Our next production
Closer
by Patrick Marber
directed by David Lancaster
Week commencing 27th November, 2008
London in the 1990s. Over a period of years, Dan, Alice, Anna and Larry meet, form relationships, change partners and
experience the cruel inequalities of love. This tough - and funny - play was made into a hugely successful film starring
Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman. It's a grown-up drama of love, lust and all the confusions in between.
Carriageworks main auditorium
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Future productions
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
directed by Martin Key
Week commencing 2nd February, 2009
The Crucible is based on the search for witches in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, but was inspired by the 1950 search
for communists launched by Senator McCarthy in the Department of State. Graves of those accused of witchcraft in
theocratic Salem still exist and Miller’s play includes many of their names. The critical themes of Intolerance,
Hysteria and Reputation mould the storyline in a society where, if anything does not belong to God, it belongs to
the Devil, and dissent is associated with Satanic activity. Hints of witchcraft abound, but the protagonist, John Proctor,
desires to preserve his reputation rather than testify against Abigail, with whom he has committed adultery.
Eventually Proctor redeems himself and makes an heroic choice to go to the gallows with integrity rather than sign
a false confession to witchcraft.
Carriageworks main auditorium
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The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
designed and directed by
Malcolm Brown
Week commencing 4th May, 2009
The hilarious plot of The Comedy of Errors involves two pairs of identical twins, family separation, mistaken identities,
arrests, imprisonment, a jealous wife, a courtesan, a conjurer, a nun and a host of other eccentric characters whose
farcical confusions fill a day which they are never likely to forget.
Carriageworks main auditorium
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The House of Bernarda Alba
by Federico Garica Lorca
directed by Amy Dutton
June, 2009
After the death of her second husband, Bernarda Alba, an unpleasant and dominating woman, imposes a period of
mourning on her household that is to last eight years, as has been traditional in her family. Bernarda has five
daughters, aged between 20 and 39, whom she has shielded and controlled to an excessive degree and prohibited from
any form of relationship. The mourning period further isolates the daughters, and tension mounts within the household.
Carriageworks main auditorium
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