New Plymouth Little Theatre – Breaking a leg since 1933!

Sylvia

By A. R. Gurney

DIRECTED BY Nicci Smith

March 31th to April 10th 2021

Show start: 7:30pm

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Sylvia is a story about a dog, the couple who adopts her, and the comedy about relationships, nature, and growing older that results.

“Give a dog a woman’s name and you begin to think of it as a woman.” And that is exactly what happens to Greg who brings a stray dog named Sylvia home from the park, fleas and all.

Lighting! You just wouldn’t believe how the dimmers worked. The dimmers in those days were large glass jars full of saline solution and they had metal plates… Evie Atkinson used to work them on strings. And they used to raise these out of the jars and the lights would dim.

Noel Baty

Describing the old primitive lighting

A good prompt will always know… usually you can tell by their eyes, because if someone really needs a prompt, the eyes go absolutely glazed and you can tell the stress…

If you prompt when they don’t want it – you are wrong. If you don’t prompt when they do want it – you are wrong. And if you do the job perfectly no one takes any notice of you and no one knows you are there, at all.