Past productions.
Indulgence Theatre Company presents Arthur Miller´s classic drama, set during the Salem witch hunt of 1692. The small community is stirred into panic by superstition, rumour, malice and paranoia.
The tragic climax is a relevant and timely reminder of the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.
Blithe Spirit was Coward´s own favourite play, written in an amazing five days during one of the darkest periods of the war. That it then ran for over four years is not surprising. It really is a wonderful antidote to depression.
Returning for their annual theatrical spectacular, Indulgence theatre offers an evening of fast–paced, comical interaction with the spirit world. Noel Coward´s evergreen comedy is a classic cocktail of the supernatural and the suburban.
Smug socialites Charles and Ruth Condomine (Mr Matthew Morrissey and Mrs Joanna Hollingworth) invite eccentric local psychic Madame Arcati (Mrs Elizabeth Lucas) to hold a séance for them: he´s a sceptical writer and he wants to do a little research. Then, the negligée-clad ghost of his glamorous first wife, Elvira (Miss Janie Atcheson), actually turns up. There can have been few funnier situations in the history of comedy than this of a man caught between a bossy sexless wife and a gloriously sexy one… we´ll leave you to decide which is which!
Ever had the smell of disinfectant in your nostrils, the taste of Space Dust on your tongue and the sound of Duran Duran ringing in your ears…? Then this play is for you…
Meet Hobby, Salty and Gail. Three bored, disillusioned 16 year olds in a large comprehensive school sometime in the late eighties whose lives are transformed by the arrival of ‘a brand new, sparkling clean, not even out of the box’ drama teacher. He encourages them to put together a play about life in their school which they perform with enthusiasm and imagination, playing several different pupils and staff members each. It’s witty, fast paced, and fabulously funny, punctuated with some wonderfully nostalgic eighties sounds…a must for anyone who has ever been to school…
´Cloud Nine´ by Caryl Churchill is a biting, witty satire in which all your assumptions about sex and gender will be stunningly exploded.
Victoria, Betty and Edward escape the confinement and suffocation of sexual repression in 19th century Africa to find themselves 100 years later (though only 25 years older) in 1970s liberated London, where it seems anything goes - but are they any closer to reaching Cloud Nine?
Young women are never happy. Then, when they´re older they look back see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.
'...If rumour is to be believed, Mr Coward wrote this in three days, wearing a flowered dressing-gown and working only before breakfast...'
First performed in 1925, this sparkling comedy of bad manners begins with the arrival of four guests, invited independently by different members of the bohemian Bliss family for a weekend at their country house. The promise of an idyllic and peaceful stay is quickly dashed as they are in turn ignored, embarrassed or humiliated and ultimately abandoned by their hosts who are far more engrossed in themselves and their own family disputes.
The Way of the World is a play written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, England. It is widely regarded as being one of the best Restoration comedies written and is still performed sporadically to this day. The play is renowned for being very complicated and audiences, even at the time, would sometimes find themselves becoming confused with its long discussions of contracts. This is made all the more true in the present day because of its occasional use of what is now archaic language.
The play follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the future first emperor of Rome.