Not very happy campers in this production by theatre group The XV
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Theatre group The XV have been invited back to the Bedford Park Festival for the 4th consecutive year and after a sell-out run of Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking at The Tabard Theatre last June.
This year theirfestival play will be John Godber’s comedy, Perfect Pitch, running for two weeks at The Tabard Theatre, from the 12 to the 23 June.
"It's supposed to be a relaxing weekend. I've ruptured myself and
lost three stone, and we've only been here twenty minutes."
Ron and Yvonne have gone camping in a caravan bought with Ron's early retirement money. At a cliff's edge, with a view of the sea, they are looking forward to a life of relaxing after stressful careers, to touring in France perhaps, after a trial run in the campsites of England.
But what they imagined would be an uneventful time to themselves is interrupted when Grant, a bull-terrier breeding, middle-aged former miner pitches up next to them with his girlfriend Steph, a girl in her twenties. Their loud arguments, and even louder love-making, breaks the silence Ron and Yvonne had built around themselves, forcing them to accept situations, and home truths, far outside their comfort zone.
Perfect Pitch was first performed in 1998 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, commissioned by, Alan Ayckbourn.
Tickets will be available from the Bedford Park Festival website. or from The Tabard Theatre
The cast includes; Christina Balmer ( Ana-Frid Lyngstad in ABBA: When All is Said and Done ; ITV/Channel 5, and Relatively Speaking, and Shakespeare On Love (Tabard).
David Kitchen : (Greg in EastEnders; Jack in Island;
The Bill ;Jo Brand Show; Sailor in Siren Song (The Almeida).
David Paisley (‘Ben Saunders’ in Holby City; Casualty
(BBC); 'Rory Murdoch' in River City (BBC); 'Ryan' in Tinseltown (BBC/Deep
Indigo) and Tom Edwards in EastEnders (BBC). Recent theatre credits
include the role of Saki in Life According to Saki (Winner of
the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award);
Christie Peto; The Silhouette in the Smoke (ImmerCity), The Community (Stockwell Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wildcard Theatre).
The director, Hazel Collinson, started her theatrical career at aged 3 ½ and toured around Ireland as a child and took her first starring role as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun at just aged 14. During the next few years she played all the lead female musical theatre roles at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin. Coming to London, Hazel sang in the top cabaret venues before taking over the role of Fanny from Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl in the West End.. For the last 25 years, Hazel has directed and taught acting and musical theatre at Arts Educational in Chiswick.
Founded in 2015, The XV is a professional theatre company and aims to bring together actors, writers, directors, producers, designers and all sorts of creatives to explore ideas, read plays and create compelling theatre; reimagining classics and developing new works. Co-Artistic Directors, Christina Balmer; Freya Alderson; James Simmons and Adam Leese, share a commitment to producing quality theatre and bring with them a varied and broad sheet of experience and skills. Christina and Freya will be producing and performing in Perfect Pitch.
The Festival fortnight kicks off on 9 and 10 June with the Green Days fete and Craft Fair opposite Turnham Green tube station - including five-a-side football, live music, funfair, food and drink, children’s corner and an array of stalls.
Read the full Festival programme and book tickets
June 4, 2018
