So, the performance of The Importance of Being Earnest is nearly here, October the 19th is the first performance night. So what do we have in store for you? Well luckily we’ve provided a video for you to find out!
Also don’t forget to check out the Gallery page, which also contains photoshoot pictures of the cast in character.
Auditions are done, and the CAST LIST for The Importance of Being Earnest is done.
Below you’ll find the entire cast list, or click here to find the Gallery page for the play, with complete cast listing and any upcoming announcements. COMING SOON – Cast and Crew photographs and rehearsal photography (Expected in roughly two weeks).
Algernon Moncrieff – Nathan Spencer
Jack Worthing – Rory Joscelyne
Cecily Cardew – Lizzie Smith
Gwendolyn Fairfax – Kim Tobin
Lady Bracknell – Elaine Roberts
Miss Prism – Carol-Hayes
Dr Chasuble – Ian Morton
Lane – Simon Dunn
Merriman – David Perry
Maid – Emma Banks
-CREW-
Director – Jacquee Storozynski
Stage Manager – Steve McCartney
Props Manager – Emma Banks
Photographer – Duncan Harris
A Day In The Death of Joe Egg has just been reviewed by John Giles (Southend-on-Sea Arts Council/SOSAC) and Tom King (Southend Echo). To see the reviews in their entirety, click on the Reviews link at the right side of the screen, there are also some snippets on the Joe Egg Gallery page. But to give you an idea, here are a few lines from both reviews;
“Superficially Lindisfarne are scoring a triumph with Belinda Belt’s production. It is a challenge for any director and company of actors for Peter Nichols’ works, a particular favourite of mine, are not easy to handle… Toni Taylor is magnificent as the mother, Sheila, and I could not fault her portrayal… the whole thing has a lot of theatrical magic and supporting performances by Trevor Corner as the liberal thinking do-gooder rich man and Kim Tobin as his rather obnoxious, wife are good, while the director gives a nice cameo performance as Brian’s mother… Young Tamsin Edwards is a convincingly attractive Josephine stranded helplessly in her wheelchair. Lindisfarne have got beyond the merely competent as a group and can advance to being one of the great amateur groups in South Essex.”
John Giles, SOSAC
“… Lindisfarne Players provide their usual, professional level job under the direction of Belinda Belt, who also turns in a great performance as the grand mother. But most of the evening belongs to Rob Stow and Toni Taylor, as the parents, Brian and Sheila. In their own way they are more trapped in their lives than their poor paralysed, silent daughter played by 12 year old Tamsin Edwards.”
Tom King, Southend Echo.
As you can see these are great reviews. There is still time to catch the play too! At the Dixon Studio tonight (Friday 2nd July) or there are two performances on Saturday (Matinee performance and evening performance). Don’t miss your chance to see this excellent and praised show now at the Palace Theatre, Dixon Studio in Southend-on-Sea.
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Has Lindisfarne’s own David Perry been travelling? This photograph comes from the stalls of a cricket match on 2nd June 2010. Beside the shot we have placed our photo from October 2009 when the infamous Perry was last seen wearing the horse’s head.
Lindisfarne requests that if you see the horse headed Perry anywhere on your own travels, please send us a photograph when and where you saw him.
You can send photographs to roareye @ gmail . com (You must remove the spaces between the @ and the . in order to send the email).
Lindisfarne is now running auditions for it’s next performance – The Importance of Being Earnest.
The play is to be directed by Jacquee Storozynski-Toll. Lindisfarne has performed this play twice before, as a stage play in 2003 and as a radio play in 2008, making this the third iteration by the same group. This will be the first time Jacquee Storozynski-Toll has directed a play for Lindisfarne, and Lindisfarne’s first performance of the play at the Dixon Studio. With a new director, a seven year gap since the last performance and following sellout performances of previous plays, this is a stellar opportunity to try out for a comedy performance in this Autumn’s Lindisfarne production!
Read through at Clarence Road Baptist Church Hall from 19:30 p.m. on Weds 7th July
Open Auditions at Clarence Road Baptist Church Hall from 19:30 p.m. on Thurs 8th July
Character Parts to be Cast;
Click here for the full list
Hope to see many new faces at rehearsals, we’re always looking for new talent.
A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG
Presented by Lindisfarne
When Lindisfarne went to cast their latest production A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG they definitely struck lucky with an ex-west end actress, who is only 12 years old! Tamsin Edwards plays the role of Josephine and has to remain in a wheelchair for most of the 100 minute running time. Tasmin comes fresh from her appearance in the West End production of Billy Elliott at London’s Victoria Palace Theatre and is pleased to be playing this difficult and complex role.
Synopsis
Josephine is the daughter of Brian and Sheila and has severe celebral palsy. This play takes a comic look at the trials and tribulations this young couple endure caring for a totally dependant child. Brian’s extended family also weigh in the shape of friend Freddy and his wife Pam and Brian’s mother Grace.
The play stars Rob Stow as Brian and Toni Taylor as Sheila, with Kim Tobin as Pam and Trevor Corner as Freddie with Belinda Belt as Grace.
Peter Nichols, wrote this semi-autobiographical work and based it on his own daughter Abigail who died at 14 years of age.
Come and see a challenging and darkly funny piece of 60′s theatre at the Dixon Studio, Palace Theatre from Weds June 30th – Saturday 3rd July.
