Four local actors are preparing to appear in a classic drama which is being toured in May by the locally based Open Space Theatre Company, which rehearses in Needham Village Hall.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee - a play adapted for a memorable 1960s film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton - will have eight performances in May at theatres in the Waveney Valley.
The cast include Yves Green, an experienced actress who has lived in Needham for the past 20 years and is a trustee of the theatre company.
Also acting in the play will be Peter Sowerbutts, who lives in Harleston, has a long and distinguished career in the professional theatre and is a former artistic director of the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich.
The play is set on a university campus where a naive young couple, Nick and Honey, find themselves marooned amidst the vicious, humiliating and cynical battlefield of George and Martha's marriage.
Yves and Peter will taking the roles of Martha and George. Nick will be played by Mike Davison, who is director of the Harleston Players youth group.
Honey will be played by Emma Martin who lives in Diss and is marketing manager of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds.
Performance details and box office numbers are:
Friday, May 8 - The Bank Arts Centre, Eye, tel. 01379 873495
Saturday, May 9 - Fisher Theatre, Bungay, tel. 01986 897130
Wednesday, May 13 - St Edmunds Hall, Hoxne, tel. 01379 855101
Friday, May 15 - Wingfield Barns, tel. 01379 384505
Saturday, May 16 - Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft, 01502 589726
Tuesday, May 19 - Diss Corn Hall, tel. 01379 652241
Thursday, May 21 - Beccles Public Hall, tel. 01502 770060
Tickets are £10 and £8.50 (concessions). All performances start at 7.30pm
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