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• Feb 20th 2007 to Feb 24th 2007

Event Details

• Group: (ACT) Ariel Company Theatre

Address

• Address:
  
  The Hawth Theatre (Studio), Hawth Avenue, Crawley, West Sussex
• Location: South East

Contact Details

• Contact: 01444 250407 or contactus [at] arielct [dot] co [dot] uk

Extra Information

• Notes: Gwenda is an ex-agoraphobic who decided to “devote herself to the poor and ignorant” and leads a self help group of three agoraphobics – Margaret, Bell-Bell and Katrina. For a variety of reasons they are confined to their homes: Margaret was raped at fourteen and hasn’t left the house for fifteen years, Bell-Bell is a hygiene obsessed housewife who fights germs in the house all day, Katrina was a cabaret singer who was pelted with plastic pineapples during a big finale and hasn’t left the house for years. She sees her salvation in listening to Barry Manilow records. Enlisting the support of Fliss, a trainee social worker, Gwenda forces the three to help at a bazaar in the local hall. As they sort through the rummage, their individual fears erupt, but calm is restored by the ever sensible Fliss who, with the others’ help, manages to keep them all together until the bazaar is over. As they leave the hall it is apparent that their agoraphobia is not cured but they have made the effort.
• Webpage: http://www.arielct.co.uk