Designs on Ladies

by Georges Feydeau, translated by David King, adapted by Rodney Figaro
directed by Maxina Cornwell

Moulineaux, a doctor married to Yvonne, attempts to have his first affair with the wife of Aubin, a retired military man, who is having an affair with the lost wife of Bassinet.  Yvonne and her mother take on the fight to save her marriage.  Fast paced, full of mishaps, lies and overcharged emotions!  A superb night of fun!

 

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Tickets £10 except Friday 3 May and Saturday evening, 4 May at £12.00

Saturday 27 April to Saturday 4 May 2013
Performances start at 7:45p.m. except Sunday at 4p.m. There is also a matinee at 3p.m. on Saturday 4th • Wed 1 May - No performance

Please enquire of the Box Office before booking tickets as to the extent of the provision available at the Mary Wallace Theatre for those with disabilities.

Other past productions

1. Journey’s End - R C Sherriff
2. Larkin with Women - Ben Brown
3. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
4. Joking Apart - Alan Ayckbourn
5. The 39 Steps - John Buchan (Adapted by Patrick Barlow from an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon)
6. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
7. Romeo and Juliet - A Senior Youth Theatre Production - William Shakespeare
8. Bette and Joan - Anton Burge
9. The Railway Children (stage version) - E. Nesbit adapted by Mike Kenny
10. Richard II - William Shakespeare
11. Kindertransport - Diane Samuels
12. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
13. The Death of Miss Gloria Starr - Devised by the cast
14. Metamorphosis - Steven Berkoff, from the classic story by Franz Kafka
15. The Seagull - Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Torben Betts
16. The History of Cardenio - William Shakespeare, John Fletcher and Gary Taylor
17. The Snow Dragons - Lizzie Nunnery
18. The Weir - Conor McPherson
19. Oh! What a Lovely War - Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop
20. The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
21. Tom and Viv - Michael Hastings
22. As You Like It - William Shakespeare
23. Toad of Toad Hall - A. A. Milne - A play from Kenneth Grahame’s book ‘The Wind in the Willows’ Music by H Fraser-Simson
24. Collaborators - John Hodge
25. Boeing-Boeing - Marc Camoletti translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans
26. We Are Three Sisters - Blake Morrison
27. THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO - Lee Hall from Carlo Collodi’s original tale
28. The White Devil - John Webster
29. The Adventures of Dick Whittington and his Cat - Dickon Williamson
30. King Lear - William Shakespeare
31. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
32. Coraline - from the novel by Neil Gaiman
33. Night Must Fall - Emlyn Williams
34. All’s Well that Ends Well - William Shakespeare
35. The Government Inspector - Nikolai Gogol, adapted by D. J. Campbell
36. Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov, in a version by Christopher Hampton
37. Egad! The Woman in White - Tim Kelly
38. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett, adapted by Stephen Briggs
39. Master Shakeshafte - Peter Parkinson
40. Love’s Labour’s Lost - William Shakespeare
41. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie, Tim Supple and David Tushingham
42. From These Green Heights - Dermot Bolger
43. Othello - William Shakespeare
44. Blood Wedding (Youth Theatre) - Federico García Lorca - Translation by Gwynne Edwards
45. The Chalk Garden - Enid Bagnold
46. A Tender Thing - Ben Power
47. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
48. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
49. Educating Rita - Willy Russell
50. The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
51. Robin Hood - David Barrett
52. Double Bill: Leonardo’s Last Supper and Laughter (Part II) - Peter Barnes
53. Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco, translated by Martin Crimp
54. Once in a Lifetime - Moss Hart & George S Kaufman
55. The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Rattigan
56. Dracula - Liz Lochhead adapted from Bram Stoker's novel
57. Henry VIII or All is True (staged reading) - William Shakespeare & John Fletcher
58. The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery - David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin jr.
59. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
60. Around The World in 8 Plays - Patrick Greene and Jason Pizzarello
61. In the Club - Richard Bean
62. Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
63. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens, adapted by Jo Clifford
64. Peter Pan - JM Barrie (John Caird and Trevor Nunn)
65. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
66. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
67. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
68. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
    adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
69. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
70. Tom Paine - Paul Foster
71. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
72. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
73. This Story of Yours - John Hopkins
74. King John - William Shakespeare
75. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
76. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
77. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
78. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
79. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
80. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
81. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
82. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
83. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
84. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
85. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
86. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
87. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
88. Iron - Rona Munro
89. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
90. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

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