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Baroque Theatre Company presents the play within a play
Kindly Leave the Stage
UK TOUR 2016
A comedy by John Chapman
“A play within a play the laughs came thick and fast....” “The stage is
set for a superb farce full of great punch lines beautifully delivered. Baroque
Theatre is one to watch”. Eastern
Daily Press.
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Norwich based Baroque
Theatre Company announce their 2016 tour of John Chapman’s farce Kindly Leave the Stage. Back by popular
demand, and marking Baroque’s biggest to date, Kindly Leave the Stage will play in an impressive 33 venues across
the UK- from Penzance in Cornwall to Carlisle in Cumbria, and many towns and cities in between.
Kindly Leave the Stage visits a number of theatres across our region including Masham, Seaton
Delaval, Carlisle and Millom.
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The
much-lauded Kindly Leave the Stage
premiered in 1993 and is a light-hearted take on the complete theatricality of
stage folk. It is a celebration of fun, mayhem and thespian mischief and a
similar format to Noises Off - a play
within a play. The ensemble go head-to-head as they play the characters in the
play and the actors who are in the play. It’s a fast-paced farce which is easy
to watch and lots of fun. Jealousy, revelations and the precious actors’ egos
are revealed as Baroque Theatre Company bring celebrated John Chapman’s crisp
writing and hilarious ‘double entrendres’ to life.
The play
tells the story of Rupert and Sarah whose marriage is on the rocks. Their friends
Charles and Madge are both lawyers and agree to handle the divorce. Just after
curtain up, Rupert forgets his lines, has a brain storm and threatens to kill
Charles in full view of the audience because he’s been having an affair off
stage, with his real wife, Madge. The rest of the cast try to ignore the
incident and forge ahead with the original play but Rupert picks up a knife and
advances on Charles, who is forced to take cover in a large cabin storage trunk
which is on the set at the time. A real-life marital comedy evolves.
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The
situation is further complicated when the actor playing the old father, Edward,
makes his entrance. He is an ageing Shakespearean star, once famous for his
King Lear but now an alcoholic and down on his luck. He happens to have asked
his new agent to the performance that night. Edward is blissfully unaware that
the play has switched from art to life. Out of loyalty to a fellow actor, the
rest of the cast do their best to accommodate the poor chap, but he gradually
begins to think he is going mad, especially as some of his cues are coming from
the storage trunk.
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Cast in the
role of Rupert is Ivan Wilkinson. Wilkinson returns to Baroque Theatre Company,
after two previous tours with the company, playing Sergeant Lewis in House of Ghosts: An Inspector Morse Mystery
and Dr Watson in Sherlock Holmes and the
Case of the Christmas Carol. He attended Mountview Academy for Theatre Arts, graduating in 2003.
Wilkinson is joined by actors Paul Cleveland (Charles), Claire Bibby (Madge),
Talitha Willsea (Sarah), Patricia Derrick (Mrs Cullen), Elizabeth Goram-Smith
(Angela), Helen Fullerton (Nurse Brown) and David Shackleton (Edward).
The
production’s director is award-winning Adam Morley. No stranger to radio, TV
and theatre, Morley has directed over sixty productions including Newsrevue, the world’s longest running
live comedy show at the Canal Café Theatre in London. To date, Morley has directed eleven
productions for Baroque Theatre Company including Great Expectations in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the
birth of Charles Dickens in 2010, Up
Pompeii, The 101 Dalmatians and
most recently Sherlock Holmes and the
Case of the Christmas Carol and The
Great Santa Kidnap. Morley is the associate director at Canal Café Theatre
and artistic director of Baroque Theatre Company.
Lighting and
sound is by James Wenn and costume design by Suzanne Bell.
Travelling from venue to venue and back to
home-base in Norwich during the 12-week, 33-venue stint, ‘Madge’, Baroque
Theatre Company’s faithful tour van, and the show’s eight actors, will clock up
over 5000 miles during the 2016 Kindly Leave the Stage engagement-
that’s a staggering 101 hours (4 days) on the road!
"This imaginative and worthwhile play has
been brilliantly revived and the delicious deconstruction of traditional farce,
directed by Adam Morley, pleased all the audience. If it’s anywhere
near you, don’t miss it” Eastern Daily Press
Creatives:
Director: Adam Morley
Producer: Claire Bibby
Sponsored by: Julian Bibby, Clarian Ltd
Stage Manager: Katie Patrick
Lighting & Sound Technician: James Wenn
Costume Design: Suzanne Bell
On The Web:
Tickets:
Friday 6 May at 7.30pm
Masham Town Hall,
Little Market Place, Masham, North Yorkshire HG4 4DY
Ticket Prices: £8.00 (Full) £5.00 (Concessions)
Saturday 7 May at 7.30pm
Seaton Delaval Arts Centre, Blyth Street, Seaton Delaval, Whitley
Bay, Northumberland NE25 0DY
Box Office: 0191 237 5460 www.seatondelavalartscentre.com
Box Office: 0191 237 5460 www.seatondelavalartscentre.com
Ticket Prices: £9.00 (Full) £8.00 (Concessions)
Wednesday 22 June at 7.30pm
Stanwix Theatre, University of Cumbria, Brampton Road, Carlisle, Cumbria CA3 9AY
Tickets: £10.00 (adults) £8.00 (concessions) £6.00 (members)
Thursday 23 June
at 7.30pm
The Beggar’s Theatre, Market Square, Millom,
Cumbria LA18 4HZ
Tickets: £12.00 (full) £10.00 (concessions)
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