It is with regret that I have to cancel the May Production of Blast From The Past due to casting difficulties. This is a great pity as this was an exceptionally well written new piece of drama.
I would like to thank everybody who worked tirelessly and assisted in trying to bring this production about.
Ellie Hopkins, Artistic Director, Theatre West Four
Directed by Tony Traxler
Cast includes: Ellie Hopkins, Alice Klapwyk, Nicola Foster, Gerri Heneghan, Mary Ennis,
David Bickerstaff, Juliet Cassidy, Clare Pengelley, Daniel Davis, Richard Scott, Sofia Morin. Lauren Powell, Tony Traxler
THE MEMORY OF WATER by Shelagh Stephenson
At Questors Studio Theater, Mattock Lane, Ealing w5 5BQ November 10 – 14, 2015 at 7.30 pm and Saturday matinee at 2.30 pm
Box Office: 020 8567 5184 0r http://www.questors.org.uk
Both The Chiswick Community Website and The Chiswick Calendar Website have listed our next production at Questors Studio theatre on May 5th to 9th:
A new production of Oscar Wilde’s play
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At the beginning of May 2015, Chiswick theatre company Theatre West Four will be staging Wilde’s classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest at Questors Studio Theatre.
Stuffed full of memorable quotes and witticisms, this late Victorian satire promises to be as sharp as ever, as Wilde teases the conventions and foibles of polite society, trivialising traditional institutions such as marriage and pedigree and spinning a story of farcical proportions.
For the past fifty years, Theatre West Four has been staging amateur productions in West London. Members come from all over London to participate in readings, workshops,
rehearsals and productions. The group welcomes enthusiasts interested in performing, directing, producing, stage management and all aspects of theatre production.
Tickets can be purchased on the Questors web site. You can also telephone the box office at020 8567 5184.
And The Chiswick Calendar lists us:
A thriving local society – Theatre West Four
Theatre West Four is an amateur dramatic society which has been performing in Chiswick for more than fifty years. Over that long period the society has seen romances blossom and professional careers started in the theatre and media. Currently rehearsing for their first production of 2015, Oscar’s Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest, (5 – 9 May, at the Questors Studio Theatre in Ealing) they talked to The Chiswick Calendar and shared their memories of fifty years of strutting their stuff in West London (Watch here).
Bridget Osborne Editor, The Chiswick Calendar
The cast for the above play are working hard on our latest production to be performed at Questors Studio Theatre May 5 t0 9 at 7.30 pm (2.30 pm Saturday matinee)
The wonderful cast includes; Andy Farrant (John Worthing),, Ian Howarth (Canon Chasuble), Christine Neyman (Lady Bracknell), Jane Douglas (Gwendoly), Bryony Willman (Miss Prism), Mick Cawson (Lane) and Nell Fairclough (Merryman)
The play is directed by Peter Woods who writes:-
There can be few theatre or cinema goers who are not familiar with Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest if only for Dame Edith Evans exquisite rendering of “A handbag?” – a line which, interestingly, does not appear in all editions of the play.
Familiarity, however, does not necessarily breed contempt and the play has been a favourite with audiences and actors alike since the first production in 1895.
In case there is anyone out there who does not know the plot, the play concerns two young men about town who adopt aliases in order to pursue their social lives unhindered by Society’s possible disapproval. They meet their match in the girls of their romantic choices who also lead fantasy existences, albeit only in the pages of their diaries. A problem arises when both girls reveal that they are engaged to a man called Earnest who does not appear to exist.
All ends happily (“that is what fiction means”) and the way to that end is garlanded in exquisite, witty dialogue which is a joy to deliver and to hear.
“Bottom bewitches beautiful brazen
Titania tackles truly terrible tyrant
Oberon obviously overcomes onerous onslaught
Puck purposely puts potent potion in pupil of
Lysander’s lecherous eyes like lovely ladies
He hasn’t a hope in hell of having Hermia
Dashing Demetrius dotes devotedly on damsel
Mechanical mummers make magnificent melodrama
Just be grateful that Shakespeare wrote the play!”
11th to 15th November 7.30 pm and Saturday matinee at 2.30 pm Questors Studio Theatre, Mattock Lane, Ealing W5 5BQ Admission: £13, conc £10 (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday only) (Tuesday £10 for TW4 and Questors members, £10 all seats Saturday matinee)
Booking now open box office 020 8567 5184 or online
