MOUNT CHARLES BAND
present
PROMS AT THE MINACK
with guest soloist CHERYL BRENDISH

Saturday SEPTEMBER 18 at 7.30pm
and Sunday SEPTEMBER 19 at 2.00pm and 7.30 pm

Bring your flags, hooters and whistles and join in the fun.

The traditional 'last night of the proms' atmosphere makes a great end to the season.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY G. & S. SOCIETY
present
THE GONDOLIERS

W.S. Gilbert and A. Sullivan

SEPTEMBER 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 at 8 pm and 15 & 17 at 2 pm

From the canals of Venice to the court of Barataria, this is a rollicking ride of song, dance and impish humour.

The story begins with the gondoliers of Venice wooing and wedding the lovely flowergirls of the canals. Amid the couples are young gondolier brothers Marco and Giuseppe who are in love with Tessa and Gianetta, respectively.

THE ROVER
by Aphra Benn

SEPTEMBER 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 at 8 pm and 9 & 11 at 2 pm

Mistaken identity, drunkenness, false lovers, stolen trousers, all the elements of a Whitehall farce are to be found in this 330 year old comedy. A bawdy and boisterous battle of the sexes written by a woman playwright reckoned to be the first woman in this country to earn a living by the pen.

TRURO AMATEUR OPERATIC AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY
present
HOT MIKADO
Book and lyrics adapted by David H.Bell
Music adapted and arranged by Rob Bowman
Based on ‘The Mikado’ by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

AUGUST 30, 31, SEPTEMBER 1, 2, 3 at 8 pm and SEPTEMBER 1 & 3 at 2 pm

Picture a little town in Japan where flirting is punishable by death. Unsurprisingly its citizens are finding the law, rather, well...tiresome.

LARK RISE
based on the books by Flora Thompson

AUGUST 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 at 8 pm and AUGUST 25 & 27 at 2 pm

The play is based on Flora Thompson's popular "Lark Rise to Candleford", an account of a country childhood in the 1880s in a community whose traditional way of life was about to disappear.

THE HERTFORDSHIRE PLAYERS
present
TRUMPETS AND DRUMS
Bertold Brecht

AUGUST 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 at 8 pm and 19 & 21 at 2 pm

Brecht takes George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer and transfers it to the period of the American Revolutionary War.

Captain Plume, the officer in question, arrives in Shrewsbury from London to enquire how recruitment to fight the rebels is progressing. He receives a discouraging report of military and romantic complications.

WINCHESTER COLLEGE PLAYERS
present
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST
William Shakespeare

AUGUST 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 at 8 pm and 11 & 13 at 2 pm

The King of Navarre and the nobles of his court vow to study, fast, sleep little and see no ladies for three years. However, when the Princess of France and her ladies arrive in the kingdom, the Lords discover their resolve is more difficult to keep than they first imagined.

Shakespeare's rarely performed, exuberant comedy explores the power of love over reason.

MOBY DICK! THE MUSICAL
Book and Lyrics by Robert Longden : Music by Hereward Kaye and Robert Longden

AUGUST 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 at 8 pm and 4 & 6 at 2 pm

The girls of St. Godley’s School are in trouble! Money for the school has run out and the place will have to close.

Leave it to these resourceful girls, and their unflappable headmistress (played by a man in drag), to come up with a plan to keep the school afloat.

ON THE RAZZLE
by Tom Stoppard

JULY 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 at 8 pm and JULY 28 & 30 at 2 pm

When their boss goes off to Vienna to dine with his fiancé, his clerks decide this may be their last chance for an adventure (razzle) and head for the Big City.

Zangler must cancel his plans, as his niece has run off with her boyfriend. Naturally, soon everyone is running into everyone else!

THE BARTERED BRIDE
by Smetana
JULY 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 at 8 pm and JULY 21 & 23 at pm

Jenik and Marenka are in love, but her parents don't approve of the match. They each scheme to outwit their elders, especially the village marriage-broker, but almost double-cross each other!

In addition to the virtuoso instrumental and vocal writing, frequent dances and a troupe of traveling circus performers make Smetana's The Bartered Bride a buoyant comic masterpiece.