Make Way for Lucia The Rye Players 29/10/2009 As all devotees of Jane Austin et al know, and usually to their chagrin, an adaptation be it for play, for film, or for an extended television series, is almost calculated never to please – so you can, I’m sure understand, as I am Chair of the … Continue reading Rye Players Present Mapp & Lucia
Tag: E.F. Benson Society
E.F. Benson Society appears here as part of the magazine’s continuing record of local organisations, community effort and the people who kept things moving. Stories such as “Rye Players Present Mapp & Lucia”, “Twentieth Century Rye”, and “Make Way for Lucia” give the collection its range and its distinctly local texture. The result is less a formal history than a lively bundle of evidence, voices and remembered moments from the magazine’s pages.
Make Way for Lucia
After the triumphant sell-out success of ‘Allo ‘Allo! in July, the Rye Players’ Autumn production is Make Way for Lucia by John van Druten. This is a particularly appropriate production for the Society, as the play takes incidents from the novels concerning Mapp and Lucia written by E. F. Benson which are set in a … Continue reading Make Way for Lucia
Twentieth Century Rye
By Jim Hollands The Edwardian Era When Rye heralded in the 20th. century Frank Jarrett was the Mayor, as indeed he had been for the previous year and would be for 1901 but the man who was making the most impact at the time was surely the towns illustrious picture maker Mr. E. Whiteman. This … Continue reading Twentieth Century Rye