Category: Jan Stevenson

2000

The Crucible

Wimborne Drama,

27th May, 200023rd October, 2023

Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A small group of girls ‘cry out’ against other people in the town, accusing them of witchcraft, in an attempt to cover up their own dabblings in the occult.

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

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.

1995

And So To Bed

Wimborne Drama,

25th October, 199523rd October, 2023

A charming and scintilating comedy concerning Samuel Pepys, who calls on Mistress Knight but is forced to hide in a closet because of a visit to the fascinating lady by Charles II.

1995

One For The Road

Wimborne Drama,

5th April, 199523rd October, 2023

This observant comedy finds Dennis on the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, making a last-ditch attempt to break away from the confines of his middle-class, housing-estate existence.