Elephant Man 2020
Far From The Madding Crowd
Oh What A Lovely War
Little Voice
Jerusalem
The Turn Of The Screw
Fantastic Mister Fox
The Corn Is Green
Cinderella
Death & The Maiden
Dinner
The Matchmaker
See How They Run
Gosforth's Fête
Blue Remembered Hills
Pinocchio
Under Milk Wood
Lettice And Lovage
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Just For Laughs
Goodnight Mister Tom
Be My Baby
Visiting Mister Green
Alice In Wonderland
Animal Farm
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Blithe Spirit
Blue Stockings
The Naked Truth
The House They Grew Up In
The Sleeping Beauty
The Thrill of Love
The Government Inspector
Private Lives
The Man Who Came To Dinner
Hedda Gabler
SOUTHWICK
PLAYERS
COMMUNITY THEATRE SINCE 1935
6-9 December 2023
Directed by Ron Common
Two of the most famous lines in English literature bookend Dickens’ epic and magnificent novel A Tale of Two Cities.
It begins “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” and is a tale of love – requited and unrequited, of loyalty, of spies and treachery, of fear and courage, all set against the harsh background of the French Revolution.
This wonderful stage adaptation of Dickens’ sweeping story is told by the proprietors and customers of a coaching inn – they transform the coach yard into the Bastille prison, the London home of Dr Manette, the road to Dover and the Defarge wine shop in Paris.
In the shadow of Madame Guillotine, Lucie and her father fight to save the life of her husband, Charles Darnay, incarcerated as an enemy of the state. Meanwhile, Madame Defarge knits the names of all transgressors into a long, long scarf that she will use to bring them to their dreadful end.
Sidney Carton, a clever and professionally successful, but dissolute fellow, has always loved Lucie so much that he is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice, giving us the extraordinary final line: “It is a far, far better thing that I do. It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
2024 season - subject to licence availability
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