A Garden Fete

Archive Listings for A Garden Fete

Intimate Exchanges - T01566007882 Company Stephen Joseph Theatre Company. Director Tim Luscombe. Director Alan Ayckbourn. Performer Bill Champion. Performer Claudia Elmhirst.
12 Apr 07 to 2 May 07	Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L01130047050
4 Aug 06 to 19 Sep 06	Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L0165290645
15 Jun 06 to 8 Jul 06	Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough :: V949 listing details L1368887977
Intimate Exchanges - T901727576 Producer Mill at Sonning. Director David Taylor. Design Julie Godfrey. Lighting Janet A Cantrill. Costume Jane Kidd. Performer Robert Fitch. Performer Elizabeth Healey.
18 Oct 05 to 26 Nov 05	The Mill, Sonning :: V739 listing details L0214634477
T1376698494 (OCTYEOVIL05) Producer Bruce James Productions Ltd.
14 Sep 05 to 17 Sep 05	The Playhouse, Weston-Super-Mare :: V865 listing details L0260073388
30 Aug 05 to 3 Sep 05	Middlesbrough Theatre, Middlesbrough :: V0895700786 listing details L1418895162
5 Jul 05 to 9 Jul 05	Theatre Royal, Winchester :: V782 listing details L701218369
8 Jun 05 to 11 Jun 05	Octagon Theatre, Yeovil :: V919 listing details L0166448869

Details

Play :: Sylvie is a round-shouldered and slatternly village girl who helps prim-and-proper Celia, the headmaster's wife, around the house. Devoid of self-esteem, poor Sylvie is taken advantage of by her chauvinist gardener boyfriend, Lionel, who constantly ticks her off for dressing like a 'lollipop on legs' and tells her she must 'buck up her ideas' if she wants to keep up with him. Taking Lionel at his word, Sylvie sets about bettering herself. With the help of Toby the schoolmaster and Celia, she takes lessons in deportment and reading, to get her man. But doors open for Sylvie when she discovers she has a brain! Much to Lionel's despair! What's happened t his little lollipop? As for Sylvie, should she embrace her new found life? Or reject it and throw in her lot with that virile handyman and become a conventional village wife and mum? A Garden Fete is one of a series of plays about a group of suburbanites written under the heading, Intimate Exchanges.

Author

Alan Ayckbourn