AUDITION - Spring 2025 Production of 'The Ladykillers'
We would like to invite all our acting members and friends of the club to an audition for the Marlborough Dramatic Club's Spring 2025 production of 'The Ladykillers' by Graham Linehan, which will now be directed by the club chairman, Bill Wells. He has asked for this new audition and all parts are open for casting. The play will be performed 10-12 April 2025 at Brentwood School Memorial Hall. (Performances to be Thursday and Friday evenings 7:30pm and Saturday matinee 2:30pm). Rehearsals are planned to begin week commencing in early January, Monday and Wednesday evenings, also at Brentwood School.
The audition will be on 10 September at 7.30pm at Bill Wells' home in Hutton. Please let the Bill know if you will be attending via
The Ladykillers is a classic black comedy set in the 1950s where a sweet little old lady, alone in her house, is pitted against a gang of criminal misfits who will stop at nothing. Posing as amateur musicians, Professor Marcus and his gang rent rooms in the lopsided house of sweet but strict Mrs Wilberforce. The villains plot to involve her, unwittingly, in Marcus' brilliantly conceived heist job. The police are left stumped but Mrs Wilberforce becomes wise to their ruse and Marcus concludes that there is only one way to keep the old lady quiet. With only her parrot, General Gordon, to help her, Mrs Wilberforce is alone with five desperate men. But who will be forced to face the music?
There are six male and two female roles available, plus possibly a few non-speaking female roles:
- Constable Macdonald
- Mrs Louisa Wilberforce
- Professor Marcus
- Major Courtney
- Harry Robinson
- One-Round
- Louis Harvey
- Mrs Jane Tromleyton
- Mrs Wilberforce’s Guests
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Autumn 2024 Quiz Evening
Now a popular annual Autumnal event, our fund-raising quiz night, expertly hosted by Reg Wheeler, returns this September!
Saturday 21 September, 7 for 7:30pm start
Please bring your own drinks and nibbles.
Tickets are £10 per person. (Max eight per table please.)
Shenfield Parish Hall, (main room), 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, CM15 8LB.
To book - please ring Harry on 07746 915348 by 14 September. (For how to pay for your tickets please check the payment section on our website.)
There will be a raffle to help raise funds to be put towards producing our next play.
We look forward to seeing you there.
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Autumn 2024 Production - 'Ten Times Table' by Alan Ayckbourn
The Club committee is pleased to confirm that the Autumn 2024 production will be Alan Ayckbourn's 'Ten Times Table' directed by Graham Poulteney.
We can now show the fabulous flyer for the production, kindly designed for us by Paul Sparrowham. Please check back to this website over the next few weeks for more news on the production and, in September, information on how to book
This comedy follows the increasingly rancorous attempts of a committee to organise a pageant celebrating the 'Pendon Twelve' rebellion, culminating in a re-enactment that mirrors the original event all too closely.
The majority of the cast who auditioned originally a couple of years ago are still able to fill their parts and will be taking to the Memorial Hall stage back at Brentwood School 24-26 October 2024. (Thursday and Friday 7:30pm, Saturday matinee 2:30pm)
Our cast includes:
Ray - Colin Richardson
Donald - Roy Hobson
Helen - Juliette Bird
Sophie - Louise Richardson
Eric - Andrew Chesney
Audrey - June Fitzgerald
Lawrence - Alan Thorley
Tim - Patrick Stevens
Philippa - Josie Bruty
Max - Graham Nash
This production of 'Ten Times Table' is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.