November 1, 2024

“You’ll Cry with Laughter” The Daily Mail

When her best friend Annie loses her husband to cancer, Northerner Chris cooks up a scheme to memorialize him in an unusual way. The two friends and their fellow WIs decide to make a “nude” “not naked” calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died, specifically to replace the old waiting room settee. However, the calendar becomes a global phenomenon, and the success soon drives a wedge between the two women's friendship. Will their friendship survive? Will they finally get their settee? Will the WI give their approval? Based on a real-life event, Calendar Girls brilliantly balances the poignant stories of several women told with bucket loads of quirky northern humour, as it hilariously follows the calendar's inception & execution, into the media explosion that followed, and subsequent consequences of instant fame. Ultimately, it is an uplifting tale of friendship, loyalty, camaraderie and love in all their glorious guises.  

Heartfelt Humour & Plenty of Buns!

TRINITY THEATRE, TUNBRIDGE WELLS

Box Office: www.trinitytheatre.net

This amateur production of Calendar Girls is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. On behalf of Samuel French. Based on the Miramax motion picture by Juliette Towhidi & Tim Firth

When?

26th February - 1st March 2025 at 7:30pm

Matinees Friday & Saturday at 2:30pm

Where?

Trinity Theatre, Church Road,
Tunbridge Wells

The Cast

Character

Actor

Carol

Carol Smith

Jennie

Jennie Tait

Angela

Angela Barolsky

Lucy

Lucy Lockwood

Celia

Louise Ball

Brenda

Fiona Grunwell

Lady C

Sarah Ward

Grumpy Caretaker

Simon Broderick-Ward

Elaine

April Stansfield

Rod

David Smith

John

Neill Mckenzie

Lawrence

Michael Sutherland

Marie

Jo Donelan

Chris

Diana Gillinder

Cora                  

Kate Marshall

Annie

Helen Cheales

Jessie          

Mary Alderson

Ruth

Fiona Young

Liam

Nick Wray

The Crew

Director

Helen Thorpe

Production Team


Stage Manager


Set design and build


Lighting Design


Sound Design


Wardrobe and Properties


Hair and make-up


Crew


Marketing and Publicity