We are always keen to welcome new members, both on- and off-stage, and we try to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to get involved straight away. If you are interested in contributing to the shows below then please email membership@sheppertonplayers.org.uk or click here . Auditions for on-stage parts usually take place the week after the previous production.
Here are the upcoming performances to be performed in 2010
Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Roland Fahey
Wed 6th, Thu 7th, Fri 8th, Sat 9th October 2010
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Written in 1881, Ghosts is a deliberately-shocking piece by Ibsen, addressing taboo topics such as blasphemy, venereal disease, illegitimacy, incest and euthanasia.
He is making a point that unpleasant things can happen to good people, and that attempting to follow a religious path through life does not necessarily shield us from its darker and more unseemly aspects.
Helen Alving is planning to donate some of her well-respected but philandering late husband’s legacy to a local orphanage. Her son Osvald is discovered to have syphilis, and has fallen in love with the maid, the illegitimate daughter of his late father and thus his half-sister. The local pastor is a blinkered and bullying religious fundamentalist.
The “Ghosts” of this play – the taboo topics which are ever-present but cannot be openly discussed - are shocking and hidden even in the 21st century. As you can imagine, at the time of writing in the 19th century they were scandalous and abhorrent. Ibsen’s pioneering work carries social and revolutionary significance.
“When you forced me under the yoke you called Duty and Obligation - when you praised as right and proper what my whole soul rebelled against as something loathsome - It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I only wished to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing ravelled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.... It was a crime against us both.”
The Visitor
Directed by Marion Millinger
Shepperton Players are also submitting an entry to the Spelthorne drama festival at the Riverside Arts Centre 17th-23rd October.
2011 calendar coming soon
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