The Lighthouse, Poole

11th December 2012 7.30pm Tickets 10 Music composed by Alison Stephens and performed by Norman Chalmers Mike Maran tells the Dicken's classic story a mesmeric storyteller (The Stage) and Norman Chalmers plays the music on concertina, tin whistle and thumb piano. Scrooge is a terrible miser,but he cant be all bad. He could hardly become so beautifully transformed at the end of the story if he never had the potential in the first place. The ghosts are not so frightening, well maybe just a little bit scary. They lead Scrooge down the roads of the past, present, and future because he wants to see everything that they can show him. Scrooges nephew, Fred, laughs all the way through the story. If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blessed in a laugh than Scrooges nephew all I can say is that Id like to know him too.

And for anyone interested Chinwaggers are running a trip to The Theatre Royal, Winchester to see

Radio Times The Musical

Wednesday the 28th November 1.30pm There a re a few places left Chris Starring Gary Wilmot & Sara Crowe and My Girl Tickets 15.00

Music by Noel Gay

From the composer of Me

Gary Wilmot (Chicago, Me and My Girl) and Olivier Award winner Sara Crowe (Private Lives, Four Weddings and a Funeral) lead a cast of fifteen actor-musicians from the acclaimed Tony and Olivier award-winning Watermill Theatre in this gloriously funny musical comedy. In the heart of Londons Blitz-torn West End, the cast of BBCs light-entertainment radio show, Variety Bandwagon are doing their bit for the war effort. But with the bombs falling outside, can star of the show Sammy Shaw hang on to his leading lady and broadcast live to America for the first time? Chock-full of quick-fire gags, side-splitting routines and classic songs from one of our best of British musical talents, Noel Gay (Me and My Girl), Radio Times features forties favourites such as Run Rabbit Run, Hey Little Hen, My Thanks To You and Theres Something About a Soldier. A joyously entertaining night out. "Radio Times gives us a couple of golden hours in the company of Gays songs"