Playhouse Creatures
Playhouse Creatures
Performance Dates 6th – 9th March 2024
Director – Nick Vause
Stage Manager – Trevor Hodd
Lighting & Sound – Roger Huggins & Steve Croft
Props & set dressing –Helen Coffer and Linda Williamson
Costumes – Babs Phillpot
“This play has adult content and is not suitable for younger audience members” as, although often very funny it has some hard hitting adult language and themes….
About this performance
Cast
Doll Common – Anna Macer
Nell Gwynn – Tamsin Goodwin-Connelly
Mrs Farley – Shevaughn Seedall
Mrs Betterton – Catherine Little
Mrs Marshall – Lorraine Bottomley
It’s 1663. Charles the Second reopens the Playhouses and for the first time ever, women are allowed to appear on the stage; for not four women in particular, this was the beginning of an exciting new era. We follow them on to the stage as they perform scenes from some of the popular plays of the time but we also go backstage to glimpse their strong friendships and fierce rivalries. The dressing room is a place of camaraderie and laughter but the women cannot escape the fact that it is the men who still hold the power to make or break their careers. With its many contemporary resonances, this is a hard-hitting, powerful, sometimes hilarious and often deeply moving play about the trials and tribulations of working in the theatre. These women were pioneers. Come and find out more about their fascinating stories!
