Theatre and drama group based in Marlborough, Wiltshire

The Marlborough Players organise and arrange the following activities:

• Public performances of plays
• Play readings
• Theatrical skills training

We hold performances and meetings in Marlborough on a regular basis. 

New members are welcome to all of our events. For more information, please email info@marlboroughplayers.co.uk.

 OUR NEXT SHOW:

The Marlborough Players

PROUDLY PRESENT

Christopher Hampton's comedy

'The Philanthropist'
Directed by Sue Baxter

Wednesday 26th, Thursday 27th, and Friday 28th November

 
The play takes a satirical look at love and betrayals among the urbane and witty classes of 1970. It is set in the comfortable lodgings of Oxford philology don Philip. Inexplicably (to him) he is engaged to a lovely postgraduate student, and the first major scene of the play shows them entertaining friends among the faculty and students, along with a visiting popular novelist. The play captures perfectly the mix of genteel wit and veiled backbiting that characterises such encounters, and it is easy to enjoy the play entirely on that level. However, when a comical string of post-party musical beds threatens his engagement, Philip is forced to acknowledge that his indiscriminate friendliness is the product of a deep loneliness and insufficiency in himself, and then to face the prospect of carrying on now that he has looked that demon in the eye.

TICKETS ONLY £6.00 - AVAILABLE FROM THE WHITE HORSE BOOKSHOP