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General Information Seat Prices Reservation Enquiries Rep Productions Visiting Companies Theatre Links The Repport About the Rep Mailing list Find us! 85th Season 2004-5 86th Season 2005-6 87th Season 2006-7	The Rep programme 2006 - 2007 This season the Rep features plays by Alan Bennett, Brian J. Burton, Martin McDonagh, Herick Ibsen and Agatha Christie.   Tuesday 10th - Saturday 14th October & Tuesday 17th - Saturday 21st October 2006 The Lady in the Van, by Alan Bennett. When a decrepit Bedford van grinds to a halt opposite Alan Bennett’s house in Camden Town, little does the writer suspect that its next parking place will be his own garden, where its evil-smelling occupant is to remain for a further fifteen years. The genuinely eccentric Miss Shepherd is a trained concert pianist, ex-nun and would-be Prime Minister, and is described by the author as “a bigoted, blinkered, cantankerous, devious, unforgiving, self-centred, rank, rude, car-mad cow”. Forced to turn down his music to her complaints, recharge her van’s flat battery and become her reluctant carer, Alan Bennett uses his vivid observations to create a wonderfully funny play. Tuesday 5th - Saturday 9th December & Tuesday 12th - Saturday 16th December 2006 The Murder of Maria Marten or The Red Barn, by Brian J. Burton Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn has passed into legend. The story has all the popular elements of melodrama: the wicked squire; the poor, innocent village maiden, sadly wronged; a gypsy curse; her gypsy lover; her child's death (perhaps by poison?); her upright, respectable father, her mother's mysterious dream by which the murder was discovered. But this tale is more than a legend. Maria Martin was murdered in The Red Barn. Her lover William Corder was arrested for the murder, brought to trial and executed at Bury St Edmunds in August 1828. So much is historical fact, but even before the trial the elements of this sordid country murder were being sensationalized by 'media hype'. As the 19th century progressed new elements were grafted onto the story. Fact and fiction merged into a folk tale which still fascinates today. » More information on The Red Barn Murder The Rep is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Thursday 22nd December 2006 Christmas at The Rep Tues 13th - Sat 17th February & Tues 20th - Sat 24th February 2007 The Beauty Queen of Leenane, by Martin McDonagh Maureen's life is consumed by the demands of living with and caring for her increasingly irascible and infirm mother, at their family home at Leenane in the mountains of Connemara. Behind this mundane facade, Maureen is a woman struggling to contain the bitterness of an unfulfilled life and the resentment of being abandoned to the role of carer by her sisters. At a village dance one evening she meets Pato and glimpses her last chance to escape the loneliness, isolation and frustration of her situation. Tues 17th - Sat 21st April & Tues 24th - Sat 28th April 2007 Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen a new version by Richard Harris. Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts surprises modern audiences with some of the issues that it discusses, including out-of-wedlock children, venereal disease, incest, infidelity, and euthanasia. It is the story of a woman, Mrs. Alving, who is preparing for the opening of an orphanage in memory of her husband, Captain Alving, on the tenth anniversary of his death. The captain was an important and respected man in his community, and Mrs. Alving plans to raise this one great memorial to him so that she will not have to ever again speak of him. She wants to avoid the awful truth: that he was a cheating, immoral philanderer whose public reputation was a sham. Their son Oswald has come home from Paris with the news that he is dying of syphilis, which he contracted in the womb, and planning to marry the family’s maid. He hopes that she can nurse him as his illness progresses, and Mrs. Alving has to tell him that the maid is actually Captain Alving’s illegitimate daughter. The ‘‘ghosts’’ in this play are the taboo topics that cannot be openly discussed. This drama is one of Ibsen’s most powerful works, but also one of his most controversial. Tues 5th - Sat 9th June & Tues 12th - Sat 16th June 2007 The Hollow, by Agatha Christie An unhappy game of romantic 'Follow My Leader' explodes into murder one weekend in 1951 at 'The Hollow', home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell, ten miles south of London. Dr John Cristow is at the centre of the trouble, for at 'The Hollow' are Henrietta, his mistress, Veronica, his ex-mistress, and Gerda, his wife. To further complicate matters, also present is Edward, in love with Henrietta, and Midge, in love with Edward. Veronica ardently desires to marry John Cristow, but although she succeeds in re-opening their affair, he refuses to divorce his wife. The tangled proceedings end in murder. Inspector Colquhoun and Sergeant Penny arrive to unravel the complicated mess... Wed 11th - Sat 14th July 2007 The Young Rep: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night' by Tim Kelly A showcase and celebration for our younger talent.   ------------------------ Rep Production Booking Enquiries The Theatre Box Office is open from the Monday preceding the first week of each Rep production between 5pm and 8pm. » Reservations » Booking Form ---------------------------
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