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Dateline:
23rd September, 2004
The Actors Company at Jermyn Street
The Actor’s Company, a repertory company of forty-two actors,
will present three new productions in their annual season at Jermyn
Street Theatre. The plays will be set in the 1940s and examine the effects
of war on society.
The Trojan Women by Euripides (Translated by Neil Curry)
Directed by Diana Hillier
Music Composed by Edmund Jolliff
Preview Monday 27th Sept. Opening night: Wednesday 29th Sept at 7.30pm
Set in a refugee camp in with a cast of fourteen, this intimate production
examines the personal effects of war on a small group of women. Edmund
Joliff’s original score will reflect the mood of the time with
a Mediterranean tone. Diana Hillier’s recent directing credits
include The Diary of Anne Frank at the Palace Theatre, Watford
and Travel Club and Boy Soldier by Wole Soyinka at RNT
Studio.
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Directed by Laura Baggaley
Preview Thursday 30th Sept. Opening night: Friday 1st Oct at 7.30pm
A group of RAF officers return from their latest victory in World
War II to celebrate in the garden of an English country house. Here
The Watch becomes the Home Guard, and will be played entirely by women.
Laura Baggaley recently directed Wind in the Willows, The
Baby Sitter by René de Obaldia and Peter Barnes’s
Leonardo’s Last Supper at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s
Park.
Privates on Parade by Peter Nichols with music by Denis
King
Directed by David Harris
Musical Director Paul Harvard
Choreographer Heather Douglas
Previews from Monday 4th October. Opening night: Wednesday 6th Oct
at 7.30pm
A great production of a modern classic. For last year’s LCTS
season David directed a highly successful production of Terence Rattigan’s
Flare Path. MD Paul Harvard’s recent credits include The
History Boys at RNT. Heather Douglas’s recent West End credits
include Jus’ Like That and The Beautiful and the Damned.
Production Dates
Trojan Women
Evenings: 27th - 29th Sept, 7th - 9th Oct, 18th - 20th Oct, 28th - 30th
Oct 7.30pm.
Mats: 9th, 10th, 30th Oct 3.00pm.
Much Ado
Evenings: 30th - 2nd Oct, 11th - 13th Oct, 21st - 23rd Oct, 1st - 3rd
Nov 7.30pm.
Mats: 23rd, 24th, 31st Oct 3.00pm.
Privates
Evenings: 4th - 6th Oct, 14th - 16th Oct, 25th - 27th Oct, 4th - 6th
Nov at 7.30pm.
Mats: 16th - 17th Oct , 6th Nov 3.00pm
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