Does a play need to reach a conclusion or even express a point of view?
These thought came to me while I was watching the highly entertaining ‘The History Boys’ presented at the Nomad Theatre at the beginning of the month. This play can be interpreted at many levels and Alan Bennett’s brilliant and acclaimed script [...]
THE LIKES OF US
Stephen Whittock thinks back about the highs and lows of staging a book musical without a book.
A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME
The Likes of Us is the first musical written by the winning team of Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice. It is a strange cocktail of the [...]
Our meeting in September will be on Wednesday, 16th September 2009. All those who attended our June meeting are on the list so if you are unable to come, please let Mary know. Also, those not at our last meeting, and who wish to attend, please contact Mary Brooks.
Oklahoma at Chichester Theatre
The Chichester Theatre visit [...]
By Robert Bolt
By arrangement with Samuel French Ltd
Friday 2nd October
Wednesday 7th to Saturday 10th October
at 8pm
Tickets: £11
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Following a slow, sinuous and very effective mime, brilliantly mirrored by a video background of the same scene, we were plunged into the sawdust and smells of the circus, ring master, strongman, tightrope walker, lion tamer, trick ponies…everything one associates with the excitement of the big top, albeit in a failed project, with the recalcitrant [...]
Arts Alive started way back in 1996 and has grown into the largest community arts festival in Mole Valley. Arts Alive began as a two-week literature festival taking place during the last two weeks of October and has continued every year since. The event kicks off on 26th September with street festivals in Dorking and [...]
“You can’t be satirical and not be offensive to someone.”
Directed by Alan Wiseman
Wednesday 19th - Saturday 22nd August
in the Studio Theatre
Tickets: £10
BREAKING THE CODE by HUGH WHITEMORE at the Nomad Theatre
Alan Turing has only recently been commemorated in Guildford. His statue was placed on the University plaza in 2004 and a road in the business Park has been named after him. Yet although he lived in Guildford for some time, according to the Tourist Office, there [...]
It is hard to believe My Fair Lady was first performed in 1956, the film was made in 1964! Anyone who loves musicals will have seen one or the other perhaps both. So why come to the Nomad Theatre from 22nd to 25th April at 7.30 pm and see it again – because it is [...]
GOGOL’S The Government Inspector. March 13th 2009
Traditionally, Friday 13th is considered unlucky. For those of us seated in The Nomad Theatre on that evening the absolute reverse was true. We were exposed to the most brilliantly funny and skilfully executed performance of this rarely performed play.
The opening moments revealed a beautiful Palladian style [...]
