A Celebration of Shakespeare
Friday 15th July 2016 at 8.00pm
A lighthearted evening of readings, songs and music
directed by Kate Britten and Jill Webster.
Programme
The Seven Ages of Man (As You Like It)
Wyn Melville-Jones
Songs - O mistress mine; The willow song
Mary Symons, Danny Kingshill
Giving notes (Victoria Wood)
Jill Webster
Hamlet encounters a gravedigger (Hamlet)
Norman Gayler, John Holland
Hamlet Part II (Perry Pontac)
Kate Britten, Sharon Longworth, Patsy Groom, Mary Symons, Sheila Webb
Sonnet 110 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Liz Nash
Prospero 'Ye elves' (The Tempest)
Ken Fowler
Mistress Page and Ford discuss Falstaff's letter (Merry Wives of Windsor)
Sue Rivett, Sheila Webb
Portia 'The quality of mercy' (The Merchant of Venice)
Patsy Groom
A Shakespeare Masterclass - An Actor Prepares (Fry and Laurie)
David Melville-Jones, Elie Williams
Sonnet 29 - When in disgrace with Fortune
Mary Symons
Maria - West Side Story (Carl Bernstein)
Jim Philbrick
INTERVAL
'Now is the winter of our discontent' (Richard III)
Jim Philbrick
'A hard day's night' (Peter Sellars)
Ken Fowler
'If music be the food of love' (Twelfth Night)
Jill Webster
Olivia and Viola (Twelfth Night)
Elie Williams, Sharon Longworth
Sonnet 130 - My mistress' face is nothing like the sun
James Wallace
Something's Coming - West Side Story (Carl Bernstein)
Dave Jones
Which Witch (Alan Melville, Charles Zwar and Jeremy Browne)
Liz Nash
Songs - Dunsinane Blues, Under the Greenwood Tree
Clare
Petruchio and Katherina's first quarrel (The Taming of the Shrew)
John Holland, Sue Rivett
Sonnet 8 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
Elie Williams
Pyramus and Thisbe(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Jim Philbrick, Norman Gaylor, David Melville-Jones, James Wallace, Wyn Melville-Jones, Dave Jones
Puck - 'If we shadows have offended' (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Liz Nash
Brush Up Your Shakespeare (Cole Porter)
Jim Philbrick, Dave Jones, and Cast