Tickets £11 Adults £10 Concessions
Box Office: 01702-351135
or book on-line at http://www.southendtheatres.org.uk
Click here for the Facebook Group.
Click here for Lindisfarne’s own website.
LINDISFARNE’S GREAT PRODUCTION OF COONEY CLASSIC
Lindisfarne Players are excelling themselves at the Palace Theatre’s Dixon Studio this week until Saturday, March 27 with a really almost flawless production of the great Ray Cooney classic farce Run for Your Wife. Ray Cooney, who has close associations with Southend, living for a long time in the area and running the Palace Theatre for more than a year as the base for his touring company. Run for Your wife from the 1980s is considered by many including this reviewer his finest farce in the long series he wrote for the Whitehall Theatre company.
Steve McCartney, the director of Run for Your Wife, takes Lindisfarne to new heights with the quality of his production and is to be congratulated for getting performances of such a high standard from his whole cast and getting a superb pace to the whole production as the story of how taxi driver John Smith negotiates successfully his double life with two wives living in similar flats with his first, Mary in Wimbledon and his second, Barbara, in Streatham…
The whole thing takes place in a single set with half of the stage devoted to one flat and the second half to the other with doors used exclusively for each flat but the rest of the stage in common use but exclusive phones for each flat which produce many of the misunderstandings. It is with the phones that I have my only doubts about the production for it originally was set in the 1980s before mobile phones and this production has been updated to the present day and it is hard to believe that the taxi driver and the police would not have their own mobiles in these days. But that quibble apart the characters are played in a beautifully contrasted way.
All goes well with John’s complicated life until he is involved in an accident and seemingly disappears with both wives phoning their respective local police stations to report him missing. When he does reappear with bandaged head a detective sergeant from Wimbledon brings him home to Mary with accounts of his heroism in tackling muggers but with a mystery about the two addresses he appears to have. From then on the fun waxes fast and furious with lodger Stanley from the top flat at Wimbledon trying to help John out and being let into the secrets of John’s secret bigamous goings on.
Nathan Spencer makes a superb very ordinary Smith, who has got himself into an extraordinary situation while Robert Stow gives another fine performance as the extrovert layabout lodger Stanley. Kim Tobin is wonderfully believable as Mary, who really does not know quite what has hit her.
As the plot thickens and more and more lies are told the pace gets hotter with Toni Taylor making a nice contrast as sexy Barbara, who has Ian Morton as a very gay Bobby from her upper flat getting involved in the action and Trevor Corner as home loving Detective Sergeant Porterhouse from Streatham trying to help out with what he sees as a domestic issue. Rory Joscelyne is excellent as tough Detective Sergeant Troughton from Wimbledon who tries to lay down the firm hand of the law but in the end jumps to very much the wrong conclusions.
Rarely have I seen such a fine set of performances in modern farce from an amateur group for all the characters literally live their roles and the rich vein of laughter is fully exploited in the play which runs for just under two hours but literally has a laugh and more a minute. Well done Lindisfarne Players and may you get the full houses in the Dixon you deserve for the rest of the week
JOHN GILES
Wednesday at 7.30pm
Thursday at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Friday at 7.30pm
Saturday at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
If you are still wondering whether Run For Your Wife is your thing, head to The Gallery page to see photos from the show. The page includes;
CAST – Photos of the cast (And links to other Lindisfarne work)
CREW – Photos of the crew (And links to other Lindisfarne work)
PERFORMANCE PHOTOS – See how the play looks by the 18 performance photos on display
SET PANORAMA – A Lindisfarne first! Get a 360 degree view of the stage as an animation or as a large photo.
BEHIND THE SCENES – 27 Photos from the dress rehearsal (As well as an animation of Kim Tobin attacking Rob Stow) with everyone in full costume
TECH REHEARSALS – 10 Photos of the cast rehearsing for different lighting positions, out of costume
SET BUILDING – 12 Photos of how the set was constructed
REHEARSALS – 4 Early rehearsal photos indicating how far the play has come since the beginning.
Hopefully that will whet your appetite for the play, come see it at the Dixon Studio, Palace Theatre at any of the times mentioned above.
Cast for A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG
Bri – Rob Stow
Sheila – Toni Taylor
Pam – Kim
Freddie – Trevor
Josephine – Tamsin Edwards
Grace – Lynda Belt
The play will be directed by Lynda Belt and Steve McCartney.
Performances at Dixon Studio will be from Weds 30th June – Sat 3rd July.
Rehearsals will begin on Weds 7th April.
Cast Photos, as well as several new Behind-The-Scenes photos, have been added to the Run For Your Wife gallery page! This is the first time in Lindisfarne history that we have had any information of this kind available publicly before the performance, and hopefully it will whet your appetite for the upcoming production.
You will also notice that every cast member’s name is a link. If you click on each person it will take you to the “Meet the Players: Current Team” page, which will allow you to see history, plays and trivia on each person. This Meet The Team aspect is currently being expanded to include everyone from current and previous productions, and a “Meet the Players: Previous Members” page will be made with as much trivia and information on previous Lindisfarne Players as possible.
This Gallery and Portfolio-style setup will take some time to perfect, and what you see is not the finished product, so do check back regularly for more updates, and to see what other upcoming production work we can show you to get you all geared up for Run For Your Wife!
Rory Joscelyne.
The Lindisfarne Theatre Company
