Actonians Drama Group

Synopsis

The action takes place in the poorly maintained dressing room of the local Village Hall in Cropleigh, a small village situated somewhere in middle England. It is the first night of an amateur production by the local drama group, “Cropleigh Rep”. Their production, “Love on Trial” has been written and directed by club member Maurice Fanshaw who is recognised as being dedicated to his art, but also viewed as a figure of fun by some in the group. “Love on Trial”, is a light comedy set in a seaside hotel in the mid 1940’s where businessman, Bosworth Felling, has taken his secretary Fanny for an illicit weekend affair.

The time is around the late 1990’s.

Synopsis

We were asked by Acton Aid to perform something for this event, so this short play has been written especially for this occasion.

The play is inspired by the situations and characters in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. In the play Alice is missing and the tea party cannot start until she is found, you will meet familiar characters from the book who have joined in the search.

Synopsis

This Comedy of Manners starts in a 1920s postwar rainy February in London where two women see an advert for a villa to rent in southern Italy for the month of April. 

They club together with two other women for a woman only holiday.

We follow them into a glorious Italian spring - and so do three men!

'Enchanted April’ is adapted from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, a remarkable woman often known as ‘Elizabeth in her German Garden’.

Synopsis

A love story depicting the emotional challenges & eventual loss of a family touched by dementia.