Talisman Theatre and Arts Centre
Barrow Road, Kenilworth CV8 1EG
Monday 20th - Saturday 25th May 2024
SHEILA'S ISLAND
Laughter at every missed turn!
by Tim Firth
Directed by Jill Laurie
A foggy bonfire night and four female executives are Team C in Pennine Mineral Water Ltd’s annual outward-bound team-building weekend.
Sheila has been nominated team leader and, using her cryptic crossword-solving skills, has unwittingly stranded her team on an island in the Lake District.
Wet, cold and hungry, the girls seek to survive by making weapons out of a bra and a spatula, and making a rescue flag with a plastic plate and a toasting fork.
The stresses bring out the best and the worst in them all; truths are told and dirty linen aired. What is Julie’s husband really doing in Aldi? How do you catch fish with a mobile phone that’s run out of battery? And why are they on this team-building course when they could be at a spa?
This amateur production of “Sheila’s Island” is presented by arrangement with Concord
Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk
Talisman Theatre and Arts Centre
Barrow Road, Kenilworth CV8 1FN
CAST & CREW
Cast
Sheila – Kim Arnold*
Denise – Katie-Anne Ray
Julie – Tina Shinkwin
Fay – Ruth MacCallum
Voice of DJ – Graham Buckingham-Underhill
Voice of karaoke singer – John Nichols
Voices of party-goers – Members of the Talisman Theatre and Arts Centre
Crew & Creatives
Director – Jill Laurie
Set Designer – John Ellam
Set Builders and Painters – Talisman set building team
Production Manager – Emi Burrows
Lighting Design and Operation – Katy Hawke
Sound Design and Operation – Colin Thomas
Props Manager – Jane Yates
Props Assistant – Rosalyn Forbes
Wardrobe – Saira Roper
Prompt – Susi Walker
Publicity – Kim Arnold and Sharon Sully
Photography – Robert Warner and Pete Weston
*The role of Sheila was read by Jill Laurie for the show run due to illness
DIRECTOR'S NOTES
More than 30 years ago, Tim Firth wrote a play called Neville’s Island, a story about four unfit, middle-aged businessmen on a team-building exercise in the Lake District getting shipwrecked on an island on Derwentwater. At the time he was in his twenties and says that, in those days, he probably couldn’t have imagined that women could behave as badly as the men in Neville’s Island. But when, a few years ago, someone suggested he wrote a version of the play for women, he realised that was a ridiculous and patronising idea. Consequently Sheila’s Island was born, and the result is a play that was originally billed as ‘The Office meets Lord of the Flies meets Miranda’! I do hope that you enjoy this journey as four fabulously talented women take to the Talisman stage.
Jill Laurie, Director
