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Description of Theatre and Memberships
Ticket Office - Jarrold Department Store, Customer Services (01603 697248)
on the Second floor. Sun 10:30 until 4:30pm
Price: £8 includes programme - * concessions £6 (with proof:) retired,
students and the unwaged.
Foyer opens at 6:45pm. Auditorium opens at 7:15pm
Full facilities for wheelchairs are available, as all is
at ground level. Please inform at the time of booking if you have any special
needs.
Artistic Director: Clare Howard - 07981 449522. artisticdirector@sewellbarn.org.
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Thurs 23rd, Fri 24th, Sat 25th, Wed 29th, Mar 1st, 2nd and 3rd at 7:30pm
Matinee: Sat 3rd March at 2:30pm
Tickets: £8 / £6*.
by DH Lawrence, adapted and directed by Roger Parsley
This stage adaptation of DH Lawrence's powerful semi-autobiographical novel tells the emotionally charged story of an artistic young man, Paul Morel, and his relationship with his father, his controlling mother, Gertrude (who dreams of a golden future for Paul which she will share) and two very different women who enter his life. Can his mother let him go? Can his father finally "understand" him? An intriguing and moving piece of theatre.
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Thurs 5th, Fri 6th, Sat 7th, Wed 11th, Thurs 12th, Fri 13th and Sat 14th at
7:30pm
Matinee: Sat 14th April at 2:30pm
Tickets: £8 / £6*.
by Tom Bidwell, directed by Jon Hyde & Jonty Rea
A dark comedy about love. Bidwell's play occupies the same
landscape of yearning and redemption found in the plays of Williams, Pinter and
Orton.
Stella, a transvestite and lifestyle fantasist who insists on having sandwiches
cut into triangles, plays the other main character, George, for his company each
Wednesday in a Blackpool hotel room. Then they find a dead bellboy in their en
suite...
Tom Bidwell's film Wish 143 was nominated for a 2011 Academy
Award for best live action short film.
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Thurs 10th, Fri 11th Sat 12th, Wed 16th, Thurs 17th, Fri 18th and Sat 19th at
7:30pm
Matinee: Sat 19th May at 2:30pm
Tickets: £8 / £6*.
by Neil Simon, directed by Jenny Hobson
This semi-autobiographical drama, set in post
depression New York, demonstrates Neil Simon's ability to combine sophisticated
and witty comedy with underlying seriousness.
The central character, young Eugene Jerome, engages the
audience in his story as he writes his journal charting the sometimes
frustrating, and sometimes funny situations in which he finds himself as he
moves through adolescence to adulthood.
Brighton Beach Memoirs has been seen on stages worldwide, and
we are confident that Sewell Barn audiences will be delighted by this award
winning play.
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Thurs 14th, Fri 15th, Sat 16th, Wed
20th, Thurs 21st, Fri 22nd and Sat 23rd June at 7:30pm
Matinee: Sat 23rd June at 2:30pm
Tickets: £8 / £6*.
by George Bernard Shaw, directed by David Hare
One of Bernard
Shaw's "Plays Pleasant", this is the story of a smart and witty middle class
family at the turn of the 20th century, on holiday on the south coast of
England. Two young people brighten the dialogue with their youthful enthusiasms
and their elder sister has fallen for her dentist. Their lives are ordered by
their imperious mother. Parentage is puzzling until later in the action when
family problems are eventually sorted out by a trusted, if idiosyncratic,
solicitor.
Seldom performed today, this is a golden opportunity to see a
gem, which will send you home with a spring in your step and warmth in your
heart.
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Thurs 19th, Fri 20th, Sat 21st, Wed
25th, Thurs 26th, Fri 27th and Sat 28th July at 7:30pm
Matinee: Sat 28th July at 2:30pm
Tickets: £8 / £6*.
by William Shakespeare, directed by Carole Lovett
Two sets of
identical twins do not know of each other's existence, and farcical confusion
occurs when all the twins converge in Ephesus. The audience can sit back and
thoroughly enjoy the joke as the mayhem becomes ever more ridiculous. Needless
to say, by the final curtain, all the muddles have been sorted out and everyone
does indeed live 'happily ever after'.
This play, one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, is full of
delightful puns and slapstick.
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Housed in a converted Barn (('reputedly the stable of the original Black Beauty'), the Sewell Barn Theatre offers a different kind of theatrical experience to its patrons. Seating only 110, the auditorium features raked seating around three sides of an open acting space. This unusual staging helps to draw the audience deeply into the performance, whether domestic or epic in scale. Founded in 1980, the resident Company has a reputation for quality, and challenging theatre, attracting audiences from across Norfolk - and beyond! The cosy bar offers patrons hot and cold drinks, and snacks. All staff and actors give their time to the theatre voluntarily, and the highest standards are maintained.
A series of free, mixed ability, acting workshops for adults will be held at the Theatre at 7:30pm on Wed evenings 27th Oct and 8th Dec (2010), and 26th Jan, 2nd Mar, 6th Apr, 11th May, 22nd June and 27th July 2011.
Membership of the Sewell Barn Company is £10 / yr or £15 families or £50 for life. This entitles you to have a free drink on Wednesday nights, to receive a regular newsletter containing details of forthcoming productions, activities and casting opportunities and to vote at the AGM. The Company is always eager to welcome new members who wish to take part in any capacity (training provided): acting, stage management, lighting, sound, wardrobe, props, set design and construction, or front of house.
Costumes from our extensive collection, including items from the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, ranging from the Elizabethan, Jacobean, Victorian eras and through to the twentieth century, are available for hire to theatre and similar groups. For further details contact the Costume Hire Co-ordinator on 01603 612087
At each performance there are one or two spaces available for wheelchair users, and foyer and toilet facilities are fully accessible. Please inform the Ticket Office at the time of booking if you will be attending the theatre in a wheelchair or if you have any other special needs.