COMMON GROUND
THEATRE COMPANY

From 13th December 2018 to 19th January 2019 we will be touring our new Christmas show, The Scarlet Pipistrelle.

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They seek him here, they seek him there,

Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.

Is he in Heaven, or is he in Hell,

Or at a meeting of the East Ipswich

                         Ladies Crochet Group, who can tell? 

 

At the weekly meeting of the East Ipswich Ladies Crochet Group, revolution is in the air. The ladies are preparing their annual Xmas entertainment and this year's themes are the French Revolution and bat conservation.

 

Through the magic of crochet, they take us back to Paris, 1793. Heads are rolling, and no-one is safe from the roving finger of fate, the thumb of tyranny and the wrist of injustice. But help is at hand for the victims of The Terror, in the form of that dashing master of disguise and echo-location, The Scarlet Pipistrelle, a mysterious Englishman, who has already undertaken several rescues of condemned aristocrats. Who knows, perhaps this time, he might actually succeed!

 

Joining Julian Harries is Dougal Lee (recently played Frank in Educating Rita at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester and Tevye in Fiddler on The Roof  at Frinton Summer Theatre), Estrid Barton (who last worked with Harries & Whymark in their Eastern Angles Xmas show, Sherlock Holmes & The Curse of The Mummy's Tomb), and Emily Bennett, who joins the company for her third production (after Sherlock Holmes & The Hooded Lance (2017) and The Mariner (2018)).

 

After last year's near-sellout show, Sherlock Holmes & The Hooded Lance (“A glorious piece of Christmas fun" - EADT), Suffolk-based Common Ground Theatre Company, led by Pat Whymark and Julian Harries - "those magicians of Christmas entertainment" (Andrew Clarke, EADT) – are touring the region again with their ever-popular Christmas show, full of their trademark mix of physical comedy, puns, musical dexterity and sheer lunacy that East Anglian Christmas audiences know and love.

 

This year they have added several performances to the tour , playing Harkstead Village Hall (13 Dec), Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge (14-15 Dec), John Peel Centre, Stowmarket (17-19 Dec), Headgate Theatre, Colchester (20-22 Dec), St Mary's Hall, Walton (27-29 Dec), Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh (1-4 Jan), Diss Corn Hall, (5 Jan) & The New Wolsey Studio (8-19 Jan).