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Antony & Cleopatra The Globe Theatre London

Thursday June 5^th 18 members enjoyed a memorable performance on a beautiful summers day.

.Plaza Theatre, Romsey The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan

Thursday 17^th July 7.30pm Tickets £11

The play looks at both the terrifying experiences of the men at the front in the first world war and the women who were left behind to face social changes, deprivation and the lies of propaganda. While often comic vignettes portray the everyday life of a town denuded of men, the men face the terror that is the Battle of the Somme. This compassionate play portrays the devastating effects of war on a typical Lancashire mill town and the suffering of everyday people

The Vernon Theatre BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, a comedy by NEIL SIMON.Lyndhurst Drama & Music Society

Thursday/Friday/Saturday 24/25/26 July at 7.45 pm. Tickets £7 Thurs £8 other nights

Paul and Corrie Bratter, a newly married couple, move into an old 'Brownstone Walkup' on E 47thWintertime. The joy and excitement of being newly wed soon gives way to everyday reality as the initial trials and tribulations of adjusting to their impossibly small apartment begin to become obvious. He is a lawyer, stiff and serious, while she is vivacious, fun-loving and passionate. Corrie's mother (Mrs. Banks) is willing to do anything for her daughter, even endure a strange evening out around NYC with the wildly eccentric and whacko Victor Velasco who lives upstairs in the attic, making his nightly journey via the Bratter's bedroom window to his abode in the roof!

FRANKIE & JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE Mineva Theatre Chichester

Monday 10^th November 7.45pm Tickets £18.00

'We have a chance to make everything turn out all right again. Turn our back on everything that went wrong. We can begin right now and all over again but only if we begin right now, this minute, this room and us. I know this thing, Frankie.’

In a New York apartment a couple are struggling to start a new day. Wise-cracking chef Johnny has spent the night with his colleague, the rueful waitress Frankie, and now he won’t go home. He wants to persuade her they might have something rare and special. That a one-night stand could really be the start of a lifetime of love. That a brief meeting of  bodies could lead to a lifelong meeting of minds.

But she’s not biting, and he hasn’t got long to convince her; outside the apartment the sun’s coming up. This tender, funny and passionate play about two lonely people getting together and opening up has been a hit on stages around the world. This play contains adult themes.

An Ideal Husband Chichester Festival Theatre

Thursday 27^th November 7. pm Tickets £20.00

'Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.’

In decorous London society, where most women have their eyes set on snaring the perfect  husband, Mrs Laura Cheveley is set on securing a lucrative Argentinian investment. All she needs to ensure the success of her scheme are corruptible connections in high places. Luckily, upright government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, has a dark secret, and Mrs Cheveley knows exactly what it is. Now she just has to slice right through Sir Robert’s outwardly respectable world, bending his earlier shame to her advantage. But there is one last hope for Sir Robert: Mrs  Cheveley has a dark secret too, and Sir Robert’s adoring wife, Lady Chiltern, who was at school with her, knows exactly what it is.

Set in London in 1895, An Ideal Husband is  considered to be Oscar Wilde’s dramatic masterpiece. Patricia Routledge returns to Chichester to play Lady Markby.

Royal Albert Hall John Rutter Christmas Concert

Thursday 11^th December 3pm Tickets & Travel £34