Ian Gower

Sep 14, 2024 | stagewhispers.com.au | Ian Gower |Richard Curtis

It’s never easy directing – or acting in – a play based on a television series, especially when the characters are so well-known and quirky, and the play requires two sets used alternatively scene after scene! It works in film, but it’s darn hard in live theatre, especially when one character is required to move between scenes constantly! Director Rhonda Hancock admits the “staging was not without difficulties” siting multiple costume changes denoting the passage of time as an example, but...

Oct 7, 2023 | stagewhispers.com.au | Richard Curtis |Ian Gower

Tea Tree Players presented The Vicar of Dibley last year with a sell out season, so it makes perfect sense to present its sequel, A Vicar of Dibley Christmas: The Second Coming this year, reprising the original cast. The play is based on the episodes "Dibley Live" and "Winter", in which the villagers set up a radio station and put on a nativity play at Owen's farm.