A SUMMER TO REMEMBER - 2007
Soldier's Heart by David French
Starring James Hawksley, Greg White and Geoff Adams
Directed by Charles Herriott Stage Manager: Amelia Manual
An alienated sixteen-year-old Jacob, standing on a railway platform, his suitcase and one-way ticket away from home in hand. His father Esau, a veteran of the First World War, rushes to the station in a last-ditch effort to persuade his son not to leave. Unable to speak of what had happened in the Great War since his return, Esau begins, in halting and tentative language to tell of his comrades and his brother, their training in Scotland, the agony of Gallipoli, and finally the formative events at the battle of the Somme at Beaumont Hamel. At first defensive in response to his son's probing and impatient questioning, Esau's answers evolve into stories of pride, foolishness, anger, desperation, and finally mindless terror, leaving only the image of a man driven by the blind animal instinct to survive. It is this devastating and unsparing account of all that is in a soldier's heart, that finally brings father and son back together.
It Had to Be You by Renee Taylor & Joseph Bologna
Starring Amelia Manuel, Charles Herriott and Geoff Adams
Directed by Charles Herriott Stage Manager: Greg White
Theda Blau is a struggling Hollywood B movie actress and wannabe playwright -- seeking love and success in New York. Vito Pignoli is a super successful television commercial director. Theda meets Vito by auditioning for him and then convinces him to become her partner in dramaturgy and marriage ... by holding him hostage in her apartment on a snowy Christmas Eve where she holds him hostage in her apartment trying to persuade him to make both of her dreams come true.
Foley by Michael West
Starring Geoff Adams
Directed by Aiden Flynn
Stage MAnager : Greg White
Foley is the last of his family, among the last Protestants in the Republic of Ireland, "the end point of all that evolution and fruitcake". He attempts to recall his life, to work out what went wrong along the way, why he's so fond of an old pair of shoes. Michael West's award-winning monologue Foley is a funny and moving exploration of what your family really passes on to you.