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PHOTOS BY ROSEY PURCHASE
NUNCRACKERS - DECEMBER 2023
Directed by KATE BENNETT
Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical
is the first "TV Special" taped by the sisters in their convent basement studio for Cable Access. It stars the nuns you love plus Father Virgil and some of Mt. Saint Helen's most talented students. It features all new songs including: Twelve Days Prior to Christmas, Santa Ain't Comin' To Our House, We Three Kings of Orient Are Us, and It's Better to Give Than To Receive. This show is filled with "Nunsense" humor, some of your favorite carols, a "Secret Santa," and an uproarious take on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet. Nuncrackers will make you laugh and maybe tug at your heartstrings. It's the perfect way to insure your holiday season is merry and bright.
HOME, I'M DARLING - OCTOBER 2023
Directed by HELEN HARRIES-REES
It's 1927 and Daisy Meredith is the first scholarship girl taken from an elementary school to be allowed access to the hallowed halls of Grangewood School for Young Ladies.
Enthusiastic and plucky to the last, Daisy finds herself struggling against unspeakable snobs Sybil and Monica and their ghastly schemes to get her expelled. Ably assisted by her new best friend, madcap and self styled poet, Trixie Martin, Daisy finds herself caught up in a series of irresistible adventures including the search for missing treasure. Can they work out the mysterious clues and save the school from closure? Or will they be beaten by the enigmatic Mr Scoblowski?
DAISY PULLS IT OFF - AUGUST 2023
Directed by DAWN SMITHERS
Every couple needs a little fantasy to keep their marriage sparkling. But behind the gingham curtains, things start to unravel for Judy and Johnny who have adopted almost all they can of a 50’s lifestyle in the modern day. Not just enthusiasts with the cars and the vintage clothes, they have gone the whole hog. No mobiles, a 50-year-old fridge, daily ‘old fashioned’ fixed for hubby to wind down after work. Judy leads the way and loves her new-found freedom of housewifery - greeting Johnny every evening with a kiss before taking his coat, replacing his shoes for slippers, and slapping a meat and two veg dinner on the table. But is being a domestic goddess all it’s cracked up to be? While Judy sees no flaws in their choice to live as a ‘50’s couple’ in the 2020’s, Johnny and her mother are not so sure....
TOMBOY - AUGUST 2023
By STUART SMITHERS Directed by MURIEL CARNEGIE
In the gymnasium of Grangewood School, the ‘Class of ‘73’ reunion party is in full swing. Seeking refuge from the melee, Andy finds himself in the school hall which has changed little since he was last there, fifty years ago. He is joined by contemporaries, Gerry and Val, and their acquaintance is gradually renewed. A mutual secret, hidden away since their shared school days, reveals itself to devastating effect.
KINDERTRANSPORT - FEBRUARY 2023
Directed by GILL LAMBOURN
The Kindertransport was a British rescue mission that took place at the beginning of WWII. Over 10,000 Jewish children from various countries were placed in British foster homes. Helga and Werner Schlesinger are parents faced with the difficult choice of keeping their beloved daughter Eva in Germany with them, or letting her become one of the Kindertransport children, who are sent to the UK, alone. When Eva arrives in London, speaking no English, and feeling very much abandoned, she is taken under the wing of Lil Miller.
JANE EYRE - APRIL 2023
Directed by JAMIE CRAKER
Jane Eyre may be poor, obscure, plain and little, but she has heart and soul – and plenty of it.
Chris Bush's witty and fleet-footed adaptation lays bare the beating heart of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, whilst staying true to its revolutionary spirit.
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES - FEBRUARY 2023
Directed by TONY HUDSON
Adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholsons Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a gloriously funny makeover. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a gloriously funny makeover. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his estate, with a look of terror still etched on his face, and the paw prints of a gigantic hound beside his body, the great detective Sherlock Holmes is summoned from Baker Street, with Dr Watson in tow, to unravel the mysteries surrounding his death, and investigate the ancient curse of the Hound of the Baskervilles...