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March and April Events at Oundle’s Stahl Theatre

A2 Theatre Studies Practical Exam Pieces:
Wednesday 13th March 7.45 pm Tickets £3.00

Join the Upper Sixth Form Theatre Studies pupils from Oundle School for their final assessed performance. As the culminating part of their course, these performers and technicians will present a new pieceof theatre of their own devising that draws on their understanding and appreciation of style, genre and theatre practice. Such pieces can prove exciting, challenging and innovative and form an evening that is part examination and part celebration.

Backgammon for Beginners
So & So Circus Theatre
Monday 18th March 7.45pm Tickets £9.50

November 1976. A military jet arrives in London and a bemused looking Iranian man in flares steps on to the tarmac. He holds a single suitcase and blinks in this new land. Unknown to airport officials, he has smuggled in the last of his opium supply, and brings with him a complicated past from a culture which doesn’t slot very neatly into this one. Over the next few years his attempts to comprehend the differences between his past and his present will lead to jumping out of hotel windows, introducing backgammon to London bars, facing the terror of the National Front and stopping trains with his bare hands. It will also lead to broken hearts, secret loves and multiple children. Fusing drama, breathtaking acrobatics, live music and puppetry, So & So Circus tell the true story of this extraordinary man and his life lived without a safety net.

Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard
Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd April 7.45pm Tickets £5

Two critics sit down in a theatre to watch a ludicrous setup of a country house murder mystery, in the style of a whodunit. By chance, they become involved in the very play they are watching causing a series of unlikely events that parallel the onstage murder mystery and ultimately lead to a hilariously shocking ending.

Stoppard’s witty parody of a stereotypical parlour mystery draws on his experiences
as a Bristol theatre critic and his sharp presentation of the obsessive reviewers is both a humorous and ironic caricature of life in the theatre. This satirical one act play is delivered and performed by the boys of Sidney House and directed by Bertie Wnek.

Snap. Catch. Slam.
Aslan Productions Written by Emma Jowett and directed by Ben Caplan.
Thursday 25th April 7.45pm Tickets £9.50

A gripping piece of new writing based on three real-life stories, Snap.Catch.Slam.
is the debut solo play of Emma Jowett, co-writer of highly-acclaimed Analogue shows, Beachy Head and Mile End. This is a raw, emotionally-charged, piece of intimate storytelling that focuses on three devastating moments that change the characters’ lives forever. Snap is inspired by the true story of a teacher who physically attacked a troublesome pupil in 2010. Catch is inspired by a 2008 newspaper image showing a baby being dropped from the third storey of a burning apartment. In Slam, Karen’s head injury
leaves her with a memory that wipes itself clean every few minutes. The three narratives interweave in an electrifying portrayal of the fragility of human life.

The show premiered to excellent reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011.

The Stahl Theatre
West Street, Oundle
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www.stahltheatre.co.uk