SEE HOW THEY RUN By Philip King Tuesday 22nd – Saturday 26th July • 7.30pm Swansea Grand Theatre’s Summer Repertory Season 2008 launches with the classic wartime farce, See How They Run, recently revived in London’s West End, starring ‘Emmerdale’ and ‘Doctor Who’ star FRAZER HINES; GUY SINER who starred as Lt. Gruber in the unforgettable series ‘Allo ‘Allo!’ and MICHAEL SHARVELL-MARTIN, ‘No Place Like Home’. Set in the village of Merton-cum-Middlewick, See How They Run is a comedy of mistaken identities, when the Village is besieged by an escaped prisoner of war, a visiting priest, an actor and a locum priest-all at the same time! However, parish spinster Miss Skillon makes a call to the vicar with what, to her mind, is a far more pressing matter - she is outraged by the dalliances of the vicar’s wife - a former actress! Throw in some nosy neighbours and one or two disguises and the resulting baffling confusion provides a hilarious evening of fantastic entertainment. A performance in the great tradition of British farce with a brilliant cast to boot! See How They Run is the first production in the Swansea Grand Theatre Summer Repertory Season, a classic mix of Drama, Comedy, Farce and Thriller and provides a great diverting attraction for the theatregoers of Swansea. Tickets, on sale now, are available from the Theatre Box Office: 01792 475715 (www.swanseagrand.co.uk). Ticket prices range from just £9.50 - £13.50 with some great value for money ticket offers obtainable. Please check with the Box Office at the time of booking for any available offers or concessions. The Swansea Grand Theatre Summer Repertory Season is supported by Swansea Sound, The Heart of South West Wales. The Business of Murder By Richard Harris Tuesday 29thJuly – Saturday 2nd August • 7.30pm The Business of Murder is the second production in the Swansea Grand Theatre Summer Repertory Season - a classic mix of Drama, Comedy, Farce and Thriller - providing a great diverting attraction for the theatregoers of Swansea. 'The Business of Murder’ stars Stephen Beckett, best known for his ongoing role as Dr Matt Ramsden in ‘Coronation Street’ and for his five years as PC Mike Jarvis in ‘The Bill’. Dee, a successful TV writer, arrives at the flat of a man called Stone, having accepted an invitation to discuss a script his wife has written. She is rather surprised when Detective Inspector Hallet, with whom she is having an affair, also arrives, apparently to investigate a matter concerning Stone's son and his involvement with a drugs ring. But where are his wife and son? After many twists and turns, Stone's intentions become clear as he slowly reveals the precise nature of the trio's relationship. It seems that, in their own way, all three are very much concerned with the business of murder, and the play culminates in another perpetration of the crime. 'The Business of Murder' promises an evening of gripping drama with plenty of twists and turns right up until the final climax. Tickets, on sale now, are available from the Theatre Box Office: 01792 475715 (www.swanseagrand.co.uk). Ticket prices range from just £9.50 - £13.50 with some great value for money ticket offers obtainable. Please check with the Box Office at the time of booking for any available offers or concessions. Daisy Pulls It Off By Denise Deegan Tuesday 5th – Saturday 9th August • 7.30pm Daisy Pulls It Off, the third production in the Swansea Grand Theatre Summer Repertory Season - a classic mix of Drama, Comedy, Farce and Thriller - providing a great diverting attraction for the theatregoers of Swansea. The world famous ‘Daisy Pulls it Off starring JULIA MALLAM, Emmerdale’s Dawn Hope, and CARLY HILLMAN (Nicki di Marco from EastEnders). Denise Deegan’s Daisy Pulls it Off is an affectionate, keenly observed parody of life in an English boarding school for girls in a bygone era. A smash hit in the West End, this topping yarn was described by The Sunday Times as “perfectly ripping, absolutely spiffing not to mention scrummy entertainment". The plucky heroine, Daisy Meredith, an elementary school girl, is forced to face and overcome snobbish prejudice from both staff and pupils but with her chum, Trixie Martin the madcap poet, she forms a secret society to find the missing treasure that would save the school as well as finding the time for a cliff top rescue and a jolly good game of hockey! This enchanting nostalgic production is brimful of old fashioned values, midnight feats and a jolly good adventure story to boot that will appeal to the whole family. Tickets, on sale now, are available from the Theatre Box Office: 01792 475715 (www.swanseagrand.co.uk). Ticket prices range from just £9.50 - £13.50 with some great value for money ticket offers obtainable. Please check with the Box Office at the time of booking for any available offers or concessions. Don’t Look Now From the novel by Daphne Du Maurier Adapted for the stage by Nell Leyshon Tuesday 12th – Saturday 16th August • 7.30pm Don’t Look Now, the fourth production in the Swansea Grand Theatre Summer Repertory Season - a classic mix of Drama, Comedy, Farce and Thrills - provides a great diverting attraction for the theatregoers of Swansea. Daphne Du Maurier’s classic thriller Don’t Look Now starring Rula Lenska. What begins as a moving examination of grief becomes a chilling tale with a dark and terrifying climax. Filmed in 1973 with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. Following the death of their young daughter, John and Laura visit Venice to try and escape their grief. But when the couple meet two aged sisters, one of whom claims to have psychic visions of the dead girl, strange things start to happen. John finds their influence on Laura unsettling and suspects them of deceit whilst beginning to question his own sanity and that of his wife who seems to be completely under their command. Their obsession and fear reach a dramatic conclusion in this supernatural thriller. This classic drama, directed by IAN DICKENS, promises an evening of suspense and intrigue from the pen of the celebrated author Daphne Du Maurier. Tickets, on sale now, are available from the Theatre Box Office: 01792 475715 (www.swanseagrand.co.uk). Ticket prices range from just £9.50 - £13.50 with some great value for money ticket offers obtainable. Please check with the Box Office at the time of booking for any available offers or concessions. Run For Your Wife By Ray Cooney Tuesday 19th – Saturday 23rd August • 7.30pm Run For Your Wife, the final production in the Swansea Grand Theatre Summer Repertory Season - a classic mix of Drama, Comedy, Farce and Thrills - provides a great diverting attraction for the theatregoers of Swansea. Ray Cooney’s hilarious farce RUN FOR YOUR WIFE with an all-star cast including MELVYN HAYES (Bombadier ‘Gloria’ Beaumont in IT AIN’T HALF HOT MUM); MARK WINGETT (THE BILL), PAUL HENRY (CROSSROADS), BARRY HOWARD (Barry Stuart-Hargreaves, the champion ballroom dancer in BBC TV's hugely popular series HI-DE-HI!); MICHELLE MORRIS (THE KNOCK) and long-standing Ian Dickens’ company favourite, DAVID CALLISTER. John Smith is a London cabbie with his own taxi, a wife in Streatham, a wife in Wimbledon- and a knife-edge schedule! By strict adherence to this schedule, he has been a successful, if tired, bigamist for three years, but one day, gallantly intervening in a mugging; he is taken to hospital with mild concussion. In the ensuing complications, aided by an unwilling Stanley, John tries bravely to cope with a succession of well-meaning but prying policemen, the press, two increasingly irate wives and a very gay neighbour, until he manfully confesses the truth- but no one believes him! RUN FOR YOUR WIFE is perhaps the world’s most famous modern farce delivering an evening of riotous entertainment for all. “A frolic? It is much more than that, it is a triumph.” Daily Telegraph Tickets, on sale now, are available from the Theatre Box Office: 01792 475715 (www.swanseagrand.co.uk). Ticket prices range from just £9.50 - £13.50 with some great value for money ticket offers obtainable. Please check with the Box Office at the time of booking for any available offers or concessions. |
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