minack
APRIL 6,7,8,9,10,11 at 8pm and 7 & 9 at 2pm
LEGALLY BLONDE :THE MUSICAL
Music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin: Book by Heather Hach
Act Now Entertainment
This action-packed musical follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles
stereotypes, snobbery, and scandal in pursuit of her dreams. It explodes on the stage
with memorable songs and dynamic dances. Both hilarious and heart-warming, this
musical is so much fun it should be illegal!
MAY 18,19,20,21,22 at 8pm and 19 & 21 at 2pm
CIDER WITH ROSIE
Laurie Lee, adapted for the stage by Nick Darke Trebiggan Productions
Laurie Lee's gentle and beautifully touching story recounts the defining moments of his
adolescent life, recalling glorious outings, erratic family life and of course that first ciderfuelled encounter.This version by Nick Darke will be part of a festival celebrating Nick's
life, with a good Trebiggan twist thrown in!
MAY 25,26,27,28,29 at 8pm and 26,28 at 2pm
CAROUSEL
Music by Richard Rodgers: Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II BROS Theatre Company
This classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical contains a host of beautiful songs like 'If I
loved you', 'June is bustin' out all over', and 'You'll never walk alone'. Set on the US
Maine coastline, the Minack offers the perfect venue for this evergreen love story that
will delight & amuse old & young alike.
JUNE 1,2,3,4,5 at 8pm and 2 & 4 at 2pm
THE SEAGULL
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Chris Chambers Another Way Theatre Company
In a summer holiday home by a lake,Anton Chekhov's masterpiece unravels.The story
follows two writers - Treplev and Trigorin and two actresses, the youthful Nina and the
famous Arkadina - both at very different stages of their lives and careers.Against a
backdrop of peace and tranquillity relationships are tested to the limit and the very art
of what it is to be alive, to love and to create becomes the theme.
JUNE 8, 9,10,11,12 at 8pm and 8, 9,10,11,12 at 1.30pm
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE
Adapted by Oliver Gray, music by Paul Dukas, magic consultant Paul Daniels Illyria
Bored of his chores, the apprentice waves his wand and a broom magically fetches
water. But he can't find a spell to stop it. In desperation he saws it in half.And
everything spirals out of control… Illyria returns with eye-popping illusions, a LOT of
water, and magical family fun for all ages 5+!
JUNE 15,16,17,18,19 at 8pm and 16,17,18 at 1.30pm
2015
minack
sessions
April 1 - 3
KIDZ R US present
AN EVENING WITH
RODGERS &
HAMMERSTEIN
APRIL 30 at 8pm
BLUE APPLE THEATRE'S
Much Ado About Nothing
MAY 2 at 8pm
PEOPLE'S STRING
FOUNDATION
MAY 3 at 8pm
INCHOIR
MAY 4 at 8pm
DUCHY OPERA present
ONE FINE DAY
MAY 6 - 8 at 8pm
SEVENSTONES THEATRE
present
LIFE OF RILEY
By Alan Ayckbourn
MAY 9 at 8pm
THE DODGE BROTHERS
MAY 12 at 8pm
KERNOW KING 'SPLANN'
MAY 14 at 8pm
PORT ISAAC'S
FISHERMAN'S FRIENDS
MAY 15
MIDGE URE & ELECTRIC
THEATRE CO.
MAY 16
CHRIS DIFFORD & GLENN
TILBROOK
FRIENDS OF NARCISSUS
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
A new-look Central production for adults and young people.After a storm, a
mysterious boy is washed up on the beach. Soon everyone is tweeting, posting, and
snapchatting about who he might be, and how beautiful he is.An epic tale mixing ancient
mythology with local folk-lore.
JUNE 22,23,24,25,26 at 8pm and 23,25 at 2pm
events
JULY 20,21,22,23,24 at 8pm and 21,23 at 2pm
A LADY OF LITTLE SENSE
by Lope de Vega, translated by David Johnston Janus Theatre Company
Nise and Finea are beauties, their father wants them married,
suitors are competing for them.The problem? Nise is too clever and Finea is stupid.
Can they hide Finea's flaws and trick a suitor into marriage? Will a huge dowry help?
A 17th Century romantic comedy which celebrates the power of love.
JULY 27,28,29,30,31 at 8pm and 28 & 30 at 2pm
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO
THE FORUM
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart
Truro Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society
Pseudolus, a slave, tries to earn his freedom by helping his master win the heart of
Philia, a courtesan. But she has been sold to mighty warrior Miles Gloriosus! This
hysterical Tony Award winning musical farce has mistaken identities, eunuchs, plot
twists, much silliness and some bawdy humour.
AUG 3,4,5,6,7 at 8pm and 4,6 at 2pm
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
John Steinbeck, adapted for the stage by Frank Galati Shattered Windscreen
Winner of the 1990 Tony Award, this powerful stage adaptation of the John Steinbeck
novel depicts the struggle of one family's flight from the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma
during the Great Depression.Their journey to California reveals the strength of the
human spirit in a timeless story that has become an American masterpiece.
