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Our popular series of script-in-hand performances returns this April in a new afternoon slot while we carry out our capital project to rebuild our front of house.
Taking place at 4pm in our auditorium, OT Teatime Plays continues the tradition of our Lunchtime Plays, honouring the origins of the Orange Tree Theatre. In the theatre’s earliest days, a group of actors would gather in a room above the Orange Tree pub to read a play in the round, without a set.
We launch the series with Village Wooing by George Bernard Shaw, an anti-romantic Shavian comedy directed by the OT’s Birkbeck Resident Assistant Director Freya Griffiths. Freya has assisted on recent OT productions including Dance of Death and The Rivals, and we are delighted to showcase her work.
A chance meeting at sea brings together two very different travellers: a shy, cerebral author in search of quiet, and a brisk, practical young woman with little patience for his reserve. When they meet again months later in her village shop, their conversation resumes and quickly becomes a lively contest of wit, stubbornness, and curiosity.
