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Eastern Angles return to the road
Fatal Attraction comes to Cambridge
In their 40th anniversary year, Eastern Angles are back doing what they do best this spring – touring across the East of England with a new play telling a regional story. This year’s show, Booming Voices, captures the magic of the Broads and explores its possible future. The tour runs from the April
Based on the Oscar-nominated classic motion picture Fatal
27th- June 12th, including special site-specific performances
Attraction, James Deardon’s intoxicating new stage
in Beccles and the chance to watch from home. The play uses
production comes to Cambridge Arts Theatre from April 25th-
the experience and voices of people living on the Broads to
30th. Starring Footballer’s Wives siren Susie Amy, as the
tell a new, unheard story of this iconic landscape. From a
iconic Alex Forrest, soap star favourite Oliver Farnworth
range of interviews, Ivan Cutting’s new play fuses real voices,
(Coronation Street) as Dan Gallagher and celebrated TV talent
science and nature to explore the past and question the
and performer Louise Redknapp (Eternal, Strictly Come
future. With the songs of acclaimed folk musician Jimmy
Dancing, Cabaret, 9 to 5) as Beth Gallagher, the play promises
Aldridge, and insights from figures who helped discover the
to thrill audiences. After a night of extra-marital passion, Dan
true nature of this wetland paradise, Booming Voices
returns home to his family and tries to forget his mistake. But
prepares us for the future and gives us hope. With
his lover Alex has different ideas. Dan’s about to discover that
performances across the East of England, Booming Voices is
love is a dangerous game. What happens when desire
sure to be at a theatre, community centre or village hall near
becomes deadly? www.cambridgeartstheatre.com
you this Spring. www.easternangles.co.uk
The Quay Sudbury: Gainsborough & The Modern Woman In 1760, Gainsborough painted a portrait of an extraordinary young woman, Ann Ford. Ann was a talented musician, twice arrested by her father to prevent her performing in public she went on to earn the princely sum of £1500, making her an independent woman. This play, coming to The Quay Theatre Sudbury on May 13th-14th, is about the making of this painting and the relationship between painter and subject. There are many local connections – notably with Gainsborough’s birthplace in Sudbury where his family worked in cloth. For this production, two of Sudbury’s present day silk weavers, Stephen Walters and Richard Matthews, are providing the silk for the dress and having it specially woven to match the design in the portrait. When displayed the portrait took Gainsborough’s world by storm. Prepared to break the rules about how a woman should be portrayed, it caused outrage but put a seal on Gainsborough’s growing reputation. The painting was kept by Ann Ford Thicknesse until her death in 1824 and kept in her family until it was sold at auction. It is now displayed at the Cincinnati Museum of Art who have kindly given permission to use the image. www.quaysudbury.com
