Community Event / Theatre

Play reading group

Monday 13 May 2024

Unleash your inner thespian! Would you like to read a part in a play? Would you like to listen to a play being read aloud? All ages and backgrounds are welcome at our play reading group. Play titles are shared in advance. It's more fun than a Book Group with no homework to feel guilty about forgetting. This month's play is Sense and Sensibility, screen play adapted from Jane Austen’s novel by Emma Thompson.

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Starts 7:00 P.M.

Free entry

Free but ticketed

Book online at any time, at the Lyme Regis Bookshop and Bridport Tourist Information Centre during normal opening hours, the Marine on Monday and Friday mornings 10 – 1, and over the phone on 01308 424901

Unleash your inner thespian! Would you like to read a part in a play? Would you like to listen to a play being read aloud? All ages and backgrounds are welcome at our play reading group. Play titles are shared in advance. It's more fun than a Book Group with no homework to feel guilty about forgetting. This month's play is Sense and Sensibility, screen play adapted from Jane Austen’s novel by Emma Thompson.

Tickets are available for both readers and listeners.

Sense and Sensibility, screen play adapted from Jane Austen’s novel
by Emma Thompson

Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane
Austen’s 1811 novel of the same name. Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and starred
as Elinor Dashwood. The story follows the Dashwood sisters, members of a wealthy English
family of landed gentry, as they must deal with circumstances of sudden destitution. They
are forced to seek financial security through marriage. Others in the original cast include
Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman, so this is your big chance to take part in your
very own 1990s Chick Flick, with the added class of Jane Austen’s and Emma Thompson’s
writing.

A Message from the organiser Chris Gill

We have now established a tradition of reading a play once a month at the Marine Theatre, which is kindly providing the venue free to support community drama. We have a small group of regular attenders and we are always pleased to welcome new people, whether they want to read or just listen. The selection for April to June is varied and exciting as usual and driven by the suggestions of our regular attendees. If you want to go on our circulation list or have any questions about the meetings, please contact Chris Gill through the Marine Theatre.

Please remember to bring with you a paper or screen copy of the script if you wish to read. We are not able to provide copies.

This is a free but ticketed event.