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Each year we perform three to four plays, musicals
and readings. Past productions include Our Town by Thornton Wilder, The
Shadow Box by Michael Christofer, Table Manners by Alan Ayckbourn, Black
Comedy and White Liars by Peter Shaffer, Chekhov Shorts, Beckett Shorts, and Shakespeare’s
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour Lost, and Much Ado About
Nothing. From time to time we put on plays written or devised
by our own members and have been pleased to provide opportunities to new
writers, giving them on many occasions the first stage performance of their
work. We also put together smaller cabaret-style evenings
of one-act plays, and various seasonal variety shows. In these comedy and
song are the main ingredients (An Edwardian Evening, Cabaret…). Our musical talent has been on show in Lullaby of
Broadway, a selection of hits from Broadway musicals, or My Favourite Things,
a tribute to Richard Rodgers, and Swell Party, an evening dedicated to Cole
Porter and Noel Coward. We have also done public readings, such as Under Milk
Wood by Dylan Thomas, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, or Sunday Morning at
the Centre of the World by Louis de Berníeres. We also do versions of these shows, or create
special ones, for language students, at schools such as the Escuelas Oficiales
de Idiomas or faculties of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Every December we put on a Christmas show, our most
important production of the year. It is usually a traditional British
Christmas Pantomime, based on a well-known fairy-tale, with a strong element
of song, dance and topical humour. In the last few years we have had
audiences of around 2,000 for the five performances. Recent pantos have been Ali
Baba, Merlin, or Puss in Boots. From Shakespeare to Panto, Beckett to Cabaret –
Madrid Players do it all! |
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