Edward Alderton Theatre

This Season: 2015-2016

23-30 July 2016
Lend Me a Tenor (Non-Musical Version)
By Ken Ludwig
Directed by Nick Hewitt

World-renowned tenor Tito Merelli has signed on to play Otello at a Cleveland operacompany in the fall of 1934. He arrives late and, through a set of crazy circumstances, passes outafter mixing wine with a huge dose of tranquilizers. Believing that the divo is dead, the excitableopera manager taps his hapless assistant, an aspiring singer named Max, to suit up as the Moorand replace Merelli. Meanwhile, the tenor’s jealous wife, his ambitious female co-star, Max’s younggirlfriend and the flirtatious head of the opera guild are on the scene fighting—sometimes literally—for the star’s attention...

Cast: Darren Cullen (Max), Charlotte Jacobs (Maggie Saunders), Kevin Coward (Tito Merelli), Van Corbould (Maria Merelli), Linda Gay (Diana), Viv Stapleton (Julia) and Seb White (Bellhop), Nicholas Hewitt (Henry Saunders)

Director: Nicholas Hewitt,
Stage Manager & Co-Director: Laura Cakebread
Lighting: John Gardner
Sound: Mick Taylor
Prompt: Louise Ody
Tito Merelli: Kevin Coward

14-21 May 2016
Uncle Vanya
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Richard Self
This production has now finished

13-20 February 2015
The Golden Age of Radio Comedy
Produced by Sarah O'Hanlon and Mark Campbell
This production has now finished

12-19 December 2015
A Different Way Home
By Jimmie Chinn
Directed by Roz Betts
This production has now finished

24-31 October 2015
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
By Alan Ball
Directed by Jennifer Walker
This production has now finished