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Spring 2008
The Curse of Elverado
Winter/Spring 2008-9
 The King of Spain’s Daughter
December 2008  
 An Old Spot Christmas Carol

October 2009
Chancers
Summer 2010
 King of Spain’s Daughter Re-tour
All shows are suitable for family and mixed age range audiences from 5 upwards
All shows will be suitable for any combination of the above (primary, tweenies, teenagers, grown-ups, the W.I., farmers, artistic elite etc.)
All shows will contain mirth,

CHANCERS,

being the

The Life and Troubles of Carrie Lyndon,

a tale of Gloucester Gothick

Or

One man is as good as another

 

A New Hope is born and the C18th is happily exploding, sometimes very messily, with Cake, Coffee and Commerce. London smugly calls itself the centre of the artistic world and its rising star, Woman playwright, Carrie Lyndon, accepts a commission to write a play for regional theatre, but is it really her who arrives in Gloucester to fulfil the commission ? The powers of government are now reaching far into the countryside and pretty soon it begins to bite back: Riots, sit-ins and boycotts abound, and starvation and persecution soon follow. The country is in uproar, the Militia are called in and the role of the Theatre and of the Women within are called into question. Does anyone really care if the show goes on or not, and if so why ?

 

IN DEVELOPMENT....
 We give out questionnaires after each show and even read what’s on them,
 especially suggestions for new shows and subject matter: what seems to unite
a lot of our audience are general environmental issues, as well as what is
 happening to farming and the countryside in general. Our skills, as a
 company are comic acting, twisted stories and music. We have therefore
 set ourselves the task, before the world ends, to produce a “state of
The countryside” comic musical, that is both rib-tickling and relevant. Floods,
 Incomers, Post Offices, Cost of Diesel, Farmers, Livestock and Livestock
 related diseases, The Weather, Communities and whatever else strikes as
being important and of the heart. However as this has the potential to mean
 quite a lot to quite a lot of people, we are taking our time to put it together
 and taking it seriously.
 Your suggestions are all still welcome......

The King of  Spain’s Daughter

(Part the Fourth of The Gloucester Trilogy)

 

All the ingredients for a happy end are here: a loving couple, a thatched cottage in the country and a new-born baby. Bad news from abroad catches our couple unaware, and the twosome are soon separated: Florence to London to cope with the damp blankets and sleepless nights of international diplomacy, and Jack to the ancestral home to cope with the back-stabbing merciless cut and thrust of first-time parenthood. An invasion is imminent, spies are abroad, relatives get in the way and a marriage badly needs saving: what comes first, family or country?

 

A unique and stirring tale told in Old Spot’s inimical style: music, masks, high drama and low farce, with jokes for the kids the adults won’t get and jokes for the adults the kids won’t get.

 

Pigs do not fly in this show, but they certainly sing !