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Great Hall Players
        Great Hall Theatre Company. Website:
 www.greathalltheatre.org

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

Programme forward to: June

March

Tuesday 30th March to Saturday 3rd April at 7:30pm
Tickets: £8, children 16 and under £5

"starved to death at pontefract castle - or what?"

Richard of Bordeaux

by Gordon Daviot, directed by John Bury

Vintage Bordeaux (1933) "Richard of Bordeaux, was the success of the season. From my window I can look down at St Martin's Lane and see the queues coil like serpents around the theatre," observed John Gielgud, made an overnight star in Gordon Daviot's urbane, romantic and often witty retread of Shakespeare.
    Born to Edward, the Black Prince and Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent and at age ten acceding to the throne, Richard II is first shown as an 18 year old in a country at arms, to his eventual demise, a lonely incarcerated and deposed monarch of only 33 years. Richard is a combination of vacillation, nobility, suppressed homosexuality and embittered disillusion, in the age of poll tax and Wat Tyler.
    An enthralling evening of theatre - don't miss it.

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May

Tuesday 25th to Saturday 29th May at 7:30pm
Tickets: £8, children 16 and under £5

"the marital complications of a returning war hero"

home and Beauty

by W.Somerset Maugham, directed by David Hare

It is 1918 and the War is over. Victoria, "a dear little thing," is happily married to her returning hero. All goes well until the unexpected and unthinkable happens, plunges the couple into confusion and panic, and sends the action heading off in a completely new direction.
    Add a sprinkling of larger-than-life supporting characters: a bossy mother-in-law, a dubious solicitor and a fixer who can do anything one asks of him so long as there is something in it for him!
    Here is a gentle comedy in the Noel Coward mode, written by his talented and prolific contemporary, which is always ready to spring a surprise to sustain the action to the end. An evening to enjoy.

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June

Tuesday 13th to Saturday 17th June at 7:30pm
Matinee: Saturday 17th June at 2:30pm
Tickets: £8, children 16 and under £5

"the classic, immortal love story of searing passion"

wuthering heights

by Emily Bronte, directed by Ayshea Christian

One in spirit and social unequals, Heathcliff and Cathy's love can never be. Their different paths draw them together and apart through-out their lives, finally joined only in death.
    Set in the remoteness of the Yorkshire Moors, this powerful and fast-moving adaptation takes us from Heathcliff and Cathy's first meeting, through their lives and along the paths of their children. Cathy's untimely death changes Heathcliff forever, to the point of him seeking revenge on those he holds responsible. His vengeance spans two generations, with tragic and devastating results.

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Tickets

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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