With 430 resident Paulines the College boasts two theatrical troupes: Mummers, founded in 1948 by the then Warden Felix Arnott, and The Impresario Players, founded in 2018 by Graduate House Dean Antone Martinho-Truswell.
The new Waddy Theatre provides a remarkable facility at St Paul’s for the rehearsing and staging of a variety of performances. Mummers have already set a ‘high bar’ with their Semester 1 play “Black Comedy” by Peter Shaffer and they are maintaining their excellence preparing a large cast for “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] {Revised Again} and Rewritten” by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield. The production is directed by Ryan Bond.
Friday 25 and Saturday 26 at 7.30 pm and Sunday 27 October at 4.30 pm (doors open 30 minutes beforehand for bar sales) in the Waddy Theatre.
“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] {Revised Again} and Rewritten” was originally performed by its creators Adam Long (UK), Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield (USA), at the 1987 Edinburgh Fringe. Being a ‘hit’ it remains the second longest-running West End comedy in history and has been translated into over thirty languages. It is described as a vaudeville show in which three charismatic, ambitious actors attempt to present all thirty-seven of Shakespeare’s plays in a single performance. Get ready for a hilarious time as the players make a meal out of the rudimentary concept of the stories and imperfectly memorized famous lines (source: Google Books).
Expect a rollicking night out (or in)!
