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Tuesday 1 to Saturday 5 April at 7.30pm
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Pioneering Birthday Celebrations for the Lichfield Players at the Garrick
Since the Lichfield Garrick opened in July 2003, The Lichfield Players took up the daunting challenge of staging five productions every season in the newly-opened theatre. Part of their challenge was to increase their audiences to match the demands and standards of a professional theatre venue – a challenge they are proud to have met.
Now in their 65th anniversary year, the Players are celebrating by linking up with the professional Lichfield Garrick Rep Company to stage a unique ‘Pro-Am’ production of Cold Comfort Farm.
On stage audiences will not only recognize the familiar faces from the Players, but also those of professional actors from the Garrick Rep Company. The production will be directed by acclaimed Director, Kim Gillespie, whose previous credits at the Garrick have included; Central Line’s; Hedda Gabler, Much Ado About Nothing, Tartuffe and Beaux Stratagem. The partnership between professional and amateur companies is also going on behind the scenes where costume, stage management and set design are being shared.
Sarah Stanley, Chairman of the Players, and Adrian Jackson, Artistic and Executive Director of The Lichfield Garrick, commented: ”We are delighted with the progress so far and this production is set to be a great triumph for both organisations. We have been planning this collaboration for the past 18 months and it’s fantastic to see it all coming together, The chosen play - Cold Comfort Farm - is ideal in that it offers opportunities for a large cast, fine drama, comedy and choreography”.
Cold Comfort Farm
By Paul Doust
Based on the novel by Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm introduces audiences to a range of intriguing characters. You will meet sophisticate Flora Poste, Aunt Ada Doom, and quirky country cousins in the uplifting comedy about high and low society, love and Hollywood dreams, and something nasty in the woodshed.
The drama follows glamorous Flora, who has moved from London to Cold Comfort Farm, as she attempts to bring order to the chaos of her eccentric entourage of oddball relatives. The dilapidated farm's inhabitants display all manner of long festering emotional problems as level headed Flora re-adjusts her extended family.
In this hysterical parody of the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden, accounts of rural life popular in the 1930s, the action moves between the kitchen, the cowshed, a religious meeting place and a grand ballroom - but never to that woodshed.
For more information, please contact Esther Epstein, Communications Officer, 01543 308778 or email esther.epstein@lichfielddc.gov.uk