{"id":401,"date":"2016-04-18T16:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/expertstatus.org\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2016-04-18T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:55:21","slug":"tomb-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/tomb-for-a-change","title":{"rendered":"Tomb for a Change…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Still comedy, still fun, rather gothic and a lot more lines to learn.\u00a0 We have undertaken a full length play for the first time in four years.\u00a0 We are having great fun in rehearsals deciding how to let the bodies fall so to speak but to be honest it’s a bit scary after several years of offering an altogether different format with 2 short dramatic pieces.\u00a0 We will all do our very best to rise to the occasion of course!<\/p>\n

This production has not been easy to date.\u00a0 We were incredibly well organised not to say unusually prompt in choosing this play – chosen before the Christmas break!\u00a0 Absolutely unheard of for us to choose so quickly – normally there are weeks of reading and rejecting before a decision.<\/p>\n

Of course it was not to be the smooth path… more like a constant battle to avoid falling trees and avalanches… First we found that our chosen week for performance clashed exactly with West Huntspill Players who are our friends and a great local drama group.\u00a0 The clash had to be avoided so we went cap in hand to the kind people at Berrow Village hall who (luckilly for us) had a week in early June where we could just about squeeze in…\u00a0 Next several of our stalwart members became ill \/ injured so the usual difficult process of casting became an absolute nightmare… Never mind another hurdle was jumped and we were cast and on our way.\u00a0 But NO!\u00a0 One of the cast suddenly decided that it was all too much and dropped out – and not just a small part but one of the lead roles.\u00a0 Aaaaarrrrgg!\u00a0 Some of us were beginning to think this play might not be toast… but with a little ingenuity and juggling we are up and running again and going for it!<\/p>\n

Please do come and see us if you can we are on at Berrow Village Hall on June 9th, 10th and 11th 2016.\u00a0 Doors open 7pm and performance from 7.30.\u00a0 Here’s a short description of what you are in for:<\/p>\n

“A Tomb With a View”, centres on the aptly named Tomb family who are impatiently awaiting the reading of their late father\u2019s will.<\/p>\n

The play is set in a sinister old library\u00a0 presided over by a portrait of a grim faced, mad eyed old man. There, a crusty lawyer reads a will (involving millions) to an equally creepy family. One has werewolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga like Julius Caesar and a third is a mild mannered old lady who plants more than seeds in her flower beds.<\/p>\n

The terrible Tombs are desperate to hear who will inherit Septimus Tomb’s millions but the arrival of unknown authoress Ermyntrude Ash and her male secretary throws them into a state of panic when they realise she is the main beneficiary.<\/p>\n

Not so much a case of ‘who done it?’ but ‘who keeps doing it’ – it isn\u2019t long before the body count rises…<\/p>\n

With a series of twists and turns and more convolutions than a rattle snake, by the third act, there are more corpses than live members left in the cast.\u00a0 Will anyone survive? and just who is behind all the murders and mayhem?<\/p>\n

Advance tickets, priced \u00a37, are available from Grahame on 01278 782319 or Ken on 01278 795619.<\/p>\n

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Still comedy, still fun, rather gothic and a lot more lines to learn.\u00a0 We have undertaken a full length play for the first time in four years.\u00a0 We are having great fun in rehearsals deciding how to let the bodies fall so to speak but to be honest it’s a bit scary after several years … Continue reading “Tomb for a Change….”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}