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Preview by Paul Nelson
TEG Productions are presenting a major tour of The Old Ladies
this autumn, opening at the Key Theatre in Peterborough
on Tuesday, September 23.
TEG's recent touring productions include the highly acclaimed
Our Song, which starred
Peter Bowles, and Eric Chappel's new comedy, Snakes
and Ladders.
Starring Sian Phillips, Angela Thorne and Rosemary Leach, The
Old Ladies will be directed by Frith Banbury.
Actor and dramatic writer and adaptor Rodney Ackland, is responsible
for at least 30 plays and adaptations.
The Old Ladies is a gripping psychological thriller set
in the 1920s, full of twists and turns and guaranteed to keep
audiences on the edge of their seats right up to the explosive
and unexpected finale.
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Lucy and May have rooms in an old house and, with fond memories,
simple pleasures and buried hopes, they happily help each other
through their impoverished days. But in the upstairs rooms the
dark, brooding presence of Agatha plans to shatter their friendship.
Little by little, she begins a journey of terror as she manipulates,
ridicules and undermines the careful fabric of Lucy and May's
lives.
The Old Ladies will be directed by Rodney Ackland's life-long
collaborator, Frith Banbury.
At 91, Frith Banbury is Britain's oldest consistently working
director with one of the longest professional pedigrees in the
theatre.
Uniting the talents of three great actresses, major stage and
Hollywood star Sian Phillips, Angela Thorne and Rosemary Leach,
this nail-biting thriller shivers with increasing intensity as
tensions build to a menacing climax.
Expect the unexpected!
The tour will be playing at Richmond Theatre, week commencing
October 6.
The Old Ladies by Rodney Ackland, from the novel by Hugh Walpole.
Directed by Frith Banbury, with Sian Phillips, Angela Thorne and
Rosemary Leach. National Tour presented by TEG Productions calling
at Richmond Theatre, The Little Green, Richmond, October 6 to
October 11. Tickets 020 8940 0088
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