We are pleased to report that rehearsals have started and are going well for our production of Bull by Mike Bartlett, the writer of   King Charles 111 and BBC TV’s Doctor Foster.

The cast is:

Thomas        Morgan Rees-Davies

Isobel            Poppy Wilde

Tony              Dan Wilby

Carter           Andrew Whittle

The play is being directed by Chris Barltrop.

In addition to a private performance in Stratford -upon -Avon on Friday 20th May, the play will be performed at The Coach House, Malvern

on Friday and Saturday 15th and 16th July and then between Tuesday to Friday 19th to 22nd July at Ludlow Brewery.

Further details to follow..

 

 

 

The auditions for A Chorus of Disapproval will take place on Monday 7th March 2016 at 8.00pm at Little Witley Village Hall, just two days after the final performance of Mermaid. Those that have already expressed an interest in being involved will be sent an Audition Notice. Audition Notices will be available at The Swan Theatre during the  Mermaid run. Anybody wanting to receive the Notice by email should notify us by our Facebook page or by emailing :andrew@greenssolicitors.com

At the request of Ludlow Assembly Rooms the performances of A Chorus of Disapproval have been put back a week and will now take place during the week commencing 20th June.

14th January 2016

 

Following on from the June production, the Company will be returning to The Assembly Rooms in Ludlow during the period 5 – 17 September. This will be our most ambitious venture to date and all to be presented under the title “The 1595 Season”

What we are going to be doing is presenting two Shakespeare plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo & Juliet. The plan is that they will be performed in rep with alternating performances.

Both plays are thought to have been written by William Shakespeare in or about 1595 (hence our label) and there are links between the two. Did the story of Pyramus and Thisbie give Shakespeare the idea for Romeo and Juliet? Or were the young ill fated couple from Verona the subject of a subsequent parody in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

The plays are, and will in our productions be, linked. But we are re-arranging the digits  and both plays will be set not in 1595 but rather …1955.

AUDITIONS NOTICE

Actors are invited to audition for either or both plays. The Director for both productions is Carl Walker, who successfully directed last year’s production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. Audition dates are below:

Audition Day 1: Sun 27 March at Appletree Studio, Ludlow
2pm-3.30pm: Romeo & Juliet auditions
3.30-5pm: The Dream auditions

Audition Day 2: Tues 29 March at Little Witley Village Hall
7-8.30pm: Romeo & Juliet auditions
8.30-10pm: The Dream auditions

Audition Day 3: Wed 30 March at Appletree Studio, Ludlow
7-8.30pm: Romeo & Juliet auditions
8.30-10pm: The Dream auditions

If you’re interested, please email Carl Walker on carl@wild-edric.com and you’ll be sent full audition registration details.

March 2016

We can now reveal the confirmed production for June 2016. It is the comedy, A Chorus of Disapproval by Alan Ayckbourne and it is to be presented at The Assembly Rooms, Ludlow the week commencing 13 June.

A diffident widower attempts to escape loneliness by joining

the local amateur light operatic society. By accident rather than

design (in fact, by not saying “no” to anything be it a request to

obtain confidential information from his company or an offer of

illicit sex) he advances from a small part to the lead. Parallels

are drawn between The Beggar’s Opera and the day to day

activities of the society which is performing it.

” A brilliance and invention remarkable even by his standards”  (Financial Times)

“Symmetrically shaped, psychologically acute and painfully, heart breakingly funny” (Guardian)

7 male and 6 female parts

 

 

 

 

 

 

The cast for this Autumn’s production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is now complete, and we’re delighted to announce the actors whom we’re so excited to be working with on this production:

BENEDICK…Morgan Rees-Davies

BEATRICE…Sarah Palmer

HERO…Poppy Wilde

CLAUDIO…Dan Wilby

DON PEDRO…Lewis Jones

DON JOHN…Andrew Whittle

LEONATO…Mark Topping

ANTONIO…Tim Cooke

BORACHIO…Ian Seddon

CONRADE…Peter Gillham

MARGARET…Hannah Pritchard

URSULA…Cat Smith

DOGBERRY…Chris Balrtrop

VERGES…Wayne Swann

WATCHMAN 1…Alys Wood

WATCHMAN 2…Rosie Glendinning

FRIAR FRANCIS…Jonathan Ormond

BALTHAZAR…Alys Wood

SEXTON…Ewan Gibb

The cast for the Richard Eyre adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts at The Conquest in Bromyard, Herefordshire between 26 -28 March 2015 is as follows:

REGINA ENGSTRAND Hannah Pritchard
JACOB ENGSTRAND Andrew Whittle
PASTOR MANDERS Chris Barltrop
HELENE ALVING Carolyn Blamey
OSWALD ALVING Chris Walthorne

Director Malc Williams
Sound and Wild Edric Media
Lightning Design

Happy New Year to one and all.
The first production of the year will the be the 2013 Richard Eyre adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts at The Conquest in Bromyard, Herefordshire between 26th and 28th March inclusive. The cast and director, Malc Williams, have the first rehearsal on 7th January.
Joining the company for the first time are: Chris Barltrop, Chris Walthorne and Hannah Pritchard.