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21st – 23rd September Summerheath Hall

Habeas Corpus is a bawdy comedy, written by Alan Bennett, is set in Brighton where the lust and longing of the permissive society has taken hold of the seemingly respectable Wicksteed family. With a collection of larger-than-life characters – including henpecked husband, frustrated wife, flat-chested spinster, lecherous curate and ubiquitous char – this rollicking farce is as saucy as a seaside postcard.

Directed by Sam Elsby and presented by special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd as part of the Hailsham Arts Festival.

Tickets £9 / 7.50, Saturday Meall Night £18 / £16

Doors open 7pm / 2pm, Licensed bar, interval refreshments and cake available.
Limited tickets may be available on the door please book to avoid dispapointment.

To book your tickets please call the Pavilion Box office on 01323 841414  Book online here

Script readings – THIS WEEK

Summerheath Hall Thursday 1st June 7.30pm

 The Cemetery Club (1987) by Ivan Menchell
3 New York widows wise-crack their way through a plot that starts with their lives revolving around a regular pilgrimage to their husbands’ graves. This supportive but unfulfilling existence is ruptured when one looks as though she is going to start an affair. Many lines are laugh-out-loud and it’s a very easy read as the plot is so involving. American accents required.

Private Lives (1930) (Revived 1944) Noel Coward   
Probably Coward’s best play. It’s a 30’s comedy of manners/situation where a divorced couple find themselves in the same French hotel on their respective new honeymoon nights. The second half then switches to a Paris flat. With plenty of short snappy dialogue, the play zips along but there is an edge of cynicism to it as well. The script has very detailed stage directions which are helpful. The main parts are the two couples but there is a French maid character as well.

Habeas Corpus (1973)  Alan Bennett          

An off-the-wall absurdist comedy, with lots of lines out to the audience.  It is set in a Hove GP surgery waiting room but the stage is really a cross between this and a game show.

FETE WORSE THAN DEATH

 Confusions is a set of five interlinked plays By Alan Ayckbourn, Presented by Hailsham Theatres at Hailsham Pavilion from 18^th – 20^th May.  A mother unable to escape baby talk. An unsuccessful seduction attempt. A fraught dinner encounter. A distavorous summer fete and characters on park benches.  On the surface the situations would appear inconsequential.  But behind the humour is loneliness the desire for companionship and the need to be accepted.

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Hailsham Theatres present Alan Ayckbourn’s classic comedy Confusions from May 18-20.

Source: Classy Confusions – Eastbourne Herald

Hailsham Theatres present Alan Ayckbourn’s classic comedy Confusions from May 18-20.

Five short plays deal with a range of human emotions and dilemmas, and each one of them connects to the next through one of its characters until the final one is reached when four people sit alone in conversation on park benches.

From high farce to poignant observation; the laughs, however dark, keep coming. A brilliant piece of Ayckbourn that will appeal to all. To book call 01323 841414 or visit www.pavilionhailsham.co.uk.