Tickets are now on sale for Bay Theatre Players’ July production of Talking Heads.
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You can book your seats on-line, any time, via the link on www.baytheatreplayers.org.au or directly from the theatre’s ticket agent at www.trybooking.com/WBHF.
Tickets will also be available every Saturday morning at BTP’s Box Office in the Bay Playhouse Theatre foyer at 33 Gregory Street, Batemans Bay.
There will be eight performances.
Evening shows will be at 7.30pm on Friday, July 20; Saturday, July 21; Friday, July 27; and Saturday, July 28, and 2pm matinees on Sunday, July 22; Tuesday, July 24; Saturday, July 28 and Sunday, July 29.
The Talking Heads series of one-act plays was written by Alan Bennett, author of many well-known works including Lady in the Van, The History Boys and The Madness of George III.
They were first produced for BBC television in the 1980s.
Director, Jenny Kohlhagen, says that Alan Bennett has commented that he could easily have written any of these monologues as full plays, but then they would be very different stories.
And then they would have also been much fairer to the people that each narrator is talking about!
Jenny explains: “The four characters you will see on stage tell their stories through their own eyes, with their own biases, their own preconceptions.
“You, the audience, will build up a picture of the ‘other’ characters who don’t appear in the play, based on the disarmingly open and honest words of the narrator.
“Unlike a play with a large cast of characters talking to each other, in a monologue the audience is privy to the most intimate thoughts and opinions of the character being portrayed, along with their views of the people who inhabit their world.”
“Talking Heads will be engaging, compelling, and thought-provoking and will include moments that define the characters and the themes of their stories.”
Jenny adds: “For example, in A Lady of Letters, the self-righteous Miss Ruddock sees herself in a totally different light to that which the audience will cast upon her.
“Yet, while we, the audience, condemn Miss Ruddock, perhaps we see a little too much of ourselves in the character portrayed on stage.”
Talking Heads will be engaging, compelling, and thought-provoking and will include moments that define the characters and the themes of their stories
- Director Jenny Kohlhagen
The Bay Theatre Players are a very active community theatre company presenting three to four productions each year, encompassing a broad range of Australian and International Comedy, Drama, Farce, and Musicals.
