The Goat (or Who Is Sylvia?) by Edward Albee

Directed by Adam Church

7-11 July 2020 @ 7:30

 

“Every civilisation sets limits to its tolerances. It is my hope that people will think afresh about whether the values they hold are valid.” 

Edward Albee

 

In Edward Albee’s most daring and provocative play since Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Martin, a hugely successful architect, leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife Stevie and gay teenage son Billy. But when he confides to his best friend Ross that he is also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters.

 

The Goat is a hugely enjoyable, darkly hilarious parable that plumbs the deepest questions of social constraints on the individual expression of love.

 

‘As startling as it is satisfying… The dialogue is fierce, often brutal, and laced with the blackest of humour.’ Associated Press

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre adapted by Polly Teale

Directed by Simon Shorrock

14-17 & 21-24 October 2020 @ 7:30

 

A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage.

​

As a child, the orphaned Jane Eyre is taught by a succession of severe guardians to stifle her natural exuberance. A part of herself is locked away, out of view of polite society... until she arrives at Rochester’s house as a governess to his young child. Soon Rochester’s passionate nature reawakens Jane’s hidden self, but darker secrets are stirring in the attic...

​

Polly Teale's adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was first performed by Shared Experience Theatre Company in 1997

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

Directed by Jacqs Graham

2-5 & 9-12 December 2020 @ 7:30

​

After both being separated from their twins in a shipwreck, Antipholus and his slave Dromio go to Ephesus to find them. The other set of twins lives in Ephesus, and the new arrivals cause a series of incidents of mistaken identity. At the end, the twins find each other and their parents and resolve all of the problems caused earlier.