Goring Gap Players

The Goring Gap Players web site is at www.goringgapplayers.co.uk.

Last production

Absurd Person Singular, 23rd to 26th November 2011
By Alan Ayckbourn. A black comedy in which we follow the fortunes of three couples over three successive Christmases. In the first act we see nerdy tradesman, Sidney Hopcroft, and his nervy wife, Jane, fretfully entertaining two couples: a lecherous architect and his flaky wife plus an upper-crust bank manager and his spouse. By the middle act, the action has shifted to the architect's kitchen where his wife, Eva, spends the whole time vainly trying to kill herself. Finally, we are in the banker's kitchen where he seeks to console his drink-befuddled wife and the unemployable architect. Only with the arrival of the now ebullient Hopcrofts do we see how the social kaleidoscope has been shaken up. Ayckbourn has always written about class; but this play, in charting the unstoppable rise of Sidney and the comparable decline of his superiors, is on to something more. Ayckbourn foresees the emergence of a culture of self-interest in which the entrepreneurial small-businessman would enjoy a vindictive triumph over the lazily arrogant professional classes.

Where

Morrell Room, Streatley.

Box office

Tickets available from Inspiration, 1 The Arcade, High Street Goring, 01491 873019: Monday to Saturday 09:00 to 17:00. Or call 01491 873530.

Previous Productions

Murder on the Nile, 23rd to 26th March 2011
Map of the Heart, 24th to 27th March 2010
The Dining Room, 25th to 28th March 2009
The Cemetery Club, 19th to 22nd November 2008
A Man For All Seasons, 23rd to 26th April 2008
Blithe Spirit, 21st to 24th March 2007
Pack of Lies, 29th March to 1st April 2006
Lysistrata, 23rd to 26th November 2005
Katherine Howard, 5th to 9th April 2005
Having a Ball, 30th June to 3rd July 2004
Educating Rita, 24th to 27th March 2004
Stags and Hens, 26th to 29th March 2003
Little Women, 20th to 23rd November 2002