Author: Wimborne Drama

2000

Habeas Corpus

Wimborne Drama,

16th February, 200023rd October, 2023

The antics at the Wicksteed home are a satirical merry-go-round. Family, friends and the sexual satisfaction of the “corpus” (body) are the ruling passions in this farcical comedy of ill-manners.

1999

Blithe Spirit

Wimborne Drama,

20th October, 199923rd October, 2023

Charles Condomine, a fussy and cantankerous novelist, has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira.

1999

The Roses of Eyam

Wimborne Drama,

19th May, 199923rd October, 2023

A remarkable true story of a village stricken with plague through the arrival from London of a box of clothing; of the villagers’ determination to prevent its spread and contain the disease.

1999

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

Wimborne Drama,

10th February, 199923rd October, 2023

Lord Arthur Savile’s is engaged to lovely Sybil Merton. Her pet chiromantist Podgers has read Lord Arthur’s palm and foretold he would commit a murder…

1998

Fur Coat and No Knickers

Wimborne Drama,

14th October, 199823rd October, 2023

This play concerns the wedding of Deirdre and Mark, which begins on the stag night when an inebriated Mark is chained to a lamppost with a blow-up rubber doll.

1998

Sweeney Todd

Wimborne Drama,

1st April, 199823rd October, 2023

Bond’s adaptation of the classic melodrama positions the murderous barber as a wronged man seeking vengeance against his numerous oppressors.

1997

Mr Macaroni and the Exploding Pizza Pie

Wimborne Drama,

11th December, 199723rd October, 2023

This fun-filled play revolves around the antics of three waiters sacked by Mr Macaroni, the money-minded owner of the Pizza Pie Palace.

1997

A Voyage Round My Father

Wimborne Drama,

3rd September, 199723rd October, 2023

There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed from a trellis surrounded garden.

1997

A Kind Of Alaska

Wimborne Drama,

23rd April, 199723rd October, 2023

Deborah was a lively 16-year-old and part of a close-knit family when she fell victim to sleeping sickness. Twenty-nine years later she comes to life.

1997

An Evening with Gary Lineker

Wimborne Drama,

5th March, 199723rd October, 2023

July 4th, 1990. In Italy, England are playing Germany in the Semi final of the World Cup. In Majorca, Bill and Monica are on holiday trying to rekindle a failing marriage.