Dreams from a Summer House
October 11 – 26, 2013
Dreams from a Summer House
This is a musical play with Words/Script by Alan Ayckbourn and Music by John Pattinson.
Grayson, a successful business man, and his formidable wife, Chrissie, are hosting a garden party at their Leatherhead home. Robert, an artist formerly married to their eldest daughter Amanda, has borrowed the garden summer house to work on illustrations of “Beauty and the Beast” for a children’s book, but Robert is not so much painting as drinking and berating womankind in general, and Amanda in particular. So, it’s an uphill struggle for Amanda’s young sister, Mel, who nurtures an unrequited love for Robert. As the summer evening progresses and Robert becomes even more cynical, the subject of his painting, Belle, suddenly materialises before him, closely followed by an irate Amanda, her cowering husband Sinclair and Baldemar, a beast, come in search of Belle.
Matters are further complicated by the fact that Belle and Baldemar can only communicate in song. When Baldemar kidnaps Amanda and takes her back to his grim, fairytale castle he discovers he has met his match…
| Cast: | |
| Robert | Ben Wilson-Hill |
| Amanda | Helen Watkins |
| Sinclair | Agustin Lamas |
| Chrissie | Lenore Parodi |
| Grayson | Brendon Dart |
| Mel | Kate Gandy |
| Belle | Madeleine Dart |
| Baldemar | Ben Freeman |
| Production Team: | |
| Director | Ben Wilson-Hill |
| Musical Director | Nick Gilbert |
| Lighting Manager/Design | John Nawotka |
| Set Design | Eddie Bruce : Agustin Lamas |
| Set Construction | Eddie Bruce : Ben Wilson-Hill : Agustin Lamas : Cast Members |
| Scenic Artists | Cast and Friends of DMS |
| Costumes | Judy Clarke : Julie Scargill |
| Properties | Cast Members |
| Front of House | Friends of DMS |
| Marketing | Julie Bruce : Andrew McLean |
| Publicity | Julie Bruce and DMS Committee |
| Photography | David Schofield : Barry Clarke : Tim Scargill |