WELCOME TO THE OXFORD THEATRE GUILD SPRING 2008 PLAZA SUITE 15th to 19th April 2008 The Oxford Playhouse
Plaza Suite By Neil Simon "A wonderfully happy and gratifying evening of sheer entertainment.... Richly funny." N.Y. Post. Sparkling dialogue runs through this award winning portrait of 3 couples occupying a suite at the Plaza Hotel. In winter a couple take the suite because Karen wants to rescue her marriage to high-flying business man Sam by spending their wedding anniversary in their honeymoon hotel of 23 years before "You know how many people we know who are still married as long as us? …. The Shelley’s …..The most boring people I ever met." This wry tale of marriage in tatters is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for a little diversion in spring time New York. He invites his childhood sweetheart from the suburbs to his hotel room, forgetting that in 17 years she has moved on too and has a surprise for him. A smart June wedding sets the scene for the final act, maybe best remembered from the film staring Walter Matthau. The mother and father of the bride, desperate to save face and the wedding bill spend a frantic half hour trying to tempt, cajole, and physically prize their daughter out of a locked hotel bathroom to the ballroom where guests await her "You don’t need me. You need a rhinoceros with a blow torch – because no one else can get in that bathroom." Neil Simon is one of the America’s most successful playwrights and has been showered with more Academy and Tony nominations than any other US writer. For almost forty years Simon has invigorated the stage with touching stories and zany characters, but possibly his greatest contribution has been the ability to create humour from the lives and troubles of everyday people. Oxford Theatre Guild is the leading amateur theatre group in the city and this play is our latest in a long line of successful productions in the Oxford Playhouse. Actors from our well received The Browning Version (OP April 2007) return to the Oxford Playhouse stage, and new members of our company join them. "This excellent Oxford Theatre Guild production" Oxford Times April 2007 Tues to Thurs, and Sat eves 7.30pm Fri eve 8pm Sat matinee only 2.30pm Tickets £9, £11.50, £14.50
01865 305305 50% of first night to StageCard Concessions and access – please contact the Box Office * * * * * SUMMER PRODUCTION AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare at Trinity College Gardens, off Parks Road, Oxford Tuesday 15th to Saturday 26th July 2008 (No Sunday performance) As You Like It is not perhaps so well known as some of Shakespeare's works, yet it includes some of his most memorable poetry and songs. Jacques' recounting of the seven ages of man (All the world's a stage…) and the banished Duke's rumination on life in its natural state (Sweet are the uses of adversity…) are just two that spring to mind. With banished Dukes, cross-dressing female lead, bawdy wenches, a motley fool and a dubious clergyman, all the ingredients are there for classic Shakespeare comedy. The bucolic setting of the play sits harmoniously in an Oxford college garden to make for an evening of warm entertainment and dry wit – so it can't possibly be another cold, wet summer. Director Joe Kenneway OPEN AUDITIONS: EVERYONE WELCOME! ACTORS AND TECHNICAL / STAGE TEAM REQUIRED
Tuesday 22nd ,
Wednesday 23rd , and Monday 28th April, at
Actors please come to audition on Tuesday or Wednesday if possible, and be prepared to be recalled on Monday. See below for audition pieces to read before attending (no need to learn by heart!).
Everyone welcome: as well as actors, we
need help with design, set construction, For more information, please call Kevin on 01865 723533. * * * * *
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