AUG 10,11,12,13,14 at 8pm and 11,13 at 2pm
THE LION,THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE
C. S. Lewis, adapted by Glynn Robbins Next Stage Theatre Company
C. S. Lewis' well-loved tale takes the audience on a magical journey to the land of
Narnia - a land cursed by the White Witch.To overcome her evil, four children,
helped by the mighty lion Aslan, fulfil an ancient prophecy, release magic from Before
the Dawn of Time and fulfil their destinies. Unmissable.
AUG 17,18,19,20,21 at 8pm and 18,20 at 2pm
KING LEAR
William Shakespeare Winchester College Players
King Lear combines the rhetoric of tyranny and storm with the Fool's riddles, Lear's
mad prose with a monosyllabic simplicity, in an epic double plot about family, power,
love, justice, nature and the gods.Violent, funny, shattering - this tragedy is often said
to be Shakespeare's greatest play.
AUG 24,25,26,27,28 at 8pm and 25,27 at 2pm
JACK THE RIPPER
Ron Pember and Denis de Marne. Romsey Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society
This light-hearted musical play, set in a Music Hall and the East End streets of
Whitechapel, attempts to reconstruct the infamous murders of 1888. It makes no
claims to who the Ripper was, but hints at his identity. Full of witty and poignant
songs it shifts between reality and comic fantasy and presents a guest appearance of
'Our much beloved Queen Victoria'.
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
AUG 31, SEPT 1,2,3,4 at 8pm and 1,3 at 2pm
Oliver Goldsmith The Questors Theatre
Marlow, a cocky young blade from London, pays a visit to the country in search of a
wife. But when he falls victim to a practical joke a long night of hilarious mayhem
ensues.Warm-hearted, rumbustious and above all funny, this 18th century classic is one
of the English stage's greatest comedies.
THE LADYKILLERS
JUNE 29,30, JULY 1,2,3 at 8pm and JUNE 30 & JULY 2 at 2pm
Graham Linehan Ilkley Playhouse
Based on the classic 1950s Ealing black comedy, five criminals posing as musicians
rent a room in the house of a sweet but eccentric old lady to plan a robbery. With
only her parrot 'General Gordon' to assist her Mrs Wilberforce is driven into a
dangerous game where there can only be one survivor!
THE MAGNIFICENT THREE
SEPT 7, 8, 9,10,11,12 at 8pm and 8,10 at 2pm
by Bill Scott Miracle Theatre Company
Cornwall's award winning Miracle Theatre pays a long awaited visit to the Wild West.
Inspired by the stories of Zane Grey and countless interchangeable B movie plots, this
will be a spaghetti western for lovers of open-air theatre, accompanied by the strains of
country music as reinvented by Tom Adams.A comic look at gender politics and
anarchy, set among endless prairies, swinging bar doors and smoking guns - with not a
horse in sight. YEEHAW!
THE SORCERER
JULY 6,7,8,9,10 at 8pm and 7,9 at 2pm
SEPT 16,17,18,19,20 at 8pm and 17,19 at 2pm
A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL
by Alan Ayckbourn Global Theatre Company
Nothing if not ambitious, the Pendon Amateur Light Operatic Society is taking on
'The Beggar's Opera', and 'The Beggar's Opera' is winning! That is, until a
personable but shy widower, Guy Jones, joins the team! This play is heralded by
many as the funniest and most wickedly accurate portrait of
am dram life ever created.
JULY 13,14,15,16,17 at 8pm and 14,16 at 2pm
CARMEN
by Georges Bizet New Cornwall Opera
She's not a bad person. However, she is a deadly cocktail of
desire and devastation. Carmen is a byword for passion and
intoxication and without doubt one of the most alluring,
popular and well-known operas in the world.
Sung in English.
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W.S.Gilbert & A.Sullivan Cambridge University G.&S. Society
Starry-eyed young lovers Alexis and Aline wish everyone in their village could be as
happily besotted as they are. In a moment of inspiration, they hire sorcerer John
Wellington Wells to brew a love-potion for their fellow citizens. It remains only to
slip the potion into the tea at the wedding feast, and well, it's G&S, you know the
rest.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
William Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe On Tour
Claudio loves Hero and Hero loves Claudio and nothing seems capable of keeping
them apart. Claudio's friend Benedick loves Beatrice and Beatrice loves Benedick, but
(because neither will admit it) nothing seems capable of bringing them together.
SEPT 23,24,25 at 8pm and 24 at 2pm
THE RISE AND FALL OF MAGBETH
Michael Sagar-Fenton The Belerion Players
Shakespeare would have written about Margaret Thatcher if he'd been
around - but he wasn't, so instead ‘The Rise and Fall of Magbeth’ takes
on the challenge, gleefully pillaging most of the
Bard's canon on the way, a fast and hilarious gallop
though the blackest comedy of our times.
SEPT 26 & 27 at 8pm and 27 at 2pm
PROMS AT THE MINACK
Mount Charles Brass Band and friends
Bring your flags, horns and whistles to help create
the traditional Proms ambience.A great party
atmosphere brings the curtain down on another
Minack season.
This programme is correct at the
time of going to press.
SHOWS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN...
These shows are very popular so it is advisable to book in advance at www.minack.com or 01736 810181.
...bring the children along to one of our 10.30am shows
on Wednesday and Friday mornings during school holidays
- all included in the day visitor admission price.