Sidmouth Summer Rep Season 2015

A Season of 12 classic plays at the Manor Pavilion Theatre in Sidmouth from Thursday 25 June to Friday 25 September 2015

Paul Taylor Mills Ltd is delighted to announce The Summer Rep Season 2015, bringing weekly rep back to Manor Pavilion Theatre with one company presenting a season of twelve classic revivals from Thursday 25 June to Friday 25 September 2015. On sale Friday 22 May at the box office and Saturday 23 May by phone.

Paul Taylor-Mills said today: "We are absolutely delighted to be returning for our third year at the Manor Pavilion Theatre with such a brilliant team and company of actors. We look forward to sharing this with you at our season launch on Thursday 21 May prior to the box office opening on the morning of Friday 22 May".

The 2015 Season will feature twelve classic revivals:

HAY FEVER
By Noel Coward
Thursday 25 June - Wednesday 1 July 2015

Set in an English country house in the 1920s, the Bliss family are incapable of sharing the spotlight. Secret seductions and scandalous revelations proliferate during one outrageous weekend in Berkshire.

JOKING APART
By Alan Ayckbourn
Thursday 2 - Wednesday 8 July 2015

From the pen of the most prolific British playwright, a dark comedy about friends you love to hate and hate to love.

AMY'S VIEW
By David Hare
Thursday 9 - Wednesday 15 July 2015

Spanning a period of sixteen years, a multi-award winning drama about women, family, love and loss, set in an England corroded by the political forces of the 1980s.

SWEET REVENGE
By Francis Durbridge
Thursday 16 - Wednesday 22 July 2015

From the master of suspense comes Durbridge's final and arguably most gripping play. The stakes have never been higher as Ross, a happily married cardiac surgeon finds out his wife is in love with a notorious womaniser.

SEPTEMBER TIDE
By Daphne Du Maurier
Thurs 23 - Wednesday 29 July 2015

From the mistress of suspense and intrigue comes this classic familial play set in a cottage on the Cornish estuary during post-war Britain. From the pen that bought us Rebecca, The Birds and Jamaica Inn this promises to be a night of love, lust and riveting drama.

OUT OF ORDER
By Ray Cooney
Thursday 30 - Friday 31 July 2015
And Saturday 8 - Wednesday 12 August 2015

Winner of the 1991 Olivier Award for Best Comedy. When Richard Willey, a government minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition's typists, things go disastrously wrong in this hugely enjoyable farce.

ROPE
By Patrick Hamilton
Thursday 13 - Wednesday 19 August 2015

When two Oxford undergraduates invite guests to dine off the chest containing the body of their victime, they believe they have committed the perfect murder. But will the truth be discovered? From the pen of Gaslight.

THE MATING GAME
By Robin Hawdon
Thursday 20 - Wednesday 26 August 2015

Set in the modern Mayfair flat of a famous television personality: Draycott Harris. He has a reputation of being a stud. However his romantic interludes are interrupted by his ultra-modern furniture and his own incompetence!

WAIT UNTIL DARK
By Frederick Knott
Thursday 27 - Wednesday 2 Sep 2015

This masterfully constructed thriller moves from one moment of suspense to another as it builds toward an electrifying, breath-stopping final scene. From the pen of Dial M For Murder.

BOEING BOEING
By Marc Camoletti
Thursday 3 - Wednesday 9 September 2015

It’s the 1960s and swinging bachelor Bernard couldn't be happier: three stewardesses all engaged to him without knowing about each other. But life gets bumpy when all three are in town and catastrophe looms.

HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Thursday 10 - Wednesday 16 September 2015

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are in pursuit to uncover the truth behind the curse of the Baskervilles before it claims its next victim. Intrigue and suspense drive this fast-paced thriller.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
By Oscar Wilde
Thursday 17 - Friday 25 September 2015

A sparkling comedy of manners as elegantly English as afternoon tea. Don't miss James Pellow as the formidable Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s much loved masterpiece.

The 2015 Season Company is Alec Fellows-Bennett, Andrew Beckett, Anton Tweedale, Chris Casey, Daniele Coombe, Ellen Verenieks, Ethan Chapples, Evie Lockley, Fiz Marcus, Francis Adams, Gary Roe, Grace Miller, Hannah Vesty, James Lawrence, James Pellow, John Askew, Jonathan Ray, Julie Ross, Lou Lou Mason, Matthew Curnier, Natalie Douglas, Nova Skipp, Pearl Marsland, Russell Anthony, Sabi Perez, Sarah Dearlove, Sarah Dungworth, Sarah Kempton, Stephanie Willson, Toby Joyce and Tom Read Wilson.

The Summer Rep Season 2015 is directed by Paul Taylor-Mills (Out of Order), Lillie Collier (Hay Fever, Boeing Boeing), Stuart Burrows (Amy's View, Rope), Andrew Beckett (Joking Apart, The Mating Game, Hound of the Baskervilles), Max Reynolds (September Tide), James Murphy (Sweet Revenge, Wait Until Dark) and James Pellow (The Importance of Being Earnest). It is produced by Paul Taylor-Mills and Lillie Collier with Associate Producer Kylie Vilcins. It is designed by David Shields with costumes designs by Barbara Williams and lighting by Tony Hill.

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