“BOY WHO FELL INTO A BOOK”.
The Easingwold Players are busy rehearsing for their next production of Alan Ayckbourn’s “The Boy Who fell in to a Book”, scheduled for the Galtres Entertainment Centre on Wednesday to Saturday, March 3rd to 6th inclusive, nightly at 7:30pm. with a matinee on March 6th at 2pm. Tickets are on sale adults £8 and children £5 from the Galtres box office, telephone 01347 822472, open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm with credit card bookings accepted.
The play, suitable for all ages from nine to ninety, takes the audience on a fantastic journey through a whole shelf of books presenting a great message of the value of reading, and the power of the imagination to transport the reader to other worlds. It focuses on language and story, is a way to be reminded of childhood adventures, or of the enthusiastic journeys one went on with your favourite books. Nine year old Kevin is in bed reading Rockfist Slim and the case of the Green Shakr, and dad wont’ stop nagging him to turn out the light.
As he reads the story aloud it visually comes to life on stage, until he falls into the action and meets hard-boiled detective Rockfist Slim, and together they journey through Kevin’s entire shelf of six books meeting chess players, Red Riding Hood, the Wooblie family, ghosts, and Monique the scary assassin. As Kevin says “With a book, it becomes real. The book becomes part of you”.
The next production to follow the Ayckbourn is “Lettice and Lovage” by Peter Shaffer and will be presented from June 16th to 19th at 7:30pm, with tickets on sale now, same prices as the aforementioned play. The play was written for Dame Maggie Smith, and was originally produced in London in 1987, and during its two-year run of 768 performances it counts as one of the longest in London theatrical history.
The play is set in England, in grand houses open to the public, and where a guide, Lettice Douffet is showing visitors round a stately house and they are bored with her information, then one day she becomes filled with inspiration and begins improvising a wildly untrue, yet entertaining, story about the staircase which jolts the tourists interest. What develops in the story makes this play very entertaining.
The Players also organise theatre trips, and the next one is Wednesday June 30th to the Grand theatre Leeds to see Brian Conley in “Hairspray”, the London show with the feel good factor. There are only four dress circle seats left at £33, discounted from £40-50, and the coaches collect and return to the Market Place, Easingwold, and further details can be obtained by contacting Ian Hall at the Galtres Centre.
