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2008 - 2009 EAT Season Have A Safe Journey Home! - Please visit again. 4 - 11 October 2008 The Graduate by Terry Johnson Director: Phil Newton 22-29 November 2008 Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas by M R James and Charles Dickens Director: Mark Campbell 31 January - 7 February 2009 Spider’s Web by Agatha Christie Director: Wendy Marsh Edward Alderton Theatre Non - Professional S ’ L I A G I AB Y T R A P 21 - 28 March 2009 Oedipus The King by Sophocles Translated and Directed by Clive Madel BY MIKE LEIGH 9 - 16 May 2009 Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet Director: Peter Griffin 12 - 19 July 2008 2 - 11 July 2009 It Ain’t Half Hot Mum By David Perry and Jimmy Croft Director: Roz Betts Keep up to date with the all the news from our theatre at www.edwardalderton.org Programme 50p Theatre Information Our Next Production For The Edward Alderton Theatre Chairman...................................................Ian Saxton Artistic Director..................................... Mark Campbell Technical Director.................................... Jerry McKeon Publicity.............................................. Mark Campbell Secretary......................................... Maureen Hardwen Treasurer.......................................... Jenny Devonshire Membership Secretary......................... Maureen Hardwen Box Office...........................................Stephanie David Bar Manager................................................. Paul Lay Properties......................................... Jenny Devonshire House Manager................................ Chris Manning-Perry Social Nights are held every Wednesday from 9.00pm except when there is a show on. Advanced Bookings Bookings may be made at the Theatre Box Office during performances or by telephoning 020 8301 5584. No extra charge is made for a permanent booking. Choose your favourite seat and become a regular. Postal bookings can be made by sending a cheque and booking form (available on our website http://www.edwardalderton.org) to Edward Alderton Theatre, c /o 28a Belvedere Road, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA7 4NX. In The Interval The theatre bar serves a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks before and after the show and during the interval. Coffee and a limited range of confectionery are served in the foyer located at the box office during the interval. PLEASE NOTE: The theatre is a STRICTLY non-smoking building and the entire location is non smoking; if you wish to smoke, you will need to walk to the pavement in Brampton Road. The taking of photographs and use of ANY recording equipment in the theatre is strictly forbidden during a performance. MOBILE PHONES SHOULD BE SWITCHED OFF. Please remember that sounds carry in this theatre, especially whispering and scrunching sweet wrappers. This is most distracting to both audience and performers. Thank you. Matt Clowry - Tony Matt was last seen as Conrade in Much Ado About Nothing (April 2008), following straight on from playing the sinister Roat in Wait Until Dark (February 2008). Other appearances at the EAT include Young Bernard and Compton-Miller in Keyboard Skills (2006), the First Priest in Murder in the Cathedral (2006) and Inspector Hearne in Witness for the Prosecution (2005). He works as a project manager for Capita Business Services, the UK’s leading outsourcing company. Linda Gay - Susan Samantha Griggs - Angela This is Samantha’s first appearance at the EAT. Recently she has been working for the Birmingham Stage Company as a storyteller for the Treasure Island and Danny - Champion of the World tours and has appeared in Dick Whittington (Riverside Players, 2007), The Road, (Theatre Royal, 2006) and Cinderella (Chaplins Tours, 2005-6). When she isn’t working as an actress or singer, she is a selfemployed landscape gardener. Sarah Hills - Beverly Sarah recently appeared at the EAT as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (2008). Previous rôles include Adderperle in The Wiz (2006), Caroline in Keyboard Skills (2006), Magrit in The Steamie (2005) and Ginger in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (2004). During the day, she is an examinations administrator for the University of Greenwich. Ian Long - Laurence Ian has performed at the Edinburgh Festival and appeared regularly on the video loop at the Deal Time-Ball Tower as the Ship’s Navigator, but this is his first appearance at the EAT. A teacher at Boxgrove Primary School in Abbey Wood, he is also a musician and songwriter and is currently lead vocalist and bass guitarist for 4 O’Clock Planes. Would patrons please respect