Our October 13th - 16th play/s this year are House and Garden and will be running simultaneously at Thameside theatre Grays. Garden will take place on the stage as normal but House will be running at a separate location situated within the complex. So there will be actors running up and down stairs in all sorts of panic and undress from one play to the other. It will not be easy but it will surely be fun for both the players and the audience/s. Therefore if you wish to see both shows, you will need to come on two separate nights. House will be situated within 'the zone' on level 1 and seats 50 people. This show is buy one ticket get one free so that you are able to see both shows on separate nights but be warned, tickets are selling fast...In fact we nearly have a full house!!!
The play/s
Up at the house, Teddy has dreams of a bright political future as the new local MP. The only problem barring his path is an urgent need to clean his private life before the Prime Minister's special envoy arrives. Unfortunately there can't be many of us with more complex private lives than Teddy's. How can he ever hope to create the right impression when practically nobody's speaking to him and if he can't understand a single word of the few that are? To cap it all, it just has to be the day of the garden fete. Down in the garden, frenzied preparations are underway for the annual village fete. Will the young maypole dancers pull it off? Is there someone sinister lurking in the bushes? Where on Earth are the rest of the Morris team? And just what does go on in the fortune teller's tent? Clouds are gathering everywhere, in the sky and within personal lives. Old Warn, the gardener, watches all this with casual indifference. He's been through storms before. But, as he later discovers, never one quite like this.
House and Garden are two plays designed to run simultaneously with the same cast. The cast moving between the House and the Garden. The plays can be seen in any order and, theoretically, one without the other. However, maximum enjoyment of the play comes from seeing both plays.
The play/s
Up at the house, Teddy has dreams of a bright political future as the new local MP. The only problem barring his path is an urgent need to clean his private life before the Prime Minister's special envoy arrives. Unfortunately there can't be many of us with more complex private lives than Teddy's. How can he ever hope to create the right impression when practically nobody's speaking to him and if he can't understand a single word of the few that are? To cap it all, it just has to be the day of the garden fete. Down in the garden, frenzied preparations are underway for the annual village fete. Will the young maypole dancers pull it off? Is there someone sinister lurking in the bushes? Where on Earth are the rest of the Morris team? And just what does go on in the fortune teller's tent? Clouds are gathering everywhere, in the sky and within personal lives. Old Warn, the gardener, watches all this with casual indifference. He's been through storms before. But, as he later discovers, never one quite like this.
House and Garden are two plays designed to run simultaneously with the same cast. The cast moving between the House and the Garden. The plays can be seen in any order and, theoretically, one without the other. However, maximum enjoyment of the play comes from seeing both plays.
Cast
Teddy Platt - Wayne Prince Trish Platt - Jill Snelling
Sally Platt - Natalie Williams Giles Mace - John Scowen
Joanna Mace - Wendy Ward Jake Mace - Jonathan Michell
Gavin Ryng Maine - Dave Carey Barry Love - Jim Wilkinson
Lindy Love - Madeleine Emmerson Lucille Cadeau - Julie Dennis
Fran Briggs - Brenda Sansom Warn Coucher - Martyn Williams
Izzie Truce - Jayne Jones Pearl Truce - Katrina Mager
Director - Vic Gray
Teddy Platt - Wayne Prince Trish Platt - Jill Snelling
Sally Platt - Natalie Williams Giles Mace - John Scowen
Joanna Mace - Wendy Ward Jake Mace - Jonathan Michell
Gavin Ryng Maine - Dave Carey Barry Love - Jim Wilkinson
Lindy Love - Madeleine Emmerson Lucille Cadeau - Julie Dennis
Fran Briggs - Brenda Sansom Warn Coucher - Martyn Williams
Izzie Truce - Jayne Jones Pearl Truce - Katrina Mager
Director - Vic Gray
