September 14th - 19th
2009Outside Edge
by Richard Harris
Assembling the village cricket team is no easy task for the harassed captain. Complications arise on and off the pitch, not only between the players, but also between wives and girlfriends ! (The performance on Monday 14th is a Gala Night for the local branch of the national charity, British Red Cross.)
November 3rd - 7th 2009
Strangers On A Train
by Craig Warner
Two young men meet on a train. As the train rolls along, they speculate on what it would be like to commit the perfect murder. Little do they know that their lives will soon become fatally linked forever. (Adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith)
January 12th - 16th 2010
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
Set in America, about a woman who clings to yesteryear. She lives with her son and her crippled daughter, whose separation from reality increases until she is like one of her glass collection, too fragile to move from the shelf. A very tender play.
March 2nd to 6th 2010
The Penelopiad
by Margaret Atwood
Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of Helen of Troy - is a symbol of wifely duty and devotion. She waits twenty years while he fights the Trojan War and has adventures, slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses.
April 26th - May 1st 2010
Translations
by Brian Friel
In County Donegal, a detachment of the Royal Engineers is sent on behalf of the British Army to make the First Ordnance Survey. A British soldier falls for an Irish peasant girl. His murder causes the British Army to seek revenge. (Gala Night on Monday 26th.)
June 15th to 19th 2010
Farewell, Farewell Eugene
by Rodney Ackland
A comedy set in Edwardian London. Two sisters, daughters of the vicarage, live in genteel poverty, making a meagre living composing uplifting verses for greetings cards, but send most of the proceeds to missionary work in Africa. (Based on a story by John Vari.)
Octagon Films
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