TONIGHT – Friday, May 20, at 7.45pm, Thame Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame – Doomed Women, a double bill of two fascinating one-act plays. Following excellent reviews and sell out shows in Edinburgh last year, the five-star rated company, A Drunken Sailor, are touring DOOMED WOMEN nationally in 2016: Drama from the award-winning playwright Joan Greening (creator of ITV’s Cabbage Patch and Trouble and Strife).
Five women set on a course to death or self-destruction. Who survives?
Two shows: one evening of brilliant drama and entertainment.
TERROR: During the French Revolution, two old courtesans, Jeanne Du Barry and Grace Dalrymple Elliot, spend the night together in Sainte-Pélagie Prison awaiting the guillotine the next day and hoping for a last minute reprieve. Will they find a way to escape the chop?’ Always an entertaining play – like Horrible Histories, it’s history with the horrible bits left in. ‘A great show – intelligent, funny, touching and full of interesting historical details.’ ‘ A real treat’
ROSSETTI’S WOMEN: Three of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s lovers, the prostitute Fanny Cornforth, the ghost of Lizzie Siddal, and Jane, wife of his best friend, William Morris, – fight each other to prove whom he loved best.
‘Clever, entertaining and well-executed…. The production features a fantastic performance by Munrow and offers thought-provoking observations on love, relationships and life along the way.’ Past praise for performers Julia Munrow and Julia Rufey. ‘Funny and touching’ (Times). ‘Hilarious’ (Guardian) ‘Exerts a control over the stage that is almost tangible'( Herald)‘ Funny and engaging’ Broadway Baby.
Tickets for Doomed Women cost £10 and are available as usual from Spear Travels on 01844 217228 or online from thameplayers.co.uk.
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