The 2008-2009 season was Saddleworth Players 75th anniversary season. You can take a look through a few pictures from the plays by clicking on the links to the left.
Gaslight, by Patrick Hamilton
After this play had been made into a film the word ‘gaslighting’ became widely used to mean ruthlessly manipulating an individual for extremely wicked reasons into believing something other than the truth. Paula, trying to forget the dreadful night when her aunt was murdered, returns to the house with her husband after many years.
An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde
This is a period comedy exploring social hypocrisy. Mrs Chevely threatens to expose Sir Robert Chiltern’s secret and ruin his career, but if she wants to be a successful blackmailer, her own reputation would need to be whiter than white.
Make Way for Lucia, by John van Druten
In this gentle 1930s comedy the two main protagonists, Mapp and Lucia, vie for the position as Queen Bee of the little village of Tilling. Their neighbours are drawn into the battle as we move through the summer from the Art Show to the dizzy heights of the pageant.
The Shell Seekers, by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham (adapted from the novel by Rosamunde Pilcher)
Penelope Keeting, recuperating after a heart attack, longs for Cornwall, where her father painted ‘The Shellseekers’. The future of the painting is the background to this moving story of family loyalties.
Rumours, by Neil Simon
This is fast-paced, hectic comedy, set in the tastefully renovated house of Charlie and Myra Brock, the couple we never see. Four couples turn up to the party, but when Ken and Chris Gorman discover Charlie upstairs bleeding from a gunshot wound, they desperately have to cover it up.
