The Philadelphia Story

The first new community theatre production for 2004!

Philip Barry's witty and sophisticated comedy was written as a vehicle for Katharine Hepburn, and the role that reintroduced her as a Box Office sensation to filmgoers worldwide.

Filmed in 1940 with Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant, and the inpsiration for the film "High Society"

In the authors own words:
"Tracy Lord, of the Philadelphia Lords, has married C.K. Dexter Haven and divorced him when he, resenting her chilling attitude toward the comforting virtues of domesticity, takes to liquor. A little while later she has taken up with a handsome snob of the mines named Kittredge and is about to marry him. One of the calender paper social gossip weeklies sends a reporter and a camera woman to cover the wedding. They are injected into the house by Tracy's brother, who hopes to divert their attention from Father Lord's affair with a Broadway actress. Tracy, already a little shaken in her urge for Kittredge, finds herself suddenly bowled over by Connor, the fascinating reporter. At the end of a pre-wedding party, at which the champagne flows like ginger ale, she and Connor go for a dip in the pool. Tracy always had been an uncertain champagne drinker. The last time she drunk a lot of it she went out on the roof to salute the moon. Now the wedding is threatened. Kittredge takes his frock coat and goes home."

Directed by Peter "Pear" Carr
(Previous work includes "Cosi" and "Bang You're Dead!" at Roleystone)

Featuring a large cast of excellent actors including:
Bree Hartley ("Calamity Jane", "Working")
Simon Gobby ("Working", "Aladdin")
Scott McLeod ("As You Like It", "Me & My Girl")
Three quarters of the very talented Presbury family: Paul, Jackie and Callum (Alex is backstage...)
Jayma Martin ("Regards to Broadway II", "A Midsummer Night's Dream")

As well as some people making their "Not-High-School" Acting Debuts...