| Status: | Active, not currently accepting new members |
| Coordinator: | |
| When: | Monthly on Monday afternoons 13:45 3rd Monday of the month |
| Venue: | (contact coordinator) |
| Cost: | Attendees share the costs, such as script hire and refreshments. |
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Unleash your inner thespian and join our friendly group, to read aloud everything from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night & Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard to Joe Orton’s Loot and Peter Schaffer’s Amadeus.
A different member of our small group gets to choose the script and 'direct' for each session, providing a background to the play and assigning the roles. We break for tea and a discussion of the play, which continues at the close of the reading, if time allows. The emphasis is on exploring a range of plays and developing our individual ‘voices’.
We have organised a number of theatre visits, in association with the plays we read – recently, for example: Playboy Of The Western World at the Loft Theatre in Leamington. The group occasionally provides entertainment at the monthly ssu3a meeting – for instance, a snippet of a Noel Coward play for a 1930’s themed meeting and a mini pantomime at Christmas.
Come along to a meeting and give us a try; we’d love to welcome you. If you are interested, please contact the coordinator.
Forthcoming Plays
Past Plays
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A special event for our play reading group recently took place, featuring an unforgettable day centred around this play.
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The second of J.B. Priestley’s Time Plays
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Set in the 60’s at a school where English is taught as a foreign language. The play follows the relationships between seven teachers, in particular that between Quartermaine and his colleagues. The dominant theme is loneliness and during the course of the play, all the characters experience the pain of being or feeling alone.
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Charles Norbury is a successful writer of children's books, but he doesn't like children. An unlovable man, he has no friends, is arrogant, controlling, sadistic and cruel. His wife, starved of love and denied children of her own, has met another man. In their cottage in Surrey, a tape recorder has been left on during…
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A group of Southern ladies in a USA small-town beauty parlour engage in gossip that is hilarious, touching and revealing.
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Adapted from the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes’ most spine-chilling mystery is placed in a modern setting in this version – with suspense, humour, and terror in equal measures. It’s all a bit tongue in cheek, the plot has more holes that a roll of polos and we have no chance of…