the comfort and wishes of others. Please do not smoke in the theatre; do not take food, drink or sweets into the auditorium; ensure that all mobile phones and pagers are switched off during the performances. Thank you. Open Auditions... Open Auditions... Sunday 12 October 2008 12.00: Oedipus the King 1.30: Glengarry Glen Ross 3.00: It Ain’t Half Hot Mum For more details, click on www.edwardalderton.org/auditions.htm Mark Campbell Director Abigail’s Party was last performed at the Edward Alderton Theatre from 12-19 October 1985, directed by Brian Senner. The cast consisted of Vera Robinson (Beverly), Dennis Howlett (Laurence), Rebecca Wyles (Angela), Paul Lay (Tony) and Pam Sage (Susan). A Word from the Director About the Performers Linda’s last rôle at the EAT was as the 1920s flapper girl Polly Perkins in There Goes the Bride (October 2007). Before that she was Andy in Stepping Out (2007), the Scarecrow in The Wiz (2006) and Penny in When Did You Last See Your Trousers? (2005). She is a criminal caseworker for the Home Office. When we last performed Abigail’s Party at the Alderton way back in 1985 (shortly after the Brixton race riots and just before Microsoft released a revolutionary software package called Windows 1.0), we described it as a ‘comic drama’. Another phrase you might want to use is ‘black comedy’. Or even ‘tragi-comedy’. Each term is inadequate, though, in explaining the unique appeal of this timeless - yet quintessentially 1970s - play. Like TV sitcoms The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm, the play’s success lies in its hideously accurate depiction of the ‘comedy of embarrassment’. Desperate attempts to conjure up banal small talk at an awkward social gathering expose the miniscule aspirations of this quintet of disparate characters. Beverly is a graceless social climber, frustrated and repressed by her loveless marriage to estate agent bore Laurence. Ex-footballer Tony rues the day he married the socially inept Angela and takes out his frustrations in aggression towards her (a fact which Beverly seems to find rather alluring). Middle-aged mother Susan, whose daughter Abigail is having a rowdy party down the road, hovers on the edge of the group, clearly regretting her daughter’s teenage freedom and wishing she were anywhere but here. A comedy of social moirés, of the clash of the working and middle classes, Abigail’s Party delights in sophisticated wordplay and subtle (and not-so-subtle) characterizations. Starting out as an improvised piece devised by its original cast of Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, John Salthouse, Janine Duvitsky and Thelma Whiteley, under the guiding hand of Mike Leigh, it was first performed at the Hampstead Theatre in April 1977 and later made into a BBC television play (with a few minor alterations) whereupon it became an overnight sensation. I am really proud of my cast, who have worked very hard in nailing down their parts and have bonded together brilliantly as a team. Although our inspiration has always been the iconic BBC play (how could it not be?), the actors have brought their own personalities to the rôles and I hope you will find much that is fresh and original, as well as reassuringly familiar. Oh, and olives will be available during the interval. For those who like them. Abigail’s Party Directed by Mark Campbell The Crew The Cast Beverly.......................... Sarah Hills Tony............................ Matt Clowry Angela........................... Sam Griggs Susan.............................. Linda Gay The action takes place in the sitting room of Beverly and Laurence Moss, in their home in North London. It is an early evening in 1977. There will be one interval of 20 minutes Assistant Stage Manager............ Yvonne Golding Lighting Design and Rigging..Jerry McKeon .................................. and Christine McKeon Lighting Operation........................Nicola Clark Sound Design................................... Ian Long Sound Operation..........................Nicola Clark Set Design.............................. Mark Campbell Set Construction.. John Vinnels and Ron Andrews Set Decoration and Painting...Mark Campbell and ...............................................Nicola Clark Properties.................... Liz Gillett, Sarah Hills, .......................... Ian Long and Mark Campbell Costumes.................. Liz Gillett and Sarah Hills Please note: There is smoking of cigarettes on stage during this production. This is permitted under the current legislation. With thanks to Erith Playhouse for the hire of the furniture The Crew The Cast Laurence........................... Ian Long Stage Manager............................... Liz Gillett