Autumn Tour Dates:
24th September – 7.30pm – The Playhouse, Weston-Super-Mare
14th October – 7.30pm – The Backwell Theatre, Backwell
24th October – 2.30pm – The Royal Bath Hotel – (Bournemouth Literary Festival)
6th November – 7.30pm – The Mowlam Theatre, Swanage
2011 Dates Coming Soon…..
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She Opened the Door:
The Wife, The Mother, The Other Woman and The Ruined Maid; a powder keg ready to blow in the world of Thomas Hardy!
AsOne Theatre’s latest production is a new play ‘She Opened the Door’ by our commissioned playwright Peter J Cooper. She Opened the Door is a fresh look at Thomas Hardy’s first wife Emma and her relationship with the literary genius; one of Dorset’s favourite sons. It takes place early autumn, in the garden of their home at Max Gate, Dorchester. Hardy’s possessive mother Jemima comes to visit for a first and only time and Mrs Florence Henniker who has written a novel with Hardy arrives on the new fangled bicycle, add a feisty (ruined) house maid, some skeletons and a ghost or two to Emma’s already tangled nerves and you have a powder keg ready to blow!
With music and songs by renowned composer Roderick Skeaping, and design by the talented Annette Sumption – AsOne promises an evening of quality and surprise; a clever combination of exciting – performance, writing, costume design, music and projected-image.
Be prepared to be touched, laugh and learn something new. |