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Posted 5 years ago

April 2017 saw GTP’s production of Edward Albee’s play A Delicate Balance. Our original director had to pull out and Alasdair Hawthorn stepped in to take over the Director’s role. Paola de Rosa and Mark Coleman played the bickering married couple with Glynis playing the alcoholic Sister, Mel the daughter and ‘friends’ played by Andy […]

Posted 5 years ago

It’s the eighties so big hair. In a northwestern Louisiana town the Beauty Salon of Truvy Jones has a new recruit, the shy Annelle Dupoy. Shelby the daughter of M’Lynn Eatenton is getting married and her hair needs the magic of Truvy. Clairee Belcher, the widow of the former mayor is also at the salon […]

Posted 5 years ago

The Matchmaker cast try on their costumes for the first time. They’re looking good and so are the actors!

Posted 5 years ago

Paola de Rosa directed this stunning production of The Diary of Anne Frank and was ably assisted by the actors and the backstage crew. Audiences were moved by the performance. I visited Aushwitz and Birkenau recently and it brought home the inhumanity of the Nazi regime. On a lighter note the backstage crew got to […]

Posted 5 years ago

A departure from Eastwood Park Theatre to Webster’s Theatre in the west end for The Cripple of Inishmaan. There were a few “fecks”, a few eggs smashed and truths brought out in the island’s tight community. We had a great cast and the Director, Alasdair Hawthorn, brought the best out of them. Neil was brilliant […]

Posted 5 years ago

Terence Rattigan’s masterpiece was produced by GTP in 2012. Donald and Paola played the couple Peter and Joan trying to maintain their hedonistic lifestyle as the world was collapsing around them. The cast had a party imbibing gin and champagne. Mark Coleman directed this stylised production in 2012.