| The "Mad Woman” returned - March 08 |
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RECENT NEWS EVENT: Following a highly successful tour in 2006, “The Mad Woman In The Attic”, the one-woman comedy show written by Coleford-based playwright, Sian Williams, returned to village halls in Somerset and Dorset Saturday 15th March saw this amusing monologue in action. The village hall in Luxborough was once again packed with people from surrounding towns and villages. The doors opened at 7pm and the hall quickly filled. That pre show anticipation was felt as people met up with friends over drinks, teas and coffee. During the interval the lights went up to a general buzz of delighted chatter from the audience. Moving amonst groups of people socialising and enjoying their interval drinks and ices, many comments were heard praising the performance by Sally Sanders. It is no wonder the Boiling Kettle Theatre Company had been asked to tour this production a second time. Loud laughter and chuckles abounded throughout this well acted performance. It was well written and had a great story line with many moving moments and some very funny lines. The performance is a hilarious account of the ways in which a family tries to restrict the social life of one member of the family - a senior citizen with a sense of humour. It features Sally Sanders as Pat, the rebellious grand mother whose jokes and experiments in cyberspace have disconcerting results on an international basis. Tickets for this are a must for anyone with a granny or parent creeping towards senior citizenship - you'll never see a mature cyclist near a traffic speed camera in the same light again. 
 Boiling Kettle Theatre Company was set up in December 2005 by three women:Sian Williams, Anne Pearson and Sally Sanders, to bring professional performances of new work to small rural venues. Supported by Take Art Live and Arts reach the village performance schemes for Somerset and Dorset, “The Mad Woman In The Attic” opens at Wanstrow Village Hall on Friday 1st February and tours to fifteen other venues before finishing its run at Cerne Abbas on 5th April. Boiling Kettle Theatre Company: 10/b, The Crescent, Coleford, Radstock, Somerset BA3 5RS (01373) 812 793 www.boilingkettle.co.uk THE MAD WOMANIN THE ATTIC(A comic monologue)by Sian Williamswith Sally Sanders as PAT Directed by Anne Pearson “I will stand upon my watch!” Can’t be too careful in these days of science and superstition, where the whole world is at your fingertips but your family is trying to shut you out; and everybody is worrying because there could be something very nasty lurking under the Mendip Hills. Granny getting to grips with new technology produces some surprising results. “The Mad Woman In The Attic” is a humorous, poignant play that challenges preconceptions about “senior citizens” in a world dominated by youth culture. It will strike a chord with anyone who’s going grey and give their younger friends and relations a new perspective!! Set in a rural community in Somerset, it started life as a ten minute piece which was selected for performance at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton,’s “Rough Cuts” show in Dec. 2004. The full length version was first performed as a rehearsed reading during the Stagewrite Festival Of New Writing at the Salberg Studio, Salisbury Playhouse, in June 2005. “An astounding piece of work….at times the whole audience erupted with laughter! Thoroughly recommended. Great storyline, well acted and seriously, seriously funny.” Bob Berry, Wiltshire Folk Arts. |
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