Welcome to our spring plays 2024.
five plays for Spring 2024
Following our successful productions of three radio plays in Summer 2023, Arts Dream Selsey is delighted to team up once again with award winning playwright Gillian Plowman to bring five more radio plays to the stage for Selsey. With themes of love, loss and in some cases downright criminality, Gillian brings her usual light humorous touch to these pieces to delight her audiences. Eight of our favourite actors, and a new actor Cai bring these plays to life over six dates, with original music written and performed by Sylvia Rota.
Our lovely actors!
Welcome to Cai one of new actors.
Think he will have a great time with the rest of the team and bring all his acting and singing skills to his different roles
Think he will have a great time with the rest of the team and bring all his acting and singing skills to his different roles
The Party –
Two strangers find themselves thrown together during a brutally interrupted journey. Irritation turns to understanding as they begin to share their hopes and dreams and confessions of past failures, in an effort to pass the time and forget their injuries until rescue arrives. Will this unlikely meeting blossom into something more or will fate intervene to end it before it’s begun?
Two Summers
Two love stories, set forty years apart. In the tropical heat of Singapore in 1932, a Colonel’s wife dares to cross boundaries and engage with a young sergeant. Feelings bubble beneath the surface until duty steps in to put an end to this reckless relationship. Forty years later an older couple relive the past as they await the news they dread.
Crooked Wood
Miss Barwick lives in a very old house on very expensive land, surrounded by many very old and very valuable items. Luckily for the unscrupulous property developers Miss Barwick is a dear old thing, who seems to be losing her marbles. What could be simpler than getting Miss Barwick out of her house so the deal can go through and Golden Future developments can add to their fortune? In this black comedy Miss Barwick has one or two tricks of her own.
The Window Cleaner
When Jill, a window cleaner, encounters a young man in the apartment she’s working on, she realises immediately he’s up to no good. In an effort to avoid becoming trapped in the apartment, Jill engages him in conversation and persuades him to tell her about the road that has led to his criminal career. Jill has a few secrets of her own to share, but there is one more surprise for both of them that might end up getting them both in big, big trouble.
The Allotment
Four friends work together on an allotment on a lovely spring day, they share carrots and hats and a mutual dislike for Tuesdays. Marcie and Norah make plans to attend Lara’s Shakespearian performance with their respective families while they wait for Bella to return from her trip to pick up a new rotavator. Bella returns without the rotavator but with disturbing news of the new man, Mr Barnes, who seems determined to tease the unpalatable truth out of them. Marcie, Norah and Lara will not be so easily taken in, or will they?
The Party –
Two strangers find themselves thrown together during a brutally interrupted journey. Irritation turns to understanding as they begin to share their hopes and dreams and confessions of past failures, in an effort to pass the time and forget their injuries until rescue arrives. Will this unlikely meeting blossom into something more or will fate intervene to end it before it’s begun?
Two Summers
Two love stories, set forty years apart. In the tropical heat of Singapore in 1932, a Colonel’s wife dares to cross boundaries and engage with a young sergeant. Feelings bubble beneath the surface until duty steps in to put an end to this reckless relationship. Forty years later an older couple relive the past as they await the news they dread.
Crooked Wood
Miss Barwick lives in a very old house on very expensive land, surrounded by many very old and very valuable items. Luckily for the unscrupulous property developers Miss Barwick is a dear old thing, who seems to be losing her marbles. What could be simpler than getting Miss Barwick out of her house so the deal can go through and Golden Future developments can add to their fortune? In this black comedy Miss Barwick has one or two tricks of her own.
The Window Cleaner
When Jill, a window cleaner, encounters a young man in the apartment she’s working on, she realises immediately he’s up to no good. In an effort to avoid becoming trapped in the apartment, Jill engages him in conversation and persuades him to tell her about the road that has led to his criminal career. Jill has a few secrets of her own to share, but there is one more surprise for both of them that might end up getting them both in big, big trouble.
The Allotment
Four friends work together on an allotment on a lovely spring day, they share carrots and hats and a mutual dislike for Tuesdays. Marcie and Norah make plans to attend Lara’s Shakespearian performance with their respective families while they wait for Bella to return from her trip to pick up a new rotavator. Bella returns without the rotavator but with disturbing news of the new man, Mr Barnes, who seems determined to tease the unpalatable truth out of them. Marcie, Norah and Lara will not be so easily taken in, or will they?
hope this has wetted your appetite.
Of course not forgetting our very own Sylvia Rota, who will be composing original Music for all of the plays and entertaining us with pre and after show Music.