Corn Exchange Wallingford & Sinodun Players

The Sinodun Players web site is at www.sinodunplayers.org.uk and the Corn Exchange, Wallingford, web site is at www.cornexchange.org.uk.

Next production

Improbable Fiction, 24th to 27th March, 19:45
By Alan Ayckbourn. Six aspiring authors meet on a Winter's evening to discuss their work. Among them are writers of historical romances and children's literature who are finding it difficult to start writing, and a crime writer who can't stop. A creator of extremely complicated science fiction, a librettist without a musical partner and the Writers' Circle chairman, who produces instruction booklets. The chairman attempts to get the group out of a rut by suggesting that they collaborate on a piece of writing, an idea that is received without enthusiasm. However, as the meeting draws to a close there is a clap of thunder and then... A zany and imaginative play full of sharp comedy and affectionate satire.

Confusions, 19th to 22nd May, 19:45
Confusions is the title of a set of five short plays. Julie Utley, the director, intends to present four of the five. The plays themselves deal riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, the human dilemma of loneliness. They are: Mother Figure: a mother who is unable to escape from baby talk. Gosforth's Fete: best laid plans doomed to failure. Between Mouthfuls: infidelities exposed over dinner. Talk in the Park: five self-immolated characters on park benches. This production is the culmination of a series of workshops offered to our members who have had little previous experience of performance on stage. We would like to thank all those trainers (and particularly Chris Harris who worked tirelessly to get this off the ground) for their time and expertise coupled with their ability to cajole and encourage all those budding actors. The results of which mean they are ready to take part in this forthcoming production.

The 2010 Corn Exchange Drama Festival, 13th to 18th June

Cold Comfort Farm, 13th to 17th July, 19:45
A classic of its kind, a dazzling parody of the earthy, melodramatic novels of the period. Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn her own living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to go and live with her relatives, the Starkadders, at Cold Comfort Farm. What relatives, though: Judith, alone in her grief; raving old Ada Doom, who once saw something nasty in the woodshed; Amos, called by God; Seth, smouldering with sex; and Elfine, who just needs a little polish. Flora feels it incumbent upon her to bring order into the chaos. And she turns out to be remarkably good at it.

Our Country's Good, 12th to 16th October, 19:45
Sydney, Australia 1788. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in Australia. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who is about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal. This is one of Timberlake Wertenbaker's best-loved plays.

Where

The Corn Exchange Theatre, Market Place, Wallingford. Click here for a map.

Box office

01491 825000 - Friday and Saturday 10am to 1pm.

Previous productions

Babes in the Magic Wood, 15th to 30th January 2010
Separate Tables, 14th to 17th October 2009
Peter Pan, 2nd to 11th July 2009
The 2009 Corn Exchange Drama Festival, 9th to 12th June 2009
Night School and Celebration, 27th to 30th May 2009
Funny Money, 30th March to 4th April 2009
Puss in Boots, 15th to 31st January 2009
The Way of the World, 13th to 18th October 2008
The Memory of Water, 23rd to 26th July 2008
Wallingford Corn Exchange Drama Festival 2008, 24th to 28th June 2008
Dangerous Corner, 4th to 7th June 2008
Private Fears in Public Places, 31st March to 5th April 2008
Cinderella, 10th to 26th January 2008
Art, 29th November to 1st December 2007
Habeas Corpus, 17th to 20th October 2007
Playhouse Creatures, 23rd to 26th May 2007
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 12th to 27th January 2007
Forever England, 10th to 11th November 2006
The Homecoming, 17th to 21st October 2006
Blithe Spirit, 27th June to 1st July 2006
Corn Exchange Drama Festival, 11th to 16th June 2006. Details in the Archive.
Mrs Warren's Profession, 29th March to 1st April 2006
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, 13th to 28th January 2006
Humble Boy, 19th to 22nd October 2005
Anne of Green Gables, 20th to 23rd and 27th to 30th July 2005
Abigail's Party, 1st to 4th June 2005
The Seagull, 6th to 9th April 2005
Pantomime, 14th to 29th January 2005
Twelfth Night, 27th to 30th October 2004
Present Laughter, 6th to 10th July 2004
Shadowlands, 31st March to 3rd April 2004
Pantomime 'Mother Goose', 16th to 31st January 2004.
Arcadia, 22nd to 25th October 2003.
It Could Be Any One of Us, 14th to 19th July 2003.
Corn Exchange Drama Festival, 15th to 20th June 2003. Details in the Archive.
The Madwoman of Chaillot, 23rd to 26th October 2002.
Oliver! 1st, 2nd, 4th to 6th, 8th to 10th, 12th and 13th July 2002
We performed Party Time by Harold Pinter at the Abingdon (ODNTF) drama festival in 2002.
Sinbad, 11th to 26th January 2002.
Agatha Christie Festival, from 16th October to 3rd November 2001:
 Go Back for Murder, 23rd to 27th October.
Dracula Spectacula, 5th to 7th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 14th July 2001. See the review in the Archive.
Corn Exchange Drama Festival, 10th to 15th June 2001. Details in the Archive.
Arms and the Man, 29th May to 2nd June 2001.
Passion Play, 3rd to 7th April 2001.