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Address: The
Assembly House, Theatre Street, Norwich,
Norfolk NR2 1RO
Full facilities for wheelchairs, Induction loop for the hard of hearing.
Box Office: 01603 598688. Booking tickets
David Haig, directed by David Hare
It is 1913, with a World War on the horizon. This powerful
and compelling play takes us behind the scenes at Batemans, the Sussex home of
Rudyard Kipling and his family.
Kipling is desperate to prove his only son, Jack, is fit to
serve his country in war despite his chronic myopia. Strings are pulled and the
scene moves to the Western Front in 1915, where Jack - just 18, and a Second
Lieutenant in the Irish Guards, commands his first raid. The bewildering
aftermath takes us back to Batemans and witnesses the Kipling family coming to
terms with events that ensue. If you enjoyed Journey's End try this one. It is
even better.
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by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Trudy McGilvray
In Improbable Fiction Ayckboun has created a plot as insanely upside down as
Shakespeare's play of reversals and wish fulfilment Twelfth Night (where he
found the title). We begin by eavesdropping on a meeting of the Pendon Writers'
Circle, where six authors are in search of ...anything at all!
All appears hopeless until suddenly fiction springs to life
as fact. Truth may be stranger than fiction but definitely not here where it
starts to unwind.....situation, period place and even planet changing at
breakneck speed. A concoction of spoof sci-fi characters, a policeman that any
crime writer would be proud to disown, a damsel in distress and an alien
abduction erupt. How will the cast possibly manage the lightning changes and
swift character-swaps? Make sure you don't miss it!
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by Willy Russell, directed by Peter James
A writer of Educating Rita and John, Paul, George and Bert takes as his starting
point a path explored frequently in literature - twins separated at birth,
leaving one in his own working-class environment, placing the other in
privileged surroundings.
Without knowing they are brothers, they find each other at
seven years of age. We follow their lives through childhood, into adolescent
romance, later youth and finally adulthood, as they take different paths.
Russell poses the basic question of
whether we are creatures of our heredity, inextricably linked by ties of genes
and blood or perhaps the the product of our social, cultural and economic
environment. This play version, written in 1986 is fast moving, thought
provoking and at times very funny, and with Liverpool at its heart build to its
inevitable and ultimate tragedy.
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Wilkie Collins, adapted by David Morrison, directed by Ayeha Christian
This is not a detective story, but a mystery with a strong element of detection.
We are introduced to the eponymous character in the first scene and subsequently
pulled through the play by the intrigue surrounding this ghostly figure.
Walter, a drawing master, falls in love with his pupil Laura.
Sadly for him she is already betrothed to Sir Percival Glyde, a foreboding
character who is desperately short of money, and also has a dark secret he is at
great pains to conceal! Will he stop at nothing to ensure his secret remains
hidden? How can he get hold of enough money to pay off his huge debts? Can
Walter solve the mystery?
Manipulation, violence and false
alibis all feature in this fast-moving adaptation. What does the woman in white
know about the secret? How should she be silenced?
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by Ray Cooney & John Chapman, directed by John Bury
With a pedigree that includes Dry Rot, There Goes the Bride, Move Over Mrs
Markham, and Chase Me Comrade the Cooney and Chapman partnership just goes on
providing unabashed laughter.
This one became the West End hit of 1968 starring Bernard
Cribbins and Donald Sinden. The fourth floor of West End furriers, Bodley,
Bodley and Crouch becomes the epicentre of hilarious permutations and saucy
entanglements reaching hysteria before everyone gets their just desserts!
A truly uproarious farce about the
consequences of attempted infidelity.
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Booking in Person
You can book at the Theatre Royal Box Office, which is
open from 9:30am until 6pm. Monday to Saturday.
Booking by Phone
Telephone 01603 598688 to book - pay instantly using
your credit card. Your tickets can be posted to you upon payment if you wish.
The Theatre Royal will make a small charge for this service.
Sold and unsold tickets will transfer to The Assembly House on the day of the
performance - to be collected or sold at the door. Please ensure sold tickets
have been collected at least ten minutes before 'curtain up'. We reserve the
right to re-sell unclaimed tickets after this time.
Latecomers
We regret that latecomers can only be seated at a
suitable point in the performance determined by the Front of House staff.
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