2005/06 Season at BLT
We are pleased to be able to announce that the new season has now been fixed. Brief details of each production can be found below.If you wish to book tickets for any production you can do so by clicking the title of the production. Alternatively visit the 'Tickets' section of the website for further details. Tickets for BLT's two festival productions (The Humble Boy and Side by Side by Sondheim ) are bookable through the Festival Box Office.
Details of the 2006/07 can be found here.
All productions start at 7.45pm (unless otherwise indicated).
Tickets are currently priced at £7 (£6 Tuesdays), with the exception of Festival productions with are priced £8 (£7 concessions). As of October 2006 ticket prices will increase to £7.50 and there will be no reduction on a Tuesday evening.
The Anniversary, by Bill McIlwraith Tuesday 4th October - Saturday 8th October 2005
Despite the fact that Dad is dead, (his dying words, we’re told, being ‘now at last I’ll get some bloody peace!’) the family still gather to celebrate the anniversary of their parent’s wedding.
The question is why? The answer is so that Mum can continue to exert the relentless and obnoxious grip that she has over her sons; binding them to her with gifts, threats and the ruthless exploitation of their weaknesses. She maintains control by any means at her disposal; but not with love, oh no, there is no love in this particular family!
An
Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde
Tuesday 8th November - Saturday 12th November 2005
A dazzling blend of farce and morality, this play explores
human frailty and social hypocrisy. Sir Robert Chilton's secret is
discovered and exposed. He is accused of having exploited government
secrets for his own gain early in his political career. With this
revelation from Mrs Cheveley comes the threat of blackmail and the
ruin of Sir Robert's career. Yet in order to be a successful blackmailer,
one's own reputation must be beyond reproach...
The
Lion in Winter, by James Goldman
Tuesday 13th December - Saturday 17th December 2005
Christmas 1183. An aging and conniving King Henry II plans a reunion where
he hopes to name his successor. He summons his scheming but imprisoned
wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine; his mistress, Princess Alais, whom he
wishes to marry; his three sons (Richard, Geoffrey, and John), all of whom
desire the throne; and the young but crafty King Philip of France (who
is also Alais' brother). With the fate of Henry's empire at stake, everybody
engages in their own brand of deception and treachery to stake their claim.
Speed
the Plow, by David Mamet
Thursday 5th January - Saturday 7th January 2006
Hollywood producer Bobby Gould has spent a career reaping what others sow, until he’s forced to choose between his friend’s sure hit and a beautiful girl’s art house project. During an evening of seduction and manipulation, Bobby discovers that the power he exerts is more elusive than it seems. Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet pulls the tinsel off the town in this hilarious dissection of the movie business.
Brighton
Little Theatre Youth
Friday 13th - Saturday 14th January 2006
The 10-12 year group (Juniors) will perform Roald Dahl’s exciting tale of James and the Giant Peach (adapted for stage by Richard George) where James makes some strange new friends and has a big adventure.
Expect the unexpected with the 13-15 year group (Intermediates) on stage in a series of self-devised interlinked scenes entitled Tales of the Unexpected.
Our newly formed 16-18 years group will perform Romeo and Juliet with six actors, a chair and a rug! A simple but effective setting for one of Shakespeare’s most popular and well-known plays.
Absolutely!
{perhaps}, by Luigi Pirandello adapted by Martin Sherman
Tuesday 14th February - Saturday 18th February 2006
There are enigmatic newcomers in town:
the dark, intense, ‘Ponza’, his shy, rather eccentric mother-in-law ‘Signora
Frola’; and his reclusive young wife. No one understands their
bizarre living arrangements. Everyone has a different theory as to the
truth - and no one will countenance any other explanation. No one, that
is, except for the wry and elegant ‘Laudisi’. He mischievously
offers to establish the truth - and takes delight in his neighbours'
growing frustration as they watch: “fantasy and reality dancing
together, rather gracefully in fact - and suddenly you can't tell the
difference between them”.
The
Weir, by Conor McPherson
Tuesday 28th March - Saturday 1st April 2006
The local men gather as usual in an isolated Irish bar, but this time they are joined by a young woman who has recently moved into the area. They start telling ghost stories, but the talk moves from leprachauns to something far more sinister and moving. Made up of several monologues linked with sharply observed conversation, this is a warm play that draws you gently but firmly into the action.
Humble Boy, by Charlotte Jones BOOK
THROUGH FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE
Tuesday 9th May - Saturday 13th May 2006
(Festival 1)
This Hamlet-esque comedy combines love, death and family - Felix Humble's father has just died, his mother wants to marry his ex-girlfriend's father and Felix's stutter has returned.
Side
by Side by Sondheim, by Ned Sherrin BOOK
THROUGH FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE
Tuesday 23rd May - Saturday 27th May 2006 (Festival 2)
Husbands and housewives, geishas and strippers, stewardesses, ingénues and chorus girls are masterfully linked together in a stunning series of hits by musical theatre's most brilliant composer, Stephen Sondheim. In tossing aside plot, and focusing instead on the sophistication, wit, insight and power that lie at the heart of these memorable songs from landmark Sondheim shows --Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, West Side Story, Gypsy we see the genius that is Stephen Sondheim.
Life
x 3, by Yasmina Reza
Tuesday 4th July - Saturday 8th July 2006
A couple arrive at their friends for a dinner party a day early! As the evening degenerates we see the same scene 3 times watching the subtle changes in the 4 characters thus providing a different outcome each time.
Tom
Jones, by Henry Fielding
Tuesday 1st - Saturday
5th August @ BLT, Wednesday 16th - Saturday 19th August @ Lewes Castle
The account of the fall and rise of Tom Jones, a vital but imprudent young man, is essentially a comic romance, rooted in the tried narrative conventions of romance and epic, but with an important difference. Tom is a bastard, 'a foundling,' with a generous heart but a weak will; by the standards of the time he is a rather unheroic hero.
Crown
Matrimonial, by Royce Ryton
Tuesday 19th September - Saturday 23rd September 2006
In the 70th anniversary year of the abdication of Edward VIII BLT
will be staging Royce Ryton’s Crown Matrimonial.
Edward
VIII "…abandoned the Crown and Country for the
woman he loved". Was it 'the supreme sacrifice of a man who
put love above all' or 'a selfish and irresponsible dereliction of
duty'? Played out against a background of political anxiety and family
tension, the play focuses on the drama leading to the abdication
of Edward VIII.