September 2008
NEWSLETTER
Forthcoming Production
Kindertransport
Wednesday 1 to Saturday 4 October 2008
8.pm
BOX OFFICE
Tickets are £8 each (unless stated otherwise) and are available from the box office on 01293 522763. Please leave a message on the answer phone or visit the Box Office in person on Sundays between 1 and 2 pm
Theatre programme
1-4 October 2008 Kindertransport
Directed by Sylvia Temple and John Miller
4-7 and 10-13
December 2008 Treasure Island
Adapted and directed by Dave Moody
2009
4-7 March Filomena
Directed by Victoria Milham
13-16 May Portrait of Fear
Directed by Stewart Lock
22-25 July Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Directed by John Miller
Latecomers to performances will not be allowed into the auditorium until the end of a scene or an act, in order to lessen the disruption of the performance for other members of the audience.
We look forward to the return of "Isosceles", a professional theatre company who has visited us before. It is quite a long time since they last entertained with several comedies, but this time they are thrilling their audiences with "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". The production is based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and has been praised by everyone who has seen it.
Date Saturday 20th September 2008 @ 8p.m.
Tickets £6 from the Box Office by telephone or manned box office on Sunday September 12th and 19th from 1.00p.m. until 2.00p.m
Green Room Events
FOR MORE DETAILS OF EVENTS ASK AT THEATRE BAR.
OR RING STEWART LOCK ON 01293 513524
Sunday 14 September...HOG ROAST
A joint venture with St Margaret's Church... a HOG ROAST
Tickets are available from behind the bar COST £10:00 Numbers are strictly limited
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Friday 19 September PAINTING EVENING
Join us for the start of the masterpiece season
Friday 26 September... FILM.... SONG OF THE SOUTH
Walt Disney's film of the deep south of America containing stories told by Uncle Remus about Brer Rabbit and his friends in the briar patch. This is a wonderful film with humans and animation. Curtain up at 8:30pm
Sunday 28 September SUNDAY LUNCH
Another chance to sample the delights of someone else’s cooking
Friday 10 October .THE PUDDING CLUB RETURNS
Bring your favourite pudding for others to sample while you taste theirs. This is not a night to worry about those calories….
Friday 17 October....PAINTING EVENING
Finish off last month's masterpiece before the paint gets dry!
Saturday 18 & Sunday 19th.... THE BIG DRAW
A national drawing/ painting weekend
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Friday 24 October A WINE TASTING BY CHARLES HENNING
Look for details at the Barn or ring Stewart Lock 513524 for more information.
Sunday 26 October... LUNCH
More calories, less work! Come along and join the diners club.
Friday 31 October PLAY READING
ADVANCE NOTICE
GREEN ROOM EVENTS FOR NOVEMBER
7th BONFIRE NIGHT
14thQUIZ NIGHT
21STTHOMAS COOK TRAVEL NIGHT
WATCH OUT FOR MORE DETAILS LATER AND AT THE BARN
The Big Draw
(No, it’s not a chance for you to win in a massive Raffle).
Saturday 18 October and Sunday 19 October
11am to 4pm
The Ifield Barn is taking part in a national event for the Heritage, alongside many other groups and institutions. The Big Draw is a celebration of drawing which involves hundred of inclusive, participatory drawing events. These are being held in October in museums, galleries, and heritage and community sites, libraries and of course, theatres throughout Britain. The aims are to increase the national interest in drawing, as it has shown that if drawing is enjoyed by many in a community, it has a beneficial effect on the whole area. The Big Draw events attract a new audience to museums, art galleries and theatres. It creates an enjoyable focus for school or hall, bringing different generations or audiences together.
We shall be working with Crawley Arts Society and Crawley Museum Society within the Barn theatre, both inside and out, making use of a marquee kindly loaned and erected by the Borough Council.
Saturday is open for all Barn Members to join in a work-shop on Theatre design, both stage set and costumes. The day will be led by a professional set designer
Sunday is an open house, when the public is welcome to join in and draw on the books with pencils we will be providing. There will be no restrictions on abilities, age or previous experience. Some advice is available from the arts society and the pictures can have any subject
We only ask for enthusiasm and good behaviour
Please come and join in the activities and make others welcome. We may well make new members and attract audiences.
The Green Room AGM Report
The AGM this year passed quite painlessly, even without the guiding hand of our Treasurer, and business was completed successfully.
The Committee lost four of its members this year, John and Margaret Stone and Leonard Doolan, who are moving to obscure outposts of the Realm. We thank them all for their support and contributions over the years towards the smooth running of the Barn and the Green Room and we wish them joy and happiness in the next phrase of their lives. And of course, Eric Howker, who sadly passed away.
Surprisingly we had four applicants to fill the vacated seats. The Green Room welcomes Anne Allison, Brenda Burgess, Bob Ellis and Peter Stewart, who are bristling with new ideas and enthusiasm.
We hope you will come and support our future events.
We are sorry to announce that Vera (Wakefield) Marks died on 1 July. She worked very hard for the Barn until moving away.
Sunday lunches
We are always looking for volunteers to help with lunches in many different ways. If you are able to clear tables, wash and iron the tablecloths, act as a kitchen manager to check cleanliness and replenish stocks of cleaning materials etc., or you would like to help cook a lunch, we would love to hear from you. You would only be asked to help occasionally to spread the load amongst more of our members.
We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at the lunches.
The bar at the Barn is staffed by volunteers and more people are needed to help with this
The bar is open Friday evenings and Sunday lunchtimes as well as on performance nights.
If you feel you would like to help behind the bar please contact Vicky Mills on 01293 536600
Full training will be given.
St. Margaret’s Church and Ifield Barn Theatre
Jointly present a
HOG ROAST
To be held on the grounds of the theatre
On Sunday 14 September starting at 7 pm
Tickets are £10 for adults and £5 for 12 year olds and younger
The bar will be open but you can bring your own drink. Plastic glasses will be provided. Please use them.
Tickets available from St Margaret’s Wardens or behind the bar at the theatre
KINDERTRANSPORT
by Diane Samuels
1st - 4th October 2008
Eva, aged 9, is a German Jewish child who was sent with 10,000 other Jewish children to England in 1938 to protect her from Nazi persecution. The play is intrinsically intertwined with past and present and shows how her experience reflects on her future as it did with many such children. It is a very moving play and shows the sacrifice a Mother will make to save her child and the child’s need to stay with her Mother.
Please come and support a talented and hard working cast and enjoy a theatrical experience and a slice of history.
JOHN MILLER AND SYLVIA TEMPLE
DIRECTORS
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