Opening
6th February
By Patrick Ness, Adam Peck & Siobhan Dowd
If I’m not going to get them out now… when am I?
Charity performances on 3rd and 4th May for Blood Cancer UK and the Jessica Brady CEDAR Trust (Cancer, Early Diagnosis, Awareness, Research).
This amateur production of "Calendar Girls" is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd.on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk.
Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre and has since become the fastest-selling play in British theatre history.
The story of the calendar girls swept the whole world up in 1999-2000, when their ‘nude’ photos appeared in what was then known as ‘the 2000 Alternative WI Calendar’. It was released on 12th April 1999 and became a runaway success, selling out in the first week. Calendar Girls was inspired by the death of Angela Baker’s husband John, who died from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 54 in 1998. During his illness, John’s friends began to raise money, initially with the aim of purchasing a sofa for the visitors’ lounge in the hospital where John was treated. Nothing could have prepared them for the way their original calendar took off.
To date, they’ve raised over £5 million for blood cancer research.
The story is heart-warming, joyful and raw. Friendships are tested and bonds are strengthened. The whole play is about embracing all women regardless of age, ethnicity or size. A true celebration of women, by women, for everyone.
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