Moonlight and Magnolias

by Ron Hutchinson
directed by Maxina Cornwell

Moonlight & Magnolias is set in 1939 in an office at Hollywood Studios.  David O. Selznick has shut down production on the most eagerly anticipated movie in history – Gone with the Wind – scrapping the original script and sacking the director in the process.  He is determined to get a rewrite in five days, and he engages the services of ace script doctor Ben Hecht – possibly the only person in America who has not read the novel.  He also poaches movie director, Victor Fleming, straight from the set of The Wizard of Oz where he has been squabbling with the Munchkins and coming to blows with Judy Garland.  Selznick’s reputation is on the line, and with nothing but a stockpile of peanuts and bananas to sustain them, he locks himself in his office with his two collaborators, and a marathon creative session begins ...

Saturday 9th to Saturday 16th May 2009
Evenings at 7.45p.m.
except
Sunday 10th May at 4p.m.
also
Matinee at 3p.m. on Saturday 16th May •Wednesday 13th - No performance

Other past productions

1. Taking Sides - Ronald Harwood
2. Aladdin - John Crocker - Music & Lyrics by Eric Gilder
3. Little Gem - Elaine Murphy
4. Vita & Virginia - Eileen Atkins
   adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
5. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
6. Tom Paine - Paul Foster
7. Youth Theatre Double Bill - Will Averill: Cinderella: Or How Pipsqueak the Mouse Became a Stallion. 'Crinkley Bottom............' was devised in-house
8. Gormenghast - John Constable adapted from the novel by Mervyn Peake
9. This Story of Yours - John Hopkins
10. King John - William Shakespeare
11. Pygmalion - Bernard Shaw
12. Fallen Angels - Noel Coward
13. A Month in the Country - Ivan Turgenev - adapted into English by Emlyn Williams
14. Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet
15. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
16. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
17. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
18. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
19. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
20. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
21. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
22. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
23. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
24. Iron - Rona Munro
25. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
26. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
27. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
28. Lulu - Frank Wedekind, in a version by Peter Barnes
29. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
30. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
31. Harvey - Mary Chase
32. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
33. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty
34. Henry V - William Shakespeare
35. Arabian Nights - adapted by Dominic Cooke
36. Vincent in Brixton - Nicholas Wright
37. The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
38. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
39. An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

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