May update

U3A Theatre Group – Leader - Julie Horseman tel:02380 862704

Wednesday 2nd May saw a large group of us seated comfortably at the Mayflower Theatre for ‘Guys and Dolls’ – a real American show with some excellent choreography. . Shaun Williamson made an admirable Nathan Detroit and Miss Adelaide was well played by Lynsey Britton.
Frank Loesser's classic musical hits such as Luck be a Lady, Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat, and of course the wonderful title song Guys and Dolls had us all tapping our feet and reminiscing about that film we saw - how many years ago?.....
Theatre Trips to come

Salisbury Playhouse

Thursday 24th May Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘Absent Friends’.
Ayckbourn is at his best in this poignant tale of love grown cold. Colin's rose-tinted view on the world lays bare his friends' disintegrating marriages, shatters pretences and exposes sad realities.
Tickets £17.00
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Friday 15th June ‘The Boyfriend’ Stage '65 Youth Theatre bring us the tale of Madame Dubonnet's fashionable finishing school on the sun-kissed French Riviera, where the daughters of the English aristocracy are schooled in the fine arts of living and loving.
Tickets £7.00

Tuesday September 25th Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland is hopelessly addicted to Gothic novels that wreak havoc on her imagination. Her quiet, bookish life in rural Hampshire becomes suddenly more exciting when she is taken to enter the leisure society at Bath.
Tickets £17.00

Trip to The Globe Theatre, London

Friday 20th July The Merchant of Venice
Trip to include a guided tour & exhibition of The Globe 12noon , performance 2pm
The coach will be leaving the bus stop by the Civic Centre Car Park at 9.15am
Total cost including travel £35.00
There are spare seats on the coach so anyone wanting a day trip to London can join us for the ride. The cost for travel only is £10.00
Theatre at Hanger Farm

Friday June the 8th Forest Forge Theatre present ‘Maybe Baby’ – Based on real life stories of local people, Maybe Baby tells of the joys and heartache of young love and starting a family in the 1950'sand includes love songs from the fifties. Tickets £6.50 including tea & biscuits from the box-office 023 8066 7683

Totton Festival of Drama Results
Winners Bench Theatre Company Ashputtel and the Lady and the Lion from Grimm Tales adapted by Carol Anne Duffy & dramatised by Tim Suppie
Runners Up Wessex Youth Theatre Warrior Square by Nick Wood
Oaklands 006 Through My Eyes by Stewart Blackmore

At The Southern Divisional Final at Shaftsbury on Saturday 28th of April Wessex Youth Theatre were again runners up and now go forward to the Western Area Final at The Stroud Theatre, Street on May the 19th