Bookings now open For Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

Bookings are now open for Garrick Theatre's second season, 'A Light Shining In Buckinghamshire' Written by Caryl Churchill and Directed by Rob Whitehead Synopsis For ten years in the middle of the seventeenth century, England was governed by radical extremists. Fuelled by unshakeable religious conviction, soldiers killed the king believing that Christ would come to replace him. Theirs was a war to establish heaven on earth. To those who believed in the established order, it must have seemed that the future was in the hands of the terrorists. Written in 1976, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire speaks directly to our own political moment. A dramatic collage of the most turbulent period of English history, it tells the story of a group of men and women who thought they had glimpsed a spark of unspeakable, transcendent glory. It is impossible not to hear echoes of our own times. Caryl Churchill’s remarkable play is set during England’s Civil War, around the 1647 Putney Debates when an egalitarian state briefly seemed within the grasp of the New Model Army and its radical agitators. Churchill takes a scalpel to the English body politic exposing how, 350 years on, we’ve failed to address fundamental questions of individual freedom. A swirl of characters, in short elliptical scenes depict the state of the nation, and the hierarchy of entitlement that keeps everyone in their place. We see brutal poverty, starvation, abandoned children and men desperate for change. We see women excluded from the New Jerusalem and new bosses the same as the old bosses. Featuring: Rodney van Groningen John Lobb Jessica Hewitson David Kerr Ellen Jurick Mickael Davis Performance Dates: April 13, 14, 15*, 19, 20, 21, 22*, 26, 27 & 28 and May 4 & 5 Curtain up at 8pm, doors open at 7:30pm *Matinees Curtain up at 2pm, doors open at 1:30pm This is a community Theatre Event Tickets availible through Elaine on (08) 9378 1990 or bookings@garricktheatre.asn.au Payment to be made within 10 days by EFT, Money Order or Cheque Tickets: Adult $18, Concession $16, Members/Children $14. http://www.facebook.com/events/360931363940217/ See you at the Theatre!