Sponsored by the Tanner Brothers Business Centre
September 24th – October 1st, 2011
Doors open 7pm,
show commences 7.30pm
(no Monday performance)
In a Docklands apartment, Justin and Julie-Ann are preparing dinner, while a storm rages outside. They have invited Justin’s mother Arabella and her latest foreign lothario to meet Julie-Ann’s parents, Derek and Dee, for the first time. Justin and Julie-Ann are intent on getting married although there are already a few cracks in the relationship, not least Julie-Ann’s humour bypass. When a dishevelled blonde drops into the proceedings, the storm moves inside...
Tickets on sale to subscribers September 6th, open sale September 13th. Booking line 01457 874644, or e-mail bookings@saddleworthplayers.org.uk
Sponsored by Saddleworth Rotary
November 19th – 26th, 2011
Doors open 7pm,
show commences 7.30pm
(no Monday performance)
Barbara Love is a famous TV star who, just before her Christmas party, is threatened by a chilling voice on her answering machine and then receives a macabre present boxed in a miniature coffin. Not so much a ‘whodunnit’ but more a ‘who’s going to do it’, as along troop the staff of her television show for the Christmas buffet, each one of them with a motive to murder her. The tension mounts as this cunningly plotted thriller twists and turns towards the final spine-tingling revelation.
Tickets on sale to subscribers November 1st, open sale November 8th. Tickets cost £7.50. Booking line 01457 874644, or e-mail bookings@saddleworthplayers.org.uk
Sponsored by Saddleworth Vistas
January 28th – February 4th, 2012
Doors open 7pm,
show commences 7.30pm
(no Monday performance)
Four out-of-condition, middle-aged businessmen sent off on a team building exercise in the Lake District succeed in being the first people ever to get shipwrecked on an island on Derwentwater. Bound in fog, menaced by wildlife and cut off from the world, this perfunctory middle-class exercise turns into a carnival of recriminations, French cricket and sausages. What should have been a bonding process for Gordon, Angus, Roy and Neville turns into a muddy, bloody fight for survival. Because when night settles in, strange things happen out in the wilds. And what took place on Neville’s Island that foggy November weekend none of this particular middle-management team would ever forget...
Tickets on sale to subscribers January 10th, open sale January 17th. Tickets cost £7.50. Booking line 01457 874644, or e-mail bookings@saddleworthplayers.org.uk
March 24th–31st, 2012
Doors open 7pm,
show commences 7.30pm
(no Monday performance)
Greg and Kate are city-dwellers who are adjusting to life after children. Kate’s career as an academic is taking off, while Greg is being transferred to ever more meaningless and unsatisfying work. In a walk in the park, Greg finds an adorable poodle mix with a tag indicating her name is Sylvia. Perhaps she finds him. He brings her home, fleas and all. Sylvia immediately establishes herself as Greg’s constant companion. She does what pets do: she’s loves him unconditionally, for a dog. She’s frisky and playful, tireless, loves to be petted and scratched, and hangs on his every word. Soon Greg is avoiding work so he can bask in her delightful company. Kate recognizes a rival for Greg’s affections and a threat to her marriage, and tries to get Greg to give Sylvia up. Soon Greg must choose between wife and dog...
Tickets on sale to subscribers March 6th, open sale March 13th. Tickets cost £7.50. Booking line 01457 874644, or e-mail bookings@saddleworthplayers.org.uk
(Adapted from the novel by Henry Fielding)
May 19th–26th, 2012
Doors open 7pm,
show commences 7.30pm
(Monday performance is a charity performance - tickets only via the charity)
Based on the classic 18th Century novel by Henry Fielding, this is a rollicking, raunchy, comic romp. Tom Jones is a young man of questionable birth adopted by Squire Allworthy. His youthful charm endears him to the ladies, from local girl Molly, to the negotiable affections of Jenny Waters, and the society lady Mrs Fitzpatrick, in need of diversion from her oafish husband. But his true love Sophia Western is being forced into a marriage of convenience to Captain Blifil. Can Tom escape the attentions of his other conquests for long enough to do anything about it? And perhaps more urgently, can he keep out of the clutches of their jealous partners?
Tickets on sale to subscribers May 1st, open sale May 8th. Tickets cost £7.50. Booking line 01457 874644, or e-mail bookings@saddleworthplayers.org.uk
