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Last production

Playing on the Radio, 9th September 2011
An evening of staged play readings – just like you hear on the radio! It features two plays. The first is Sentenced, a thought-provoking drama by the Players’ very own award-winning in-house playwright, Jane Brough. The second is Lunch Hour, a ground-breaking Sixties-set one-act play by John Mortimer.
Sentenced is about a man who is arrested for the rape and murder of a young girl 30 years ago, throwing his family in friends into disarray. His daughter is unsure if he did it while his wife is certain he did not but doesn’t trust the legal system. Her best friend doesn’t trust anything or anyone in Cameron’s Britain. So, innocent or guilty? If he is found guilty what will be his sentence and, chillingly, what will be theirs? This is Jane’s second play. Her first, Nearer to Shakespeare, performed by the Players in 2008, was one of the four winners in last year’s Raising Voices competition for new writers run by the Watermill Theatre. Jane’s prize was the opportunity to have her work performed as a ‘rehearsed reading’ by professional actors at the Berkshire venue.
Mortimer’s play, Lunch Hour, was originally written for radio before transferring to the West End and later to the big screen. The story concerns a couple who have started an affair at work and hope to take it further by booking a hotel room near Kings Cross over their lunch hour. Their liaison takes an unusual turn…

Where

Peppard Memorial Hall, Gallowstree Road, Rotherfield Peppard, RG9 5JA.

Box office

Occasions, Peppard Road, Sonning Common or phone 0118 972 2201.

Previous productions

Living Together, 13th to 16th April 2011
Billy Liar, 1st to 4th December 2010
Murder at Peppard Grange, 10th to 11th September 2010