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October 2008 Newsletter |
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“People Like Us” Social Evening, Saturday 25th October, 7.30pm, Memorial Hall, next to St John's Church, Hazelwood The one-act comedy “People Like Us”, which was performed very successfully as a QUADS Social Evening is being replayed as a fundraiser for the Hazelwood Church West End project. This evening is a public performance, open to anyone, but with a special invitation to QUADS members, family and friends. Please bring your own drink, plus food to share for an American supper. Entry is £5 per person, including a glass of wine. You can buy tickets beforehand (contact Sheila, 01332 553982 or email wooboo31@aol.com) or pay on the door. The last performance was great fun, so please come along if you can.
Ticket now on sale for the QUADS Double Bill:
An exciting departure from the normal autumn show this year - two different productions on alternating nights, Wednesday to Saturday, over a two-week period. Two different casts, a drama and a comedy… and both plays performed in the round.
Performance dates
are:
Relatively Speaking: Thurs 20th, Sat 22nd,
Weds 26th and Fri 28th Nov
Tickets are £6, or a special double ticket is available to see both shows on the nights of your choice for just £10. To purchase tickets, use the booking form or contact Sheila on 01332 553982 or wooboo31@aol.com
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My Cousin Rachel
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. |
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Relatively Speaking
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. |
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Hope to see you there! Rob Snell Secretary - QUADS 01332 840007
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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. 