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FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS Arundel Town Festival 2009 - Drip Action Theatre Trail Saturday 22 August - Saturday 29 August 8 original plays, in 8 venues across the town, every day for 8 days. 11am Arundel Football Club, Mill Road. QUIRKS by Simon Brett A newly commissioned play for this year's Trail 12 noon 55 Tarrant Street THE LAST CHAIR by Ian Townsend After you? Or after me? Venue by kind permission of Simon and Brigid Wootton 1pm St Mary's Hall, London Road THE LONELINESS OF THE ROADSIDE FLOWER SELLER by Kenneth Emson Three motorists eventually meet up... The winner of this year's Joy Goun Award for best play 2pm The Victoria Club 412 LETTERS by Matthew Wilkie Writing and a relationships - looking for a denouement 3pm The India Gate JANICE AND WAYNE by Tim Connery Conspiracy theories can take you over 4pm The Swan Hotel HIS MASTER'S VOICE by Tony Gaughan A woman inherits her deceased brother's dog - lively characters both. 5pm 57 Maltravers Street RING RING by Geoff Saunders Love + telephones = confusion In associatio with Castaway Productions Venue by kind permission of John and Sue Marsh 6pm The Garden Spa, 49 Tarrant Street POISON by David Neale Who's poisoning whom? Tickets are £5 (£3 students) on the door or Season Tickets (admission to all 8 plays) are £30 (no concessions) and are available in advance, from the Arundel Information Centre, Crown Yard or by telephoning 01903 882268 Season ticket holders are only guaranteed a seat 15 minutes before the start of each performance. Late arrivals may not be granted entry. Please note that, due to licensing laws, on Wednesday 26 August all plays will be performed at the Victoria Club. Timings remain unchanged. All programme information subject to change. Arundel Town Festival Evening Production THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES by Joanna Murray-Smith Monday 24 - Saturday 29 August 2009 The Victoria Club, Tarrant Street, Arundel at 8pm Drip Action is delighted to welcome director Lin Jones to the company; with Pennie Billinghurst, Justine Richardson, Marielle Cottee, Paul Jones Simon Birks and Nick Rowling in this deliciously wicked comedy that deftly walks the tightrope between satire and farce, proving the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male. "... that rarest of things, a contemporary drama written from a genuinely reactionary perspective." The Telegraph Margot Mason, famous feminist writer is sitting at her desk at home, struggling to finish her next book. Through the doors of the study enters young, uninvited student, Molly Rivers... and Molly has a gun. "Frankenstein and Dracula have nothing on you. Jekyll and Hyde join the back of the queue The female of the species is more deadly than the male." "The Female of the Species" by Space 1996 Tickets are £9 (£8 Victoria Club members, £5 students ) available from the Arundel Information Centre, Crown Yard, Arundel, by calling 01903 882268 The Female of the Species is not included in the Theatre Trail Season Ticket offer. Patrons are respectfully requested to arrive in good time for the start of the performance. Drip Action reserves the right to re-sell unclaimed tickets 15 minutes before the start of each performance. "When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster , who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male." The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling 1911 For details about other events during the Festival visit: www.arundelfestival.co.uk www.arundelgallerytrail.co.uk www.arundelmusic.co.uk SUPPORT DRIP ACTION You can help support Drip Action by volunteering to help behind the scenes, front of house, directing, operating lights/sound or by treading the boards. Alternatively become a patron by downloading a form or ask one of our volunteers at the next production. Completed forms should be returned along with your donation to: Drip Action Theatre, 1 Norfolk House, 28 High Street, Arundel, West Sussex BN18 9AB Cheques should be made payable to Drip Action Theatre Company. Please also contact us if you would like to see how you can sponsor Drip Action, whether it's for one production, help with printing/publicity costs or by making a general donation. We would be delighted to hear from you. THE VICTORIA CLUB The Victoria Club is open all year round and as well as being the home of Drip Action Theatre is host to Arundel's only Jazz Club (the first Thursday of every month) and regular exercise classes (every Monday night). It also hosts charity events and provides an ideal venue for private parties. Pilates is also coming soon. Members of the Victoria Club enjoy concessionary rates on most of the events held at the club and also benefit from subsidised bar prices. Membership is £10 per year from 1 April - ask behind the bar for a form on your next visit. The Victoria Club, 10 Tarrant Street, Arundel BN18 9DG By joining you will be helping to ensure the future of one of Arundel's most valuable institutions. Jazz Club Dates For Your Diary Thursday July2 2009 - Kelly Dickson Thursday August 6 2009 - Joe Auckland All performances are with the sensational Arundel Jazz Club house band, the Steve Thompson Trio: Double Bass - Steve Thompson Piano - Terry Seabrook Drums - Alex Ebrhard All performances start at 8:00pm, bar open from 7:30pm. Tickets are £9.00 (£8.00 Victoria Club members) available in advance by phoning 07815 479079, from Hamlyn Sparks Estate Agents 1 Quay House, River Road, Arundel or on the door.

Welcome to DRIP ACTION THEATRE COMPANY Drip Action was founded in 1987 by Bill Brennan and Chris Warren-Adamson and takes as its remit the production of new and lesser known work in an intimate space where there is a close interaction between the players and the audience. To date, on its 20th anniversary, it has staged well over 150 productions, some plays from Europe, often translated and premiered by the company. Home productions are performed in its studio theatre at The Victoria Club in Arundel, West Sussex, and, at midsummer, in the atmospheric Chapel Barn at South Stoke. The company has toured to venues in the south of England and London, including schools and colleges, restaurants and bars - and HM Prison, Ford. (No jokes about captive audiences, please) Its European connection has resulted in its own translations and premières of French, German and Italian plays, and performances by invitation in France. Drip Action was awarded charitable status in 1995 for its staging of innovative and educational theatre. One of its more recent innovations is the creation of The Arundel Theatre Trail for the town's annual summer festival, when, each day, eight different half-hour plays are staged consecutively at different venues in the town, in all a grand total of sixty-four performances. Writers are invited to submit a play for the Trail, and in 2006, 100 entries were received from the UK, USA and beyond. The company invites and hosts plays from similarly progressive, small-scale companies. Other adventures have included the Arundel Festival Series of River Plays, where audiences afloat watched performances on and by the river Arun. In celebration of its 20th anniversary Drip Action is putting together a suitably festive programme, including a reprise of its very first production, the world stage premiere of Tom Stoppard's radio play 'Artist Descending a Staircase'. Check out our productions for a list of our kind of plays! Check out our contact details if you'd like to be involved in any capacity! Bill Brennan, Artistic Director, Drip Action Theatre Company

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