March
Our 2011 Drama Festival Production
Set in June 1982 at the time of the Falklands War,
three British tank crew members return to
Normandy to revisit
the scene of one of their battles from the Second World War. During the
trip,
their attention turns to one memory which stands out in particular: when their
Sherman
tank was disabled and they were forced to spend 24 hours in a small
French village where a
particularly unpleasant incident occurred.
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Production Team |
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| Director | Colin Lawrence | |
| Stage Manager | Judy Hanson | |
| Sound Design | Graham Potter | |
| French Dialogue Coach | Jerome Faissat | |
| Production Assistant | Brenda Cottis | |
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Cast To Be Announced |
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Further information: colinlawrence@bawds.org
April 2011
Five old friends rally round to support their mutual friend
Colin after the sudden death of his fiancé.
Organising a tea party to welcome
him back proves to be the trigger for unresolved tensions among
the group to
resurface with a vengeance. When Colin arrives, the others are baffled to find
that, far
from needing their help, he is blissfully happy with his memories of
the time he spent with his fiancé.
His presence makes it uncomfortably apparent
that it is the others in the group
who need consoling for their lost dreams and
disintegrating marriages.
CLICK HERE for Audition Details
Further information:
nickwarburton@bawds.org
July 2011
The Summer estate of Mme Ranevskaya is
in debt, the mortgage is due for payment.
Her family and servants still
live there, but she is returning after many years. A landowner,
Lopakhin
advises her that her beloved Cherry Orchard must be sold to pay the debts,
but
it could be saved if she agrees to letting tenants onto a portion of the land
for summer holiday homes.
Ranevskaya cannot bear that idea and neither
can her family or servants. Will she sell the land
and save the Cherry
Orchard? The play explores with good humour the relationship
between old
and new Russia; the old families and their 'rivals' the nouveau riche
who have
all the money but no 'class' and 'heritage'.
Further information:
brendacottis@bawds.org
December 2011
It's three days before Christmas at
St Andrew's Hospital in London.
Dr David Mortimer is about to
address a neurologists' convention. which will probably earn him a knighthood.
While putting the final touches to his speech an old flame, Jane Tate, arrives
and announces that their liaison years ago resulted in son, Leslie,
who is
downstairs desperate to meet his dad. Frantic to hide this catastrophic
news from
his wife and the hospital authorities, David is forced to invent not
one but two non-existent husbands for
Jane and enlist the help of his colleague
Hubert Bonney. Events are further complicated by the
presence of a police
sergeant, a wandering senile patient, an assortment
of matrons (real and
otherwise), a syringe full of tranquilizer and the costumes for the hospital
pantomime!
Further information: colinlawrence@bawds.org
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