‘Extraordinary’ theatre comes to Leamington

This weekend (Friday November 2 to Sunday November 4), the Leamington-based company will perform Alan Rickman’s My Name is Rachel Corrie, a powerful and thought provoking piece based on the diaries, emails and lists of a committed and courageous idealist.

The play follows the story of Rachel Corrie - played by Leamington actress Zoe Faithfull - from a childhood in the United States with intelligent, liberal parents to her heroic, non violent resistance to a military occupation.

Audiences are given a portrait of this messy, skinny, articulate, Salvador Dalí loving chain smoker, who guards a passion for the music of Pat Benatar.

Director Greg Cole said: “It really is an extraordinary play that combines the comic with heart rending poignancy and words that continue to resonate across the world.”

By contrast Misery, based on the novel by Stephen King, which is taking the stage at Spencer Yard on Sunday November 18, is a dark and twisting tale that the Heartbreak team are promising will captivate and enthral audiences from beginning to end.

Made popular by the 1990 film, the play tells the story of popular romance novelist Paul Sheldon who withdraws to Colorado to write the final chapters of his successful ‘Misery Chastain’ series of novels.

Nicci Selby, Heartbreak’s publicity officer, said: “This stunning adaptation of the classic thriller is a theatrical tour de force with the power to take an audience through peaks and troughs of chilling drama to laugh out loud humour in equal measure gripping and touching, Misery is theatre at its best.”

Tickets for both shows cost £10 (£6 concessions). To find out more about these productions and other projects, workshops and events run by the company and to make bookings, call 430307 or go online.