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• Nov 12th 2009 5:30 pm to Nov 14th 2009 5:30 pm

Fifty Glorious Years!

Two thousand and nine sees the Golden Jubilee of Petersfield’s Lion and Unicorn Players.  This follows hard on the heels of the Group’s one-hundredth production, the American Classic “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder, a production that has just won a National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA) Accolade of Excellence Award for the year 2008-2009.

For the Golden Jubilee production, the Players have chosen “On the Razzle”, a brilliant farce by Tom Stoppard.  How to describe “On the Razzle”?  Two hours of slapstick shenanigans, mistaken identities, misdirected orders, malapropisms, double entendres, and romance will do for a start.  There is a garrulous grocer, a Machiavellian manservant, a pantomime horse, a randy coachman, a French maid, and costumes from the Vienna of the 1900s.  The precise and intricate machinery of plot and sub-plot whirrs at full speed deploying all the elements of a classic farce and, above all, it is one long laugh.

This production will be performed in the Festival Hall in Petersfield on the 12^th, 13^th, and 14^th November 2009.  Evening performances commence at 19.30 and there will be a matinee performance on Saturday 14^th November commencing at 14.30.  Tickets: £9 (concessions £8, matinee all £6).

Tickets are available from 01730 821491 or lion [dot] unicorn [at] waitrose [dot] com until 12^th October when they will be available from our box office at One Tree Books, Lavant Street, Petersfield.

Vivienne Coleshill

01730 821491