Chance to see the stars of tomorrow (From Ludlow Advertiser)

Chance to see the stars of tomorrow

8:00am Saturday 27th June 2009

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MANY of today’s bestknown actors began their careers at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art – among them Jim Broadbent, Maureen Lipman, David Suchet and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Ludlow Assembly Rooms offers the chance to hear the stars of tomorrow as students of LAMDA’s three-year acting course perform a staged reading of John Bashford’s play The Hop Garden on Saturday.

The Hop Garden is set in 1964. Harold Wilson is the Labour candidate for Prime Minister, The Beatles have taken the charts by storm and the great train robbers have been sent down.

In London, mid-August, Mags gathers her sisters, brother and their families to ready themselves for a foray into the Kentish hop fields of their youth.

On the Ledbury Estate, the hops are ripe for picking, the motorways are coming and a way of life is drawing to an end.

The Hop Garden is a tender and poignant exploration of how families cope with a world that is rapidly changing and where the values of an older order are starting to be challenged by the new.

Tickets for the performance at 2.30pm are just £5 (£4 concessions).

To book, call the box office on 01584 878141.

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