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Airport Tales

A comedy by Carol Libman
Friday 17 May 2019 - Saturday 18 May 2019
Buscot Park Theatre, Lechlade Road, Buscot SN7 8BU
Directed by Darka Makarec for GLT
Producer: Gary Field for FDS

Performances start 7:30 pm. Doors open 30 minutes earlier.
Tickets: £10. No concessions. A drink is included. Tickets were available from our Online Box Office.
Buscot Park will be open to theatre-goers from 6:30pm. Picnics welcome. Seating is limited to 50 per night so please book your seats early; consequently on Wednesday 15th May there will also be a special performance for FDS members and their families only.

Airport Tales 2019 Photo

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Produced in collaboration with the Garrison Little Theatre from Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada. GLT will have already completed five performances of this play in Fort Erie during April, before coming to us. The writer of ‘Airport Tales’, Carol Libman is originally from Montreal and now living in Toronto.

Airport Tales‘ is a light-hearted, entertaining, funny and above all human onstage “Road Movie” … at 30,000 feet. The indomitable Evalina, journeying back to the old homestead to celebrate her 90th birthday, battles and conquers all the security checks, seat-mate problems, lost luggage and a somewhat fraught family reunion.

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Photos copied from Facebook so not best quality or size

GLT first came to Faringdon in September 2007 to perform ‘Lend Me a Tenor‘. Then again in October 2011 to perform a joint production of ‘London Suite‘, followed by ‘Office Hours’ in May 2015. We are looking forward to meeting them again this year for a fourth time.


Production No.195 (2 shows were performed over 2 days). An amateur production presented by arrangement with Rare Day Projects. www.raredayprojects.com


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                    [re_review_title] => Tony Houghton from Witney
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                    [re_review_content] => We thoroughly enjoyed this play: great choice to bring over from Canada as we were unlikely to have encountered it otherwise. Tightly and incitefully written work. Up to date. Excellent casting. Good acting – in this little theatre and with close up audience actors have no where to hide – it has to be complete performance to be believable and it very much was. Thanks to the cast and support for bringing it over from Ontario. Come again!
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                    [re_review_subtitle] => Charming!
                    [re_review_content] => We thoroughly enjoyed “Airport Tales”, which was the perfect “size” play for Buscot Theatre. Really impressed by Evalina’s memory of a long script. Loved the ‘journey’ of her character from a suspicious, ungracious and rather lonely old lady to someone who understood that family does matter and who could accept kindness towards her. Her relationships with Carly and Roger were also delightful.
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The venue is excellent and the performance benefited from the intimate atmosphere.
All in all a great advert for 'amdram' – the evening was much enjoyed.

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