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2008 *Scriptless Wonder* – improvisation DIRECTOR REQUIRED – any volunteers welcome! Auditions: w/c 19^th May Rehearsals: w/c 2^nd June to 11^th August Performances: w/c 11^th August Cast: Ideally 4 Male, 4 Female + an MC but can be any split Synopsis: This is our annual improv comedy show, usually performed as part of Abbeyfest in south London. You've probably heard of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, well The Scriptless Wonder is similar, only better! We provide a series of workshops to help develop your improv skills and culminates in a week of performances where two teams battle it out the be The Scriptless Wonders! *Hamlet* by William Shakespeare Auditions: w/c 25^th August Rehearsals: w/c 1^st September to 24^th November Performances: w/c 24^th November Cast: 9 Male, 2 Female plus a supporting cast of up to 30 characters! Synopsis: A modern view on this classic tragic tale 2009 *Arcadia* by Tom Stoppard DIRECTOR REQUIRED – any volunteers welcome! Auditions: w/c 5^th January Rehearsals: w/c 12^th January to 6^th April Performances: w/c 6^th April Cast: 7 Male, 5 Female Synopsis: Arcadia is set in Sidley Park, an English country house in the years 1809 and 1989 alternately, juxtaposing the activities of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier. In 1809, Thomasina Coverly, the daughter of the house, is a precocious teenager with ideas about mathematics well ahead of her time. She studies with her tutor, Septimus Hodge, a friend of Lord Byron, who is an unseen guest in the house. In 1989, a writer and an academic converge on the house: Hannah Jarvis, the writer, is investigating a hermit who once lived on the grounds; Bernard Nightingale, a professor of literature, is investigating a mysterious chapter in the life of Byron. As their investigations unfold, helped by Valentine Coverly, a post-graduate student in mathematical biology, the truth about what happened in 1809 is gradually revealed. The play's set features a large table, which is used by the characters in both 1809 and 1989. Props are not removed when the play switches time period, so that the books, coffee mugs, quill pens, portfolios, and laptop computers of 1809 and 1989 appear alongside each other in a blurring of past and present *Brothers Karamazov* an adaptation of the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel by Mehmet Izbudak Auditions: w/c 2^nd March Rehearsals: w/c 9^th March to 1^st June Performances: w/c 1^st June Cast: Of thousands! Synopsis: tbc *Scriptless Wonder* – improvisation DIRECTOR REQUIRED – any volunteers welcome! Auditions: w/c 25^th May Rehearsals: w/c 1^st June to 10^th August Performances: w/c 10^th August Cast: Ideally 4 Male, 4 Female + an MC but can be any split Synopsis: This is our annual improv comedy show, usually performed as part of Abbeyfest in south London. You've probably heard of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, well The Scriptless Wonder is similar, only better! We provide a series of workshops to help develop your improv skills and culminates in a week of performances where two teams battle it out the be The Scriptless Wonders! *Macbeth* by William Shakespeare Auditions: w/c 31^st August Rehearsals: w/c 7^th September to 30^th November Performances: w/c 30^th November Cast: 22(!) Male, 5 Female – we’ll probably change this! Synopsis: TBC *Kiss Of The Spider Woman* by Manuel Puig Cast: 2 Male, 0 Female Synopsis: Set in a cell at the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires in 1976, it shows the developing relationship of a political activist Valentin Arregui Paz and his cellmate Luis Alberto Molina, a homosexual who has apparently been 'planted' to sniff out the secrets of Valentin's Marxist groupA modern view on this classic tragic tale