Ruddigore floor rehearsals have started!

 

Floor rehearsals for our production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore have started and Rederring’s group of Professional Bridesmaids have been practicing their moves! 

 

Ruddigore runs from the 30th April to 3rd May at The Woodside Hall, Hitchin, the same venue where we performed our production of The Sorcerer, and we promise you plenty of melodrama and ghostly goings on. And Bridesmaids.

 

A little taster from the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive:

The Baronets of Ruddigore are cursed. Anyone who succeeds to the title has to commit a crime every day — or perish in inconceivable agony.

Robin Oakapple, a young farmer loves Rose Maybud, but both are too shy to tell the other. But Robin has a secret. He is really Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, the rightful Baronet of Ruddigore, in disguise. His younger brother, Despard, believing Ruthven to be dead, has assumed the title. Robin's foster brother, Richard, seeking Rose for himself, tells Despard of Robin's deception, and Robin is forced to accept his true position, losing Rose to Richard in the process.

Now the Baronet of Ruddigore, Robin is confronted by the he ghosts of his ancestors who step from their picture frames in the gallery of Ruddigore Castle to confront him for failing to conscientiously commit his daily crime. Robin eventually finds a way of satisfying his ancestors demands whilst continuing to live a blameless life...