November 2008 Newsletter

As I write, there are just 90 minutes to go before the first performance of our Double Bill productions, the culmination of a tremendous amount of hard work from all involved, our most ambitious project of recent years. Hope it all goes well… 

Relatively Speaking

My Cousin Rachel

Regards
Rob Snell
Secretary – QUADS
email: info@quarndonquads.co.uk

QUADS Christmas Revue/Social Night, Tuesday 16th Dec, 7.30pm

Debs Simpson and Simon Carr are organizing a Xmas Revue/Social Night for members, friends and family on Tuesday 16^th December, starting at 7.30pm, at Quarndon Village Hall. Details still being finalised but the entertainment is likely to include a themed quiz (nothing to do with cars this time, sorry Simon!) and an American supper. There will be a small charge on the door to cover hall hire costs.
 

“People Like Us” One-Act Play, Hazelwood Memorial Hall

The one-act comedy “People Like Us”, had a highly successful repeat performance as a fundraiser for the Hazelwood Church West End project. The evening was well attended and raised over £160 for the project, thanks to all concerned.

 QUADS Park Farm District Centre Double Bill publicity event

On a very cold November Saturday, Allestree Park Farm shopping centre kindly gave us free use of a vacant unit on the main thoroughfare, to promote the Double Bill productions and QUADS generally. 12 show tickets were sold on the day, and Sheila’s since had a series of phone enquiries, due to leaflets and booking forms handed out. Thanks to those who turned out to help us, despite fairly miserable weather (pictured above, plus Jan, Marilyn and Rob). 

My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Like the earlier Rebecca, it is a mystery-romance, largely set on a large estate in Cornwall.

Phillip Ashley has been brought up by his cousin Ambrose, to whom he is devoted, on Ambrose's Cornish estate. While travelling in Italy for his health, Ambrose meets and falls in love with Rachel, another cousin who was the penniless widow of an Italian count. Ambrose soon dies and Philip inherits the estate.

Rachel returns to England, and Philip is subjected to contradictory forces: he falls in love with her, but at the same time evidence grows that Ambrose died under suspicious circumstances...

The book's title reflects Philip's consistent references to Rachel as "my cousin Rachel" right up to the moment he realises he is in love with her.

A film of My Cousin Rachel, starring Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland was made in 1952, and a television adaptation, starring Christopher Guard and Geraldine Chaplin, in 1983.
 

Relatively Speaking

Relatively Speaking is a 1965 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, originally titled Meet My Father. The London production of Relatively Speaking in 1967 at the Duke of York's Theatre helped to launch Richard Briers' career, and it also featured Michael Hordern and Celia Johnson.

The action of the play takes place during a summer weekend in the bed-sitting room of Ginny’s London flat and on the garden patio of Sheila and Philip’s country home. The time is 1965.

Greg and Ginny are in love and planning to be married. Greg finds a strange pair of slippers under the bed and is too besotted to believe they might have been left by another man. When Ginny goes off for a day the country—supposedly to visit her parents but actually to break things off with her older married lover, Philip—Greg decides to follow her...  The situation is further complicated by a series of hilarious misunderstandings until no-one (including the audience) can be exactly sure who’s in love with whom.
 

Hope to see you there! 

Rob Snell

Secretary - QUADS

01332 840007

info@quarndonquads.co.uk

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