Nairn Drama Club presents “Calendar Girls”
“A group of extraordinary women, members of a very ordinary Yorkshire WI, persuade one another to pose for a charity calendar with a difference - no more photos of Wharfedale bridges or Norman churches for them. Overcoming their initial reserve, the friends drop their dressing gowns, their modesty spared only by artfully placed cakes, knitting and flower arrangements. Puzzling their husbands, mortifying their children and riding the wrath of the outraged WI, they spark a global phenomenon. But as media interest snowballs, the Calendar Girls find themselves exposed in ways they’d never expected, revealing more than they’d ever planned. A very English story with a very English heart, Calendar Girls is quirky, poignant and hilarious. Adapted by Tim Firth from the Miramax film of the same name, it is based on an uplifting and very inspiring true story.” - www.timfirth.com/cal_girls_stage.html
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Devised and Performed by Ellie Harrison “Etiquette of Grief is a playful and provocative solo show by performer Ellie Harrison, who takes audiences on an irreverent journey and suggests a guide for dealing with both private and public grief in all its gory and glorious manifestations.”
“In a piece which is both heart-wrenching and heart-warming, Ellie explores the wide-ranging emotions that follow an overwhelming loss and the ways in which grief touches us all, in a distinctive, interactive and powerful performance that includes her on screen alter-ego, in a celebration of our freedom of expression. This thought-provoking performance asks questions about the nature of public grief, often witnessed when a famous figure dies: does the British ‘stiff upper lip’ help or inhibit how we deal with our emotions, and is there such a thing as a collective identity that effects how we grieve? Ellie takes audiences through the sometimes uncomfortable, but also funny and peculiar, rituals of mourning, offering coping mechanisms, moral support, a little musical accompaniment and even a large splash of port.”
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An evening of readings and raffles with The Pen & I and Young Scribes at The Little Theatre All proceeds to Cancer Research UK
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Dandy Trap presents The Death of Tintagiles a play by Maurice Maeterlink.
A strange, other-worldly tale of a sister’s desperate struggle to protect her young brother. Ygraine has a brother. She loves him very much. His name is Tintagiles and he’s seven years old. He is also a prince and heir to the throne. But Ygraine suspects the old, mad queen wants him dead! Trapped in a shadowy twilight world, among the gloomy corridors of a remote castle, her plight seems hopeless against such a powerful enemy. Is there really nothing she can do to save him...?
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Touring production
This award-winning play allows us to empathise with the state of being, called dementia, taking its audience on an illuminating, at times funny, adventure into the wilds of the mind of an old actor who has been cut loose from society by a fading memory. The play says as much about the mind in old age as it does about how society perceives and behaves towards people with dementia.
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Rehearsals are now under way for Nairn Drama Club's production of “Calendar Girls” later this year! Show dates are confirmed as follows:
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