High Drama at Hanger Farm

The National All England One Act Play Festival’s local ‘Stage One’—Totton Festival of Drama—is back at Hanger Farm Arts Centre with a really vibrant and varied programme of plays throughout the week from Monday to Saturday March 13th–18th. Curtain up each evening at 7.00pm.

With authors such as Alan Ayckbourn John Godber, George Orwell and Shelagh Stephenson on offer audiences are in for a real treat. . This year’s selection of plays includes classic, comedy, physical, drama, farce and new writing. There really is something for everyone!

With three such varied one act plays performed per evening the festival offers the public a great opportunity to see an extreme variety of theatre in a superb venue, plus you have the bonus of hearing GODA professional adjudicator Jeannie Russell’s public adjudications.

14 groups from across Hampshire will be performing their festival entries in the hope of achieving a place in the Southern Divisional Final. Local audiences can follow the festival through to the next round as Hanger Farm Arts Centre will be the venue the Divisional final on Saturday April 22nd.

Tickets are just £6.00 per evening (£4.00 concessions) and with ample free parking on site—it is a superb chance to see quality theatre at an affordable price in Totton’s first-rate community arts centre. Ring the box-office tel. 023 8066 7683 for tickets, but hurry seating capacity is only 120! Weekly tickets are also available.



For your information Groups & Running order—correct at time of going to press.

Monday 13th March '

Bench Theatre Company 'Unworkable' by Mark Wakeman

Chameleon Theatre Company 'Teechers' by John Godber

Bursledon Players 'Between Mouthfuls' by Alan Ayckbourn

Tuesday 14th March

Hardley School 'Excerpts of Dr Faustus' by Christopher Marlowe

C.A.T.S. Youth Theatre 'The Shoemaker's Incredible Wife' by Federico Garcia Lorca translated by Lucinda Coxon

Wednesday 15th March

Oaklands Youth Music Theatre 'Sequinned Suits and Platform Boots' by Mark Wheeller

Stage Frite Theatre Company 'The Interview' by Les Clarke

Oaklands Community School 'Bang out of Order' by Johnny Carrington and Danny Sturrock

Thursday 16th March

Totton College '30th February' devised the cast

Wessex Youth Theatre 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell adapted by Ian Wooldridge

Chameleon Theatre Company 'A Galway Girl' by Geraldine Aron

Friday 17th March

Bursledon Players 'Gosforth's Fete' by Alan Ayckbourn

Portchester Players '5 Kinds of Silence' by Shelagh Stephenson

Bench Theatre Company 'Customer Delight' by Nathan Chapman



Saturday 18th March—Two plays recalled (Adjudicators choice) and Presentation of Awards



Contact Chris Farleigh for further information on 023 8086 2882 or email christine.farleigh@ntlworld.com