Welcome to the Richmond Shakespeare Society
We are a highly-respected amateur dramatic society founded in 1934 to perform Shakespeare's plays annually in the open air.
Today we have grown to a programme of eight productions a year by vastly differing playwrights from ancient Greece to the modern day. In addition, we have two shows by our Youth Theatre groups.
We have our own theatre, the Mary Wallace Theatre by the riverside in Twickenham. Our Summer Show is an Open Air production, in the gardens of neighbouring York House.
Please note that the Mary Wallace is a Club Theatre and that only members of the R.S.S. may buy tickets. However, becoming a member is easy and costs only £10; members may buy tickets for friends and family. The Summer Show is open to non-members.
Glengarry Glen Ross
by David Mamet
directed by Jay Walsh
"Glengarry Glen Ross" is writer David Mamet's masterpiece. In the 1984 classic, his rapid, incisive dialogue is quicker and more brutal than in any other play he's written, and the characters all exhibit a kind of rowdy vileness and vitriolic disposition that is appalling, engaging and astounding. Mamet's message is not just that real estate is a cutthroat business; the real focus of Mamet's 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning play, is the struggle between men - the need for a weak, hurting, woeful individual to lash out against those who prevent him from being better; and the need for those at the top of their game to slander those they know are starving.
Times are tough in a New York real-estate office; the salesmen (Shelley Levene, Ricky Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow) are given a strong incentive to succeed in a sales contest. The prizes? First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, second prize is a set of steak knives, third prize is the sack! There is no room for losers in this dramatically masculine world; only "closers" will get the good sales leads. There is a lot of pressure to succeed, so a robbery is committed which has unforeseen consequences for all the characters.
This is a play with adult themes and some language we would suggest not suitable for children.
Saturday 18th to Saturday 25th September 2010
Performances at 7.45p.m. except for Sunday, 19th September, 4p.m.
There is also a matinee at 3p.m. on Saturday, 25th September.
There is no performance on Wednesday 22nd September.
Telephone bookings open: Call the Box Office on 020 8744 0547
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none”All's Well That Ends Well, Act i, Sc.1