September & October Events

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Oundle’s Stahl Theatre

The Stahl Theatre’s new season will include:

Stella

by Siobhán Nicholas

Thursday 12th September

7.45pm Tickets: £9.50

In ancient civilisations, temple priestesses meticulously mapped the heavens, seeking to understand  their gods… and so Astronomy was born. This is a play about Time and Space: two women astronomers, Jessica Bell from the C21st and Caroline Herschel from the C18th look up at the same night sky and find themselves colliding in their search for understanding. Caroline longs for a family and home of her own; Jess contemplates the prospect of losing both. Each woman can precisely map her position in the universe yet she struggles to find her place in the world.

STELLA is funded by Arts Council England, Science and Technology and Facilities Council and The Institute of Physics.

Ghosts

by Henrik Ibsen - adapted by Alfred Enoch

from William Archer’s translation.

Sell a Door Theatre Company

Thursday 19th and Friday 20th September

7.45pm Tickets: £9.50

Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. Helen Alving is trapped in a world where the ‘dead ideas’ preached by Pastor Manders rule outright, and her own family’s insidious legacy threatens scandal. She is desperately trying to conceal her husband’s philandering past by building an orphanage in his name, under the pastor’s guiding hand. But the celebrated return of her estranged son Oswald brings Helen’s ghosts back to haunt her, and all hopes of success are reduced to ashes.

Though penned in 1881, it is not hard for us to see the parallels in our own society; the pious leaders of the past replaced with our own custodians of the status quo, and money their new religion.

Our Town

by Thornton Wilder

Tuesday 8th, Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th October

7.45pm Tickets: £6

First performed in 1938, Our Town is a seminal Twentieth Century American play that toys with theatre convention and has captured the hearts and minds of audiences ever since. Guided by the

Stage Manager, we experience daily life in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, and in particular the lives of the Webb and Gibbs families from early days, through love and marriage and on to death and eternity. Whimsical and realistic by turns, packed full of believable characters and startling insight into human life,  this powerful play is one of the stage’s great works of the imagination.

Kathryn Francis directs a talented cast from Oundle School’s Fifth Form. This amateur production of Our Town is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH LTD.

The Women

by Clare Boothe Luce

Thursday 31st October and Friday 1st November

7.45pm Tickets: £5:00

A vibrant and entertaining commentary on Manhattan’s women of the 1920s, The Women chronicles what happens when the wealthy battle it out to be the socialite of the season.

Mary Haines’ husband, Stephen has  an affair, that is published in a gossip magazine, with Crystal. After hearing, two years and a divorce later, that Crystal has since been unfaithful to Stephen,

Mary plots to expose her in a bid to win him back. This social satire will have you in fits over its outrageous New York high flyers.

Performed by a talented cast from Wyatt House under the direction of pupil

Lily Morrish-Postlethwaite.

The Stahl Theatre

The Stahl Theatre

The Stahl Theatre

The Stahl Theatre