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Director: Jean Renoir (son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir) It's 1890 and Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) café 'Le Paravent Chinois' featuring his mistress, belly-dancer Lola, goes slumming in Montmartre, where the then old-fashioned cancan is still danced. There he conceives the idea of reviving the cancan as the feature of a new, more popular establishment and meets Nini, a laundress and natural dancer whom he hopes to make the star of his new show. But a tangled maze…
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Malvern Theatre Players (Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre) 46th Season Dancing at Lughnasa By Brian Friel Dancing at Lughnasa, set in the summer of 1936 Ireland was hailed by Time magazine as “the most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie”. The story of five sisters, living a fragile life in rural Ireland, is told through flashbacks of one of the sisters’ illegitimate son, Michael. Though the sisters’ tragic fates are revealed through Michael’s memories…
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Anomaly Presents CRUMBLE BY THE SEA Mr Thumb and his daughter Georgina come to the town of Crumble-by-the-Sea to take part in a baking competition to bake the biggest pastry to fill the King’s belly. There are rumours in the town of a dragon in the mountains. Mr Thumb just can’t get the oven hot enough to bake this pastry, so Georgina sets out on a quest to find something hot enough to heat the oven. Relaxed Performances: Wednesday…
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Performed by the award winning Natura Contemporary Theatre Company, The Gardening Times, tells the story of how a North Gloucestershire garden was created by the Lady of the House, the Head Gardener, the Under Gardener and He-Who-Cuts-The-Grass. Humorous and engaging, The Gardening Times, is written by sisters, Angela and Caroline Summerfield (Jane Austen and The Cheltonians - Best Stage Drama 2021 Writer's Guild nominee), as an uplifting response to our present times. Starring the award winning actress, Ellie Darvill. WRITTEN BY: ANGELA…
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Starring Liz Grand and directed by Chris Jaeger When Shakespeare died he famously left his wife Anne only one thing; the Second Best Bed. It has long been debated if this was the ultimate insult or a private joke between a loving couple. It is the night of Shakespeare’s funeral. The wake has finished and the mourners have all gone home leaving Anne Hathaway to remember her life with the most talented playwright the world has ever seen". Or…
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Starring Liz Grand as Clementine Churchill Written by Kit Hunter Sir Winston Churchill was recently voted No.1 in the top 100 Britons of all time by a nationwide poll of over a million voters. The epitome of strength, stubbornness and the British bulldog, his inspirational leadership helped win the Second World War, and his parliamentary career ensure that he was responsible for many of the momentous decisions which helped shape this ‘sceptred isle’. He was an MP for…
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The Mystery of Agatha Christie’s Eleven Lost Days Starring Liz Grand as Agatha Christie by Chris Jaeger Agatha Christie was one of the greatest thriller writers of all time and certainly the most prolific. In 1926, she was at the centre of a mystery as perplexing as any of her fiction, a series of events which sparked one of the biggest and most extensive police hunts in history. Her crashed car was discovered in Surrey and the famous author…
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