A Penny For a Song

Archive Listings for A Penny For a Song

T992482068 (MERROW01) Company Merrow Dramatic Society.
31 Oct 01 to 3 Nov 01	Electric Theatre, Guildford :: V01732805351 listing details L1037035071
T2011112450 (OXPLAY99) Company Oxford Stage Company. Performer Julian Glover. Performer Brian Protheroe. Performer James Lance. Performer Charles Kay. Performer Jody Watson. Director Paul Miller. Design Tom Piper. Producer Dominic Dromgoole.
21 Sep 99 to 25 Sep 99	Arts Theatre, Cambridge :: V19 listing details L1871704707
14 Sep 99 to 18 Sep 99	Richmond Theatre, Outer London :: V327 listing details L01693882346
2 Sep 99 to 11 Sep 99	The Playhouse, Oxford :: V803 listing details L01678422348

Details

Play :: On a summer's day in 1804, in a Dorset garden, the Bellboys family awaits the Napoleonic invasion. An aristocratic family, whose eccentricity verges on lunacy, they make their own preparations for war. Hallam Matthews, an elegant and reactionary dilettante, has come to stay and into the family's midst walks Edward Sterne, a radical, whose mission is to stop the war. Their debate is galvanised into action when the prospect of a real invasion looms. As danger grows, so does farce, as characters descend down wells and ascend in hot air balloons. A delicate, mystical and visionary play, A Penny for a Song is a classic English comedy. Mixing the plot of Ben Jonson with the characters of Sheridan, the wit of Wilde and the warmth of Goldsmith, the play was first staged in 1951 directed by Peter Brook.

Author

John Whiting