FYI Hurst Festival Players - specially commissioned play on The Armistice 1918
Mid Sussex Drama Liaison
Sending on to MSDL on behalf of Hurst Festival
Please contact the director if interested
From: Margaret Carey [mailto:Marg...@112a.co.uk]
Sent: 10 April 2018 15:35
To: lia...@cdsweb.co.uk
Subject: Hurst Festival - specially commissioned play on The Armistice
1918
To Mid Sussex Drama Liaison,
A chance to be part of history
I have sent this also to Cuckfield Dramatic Society and see that you have a similar email address, but maybe this is a wider group which reaches a different set of amateur actors, so I am sending it to this address too!
2018 is the centenary of the signing of the armistice ending the first world war. The details of this were decided at a meeting of the War Cabinet at Danny Park, in Hurstpierpoint in October 1918.
Hurst Festival have commissioned a play by Kevin Carey to mark this momentous event and has formed Hurst Festival Players to perform the world premiere at The Players Theatre in Hurstpierpoint.
The cast consists of four females (youngest in her late teens, oldest 45-50) and 17 men of various ages, these include a young soldier, an airman and a sailor as well as the Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Andrew Bonar Law, Arthur Balfour and other members of the War Cabinet.
The play will be on for four performances during the Hurst Festival, at 8pm September 24th, 26th and 28th, with a matinée at 2.30pm on Sunday 30th.
This is an amateur production, directed by Bob Sampson, and the auditions will be held in early June (dates to be confirmed), actors interested in being part of this exciting project are invited to contact the director at samps...@gmail.com, telephone 01273 833397.
We do hope that you will be interested in this very exciting project.
Margaret
Margaret Carey
Hurst Festival
T: 01273 835113
M: 07899 793349
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