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. A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
2. A Vampire Story - Moira Buffini
3. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll - dramatised by Adrian Mitchell
4. The Odd Couple (female version) - Neil Simon
5. The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Martin McDonagh
6. Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
7. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
8. Gaslight - Patrick Hamilton
9. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
10. Iron - Rona Munro
11. Confusions - Alan Ayckbourn
12. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
13. I Hate Shakespeare - Steph DeFerie
14. Lulu - Frank Wedekind, in a version by Peter Barnes
15. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
16. Whipping It Up - Steve Thompson
17. Harvey - Mary Chase
18. Happy Days - Samuel Beckett
19. Days of Wine and Roses - Owen McCafferty
20. Henry V - William Shakespeare
21. Arabian Nights - adapted by Dominic Cooke
22. Vincent in Brixton - Nicholas Wright
23. The Real Thing - Tom Stoppard
24. Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
25. An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley

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