Audition –

Black Comedy by Peter Schaffer and Heavy by Jon Thrower

Sunday 29th June 6.30pm at the Rondo and Thursday 3 July at 7.30pm at Bath Drama Hut

(for performances 26th to 29th November 2008)

ALL WELCOME!

Black Comedy, By Peter Shaffer.

It's 1965 and at last, Brindsley Miller has got a grip on his chaotic existence: If all goes well, this very night will put an end to his single, carefree, poor-artist-style life. A fabulously wealthy, German, art collector, is coming to buy some of his works. Deeply impressed, the father of his fiancée Carol, Colonel Melkett, will give consent to their marriage, and everybody will live happily ever after. If. One simple fuse is all it takes to turn Brindsley's "night-of-his-life" into an hilarious roller-coaster nightmare. Witness the devastating power of Murphy's Law in action as the lights go out and the artist's past returns with a vengeance. High-speed farce with a twist that will be sure to delight...

Heavy, By Jon Thrower.

New writing from Bath based playwright Jon Thrower. Heavy is a one act comedy set towards the end of the reign of George III. The play begins with the opening of the 1823 autumn festival, a farcical ceremony in which Sir Charles Padgett, Master of the King's weights and measures attempts to weigh the first fallen apples from a local orchard. However, the scales aren't behaving and without the irrefutable logic of the British Imperial System to fall back on, things start to unravel fast...Cue a heavyweight battle between two of the Kingdoms leading lights in the field of measurements. Love, intrigue and chaos ensue, and you can be sure that someone will put their standard foot in it somewhere before the Ceremony of Balance.