‘Miss Marple’ actress at Thame theatre

THAME Players will be presenting ‘ARE THERE MORE OF YOU?’ written and performed by actress, Alison Skilbeck, on Sunday, March 16, at 7.45pm.
Alison’s powerful piece is about Claire, Sophia, Sara and Sam ? four women on the verge of a nervous breakthrough; four women who rub shoulders ? linked only by a postcode. She has performed the piece all over the country to great acclaim. Playwright Alan Ayckbourn described it as ?Brilliantly observed, nicely comic characters all played to painful perfection. A wonderful evening.?
TV and theatre Director, David Tucker said: ?This is the best solo writing since Talking Heads.?

Alison Skilbeck?s long and busy career has included London?s West End and fringe, theatres all over the UK as well as many tours of Europe, the US and beyond. She began acting while at Oxford University. There she met Thame Players? patron, local actor Bruce Alexander, best known as Superintendent Mullett in Frost, and their enduring friendship ? both professional and personal ? began. They were in the Oxford revue at Edinburgh 40 years ago and their career paths have often crossed since then. In the cult TV series Head Over Heels in the early 90s they played husband and wife. Alison spent five years with Alan Ayckbourn in Scarborough where she created roles in Ayckbourn classics such as Just Between Ourselves, Joking Apart and Sisterly Feelings. She has played Pinter in Morocco, Havel in Hong Kong and Dryden (her own show with husband, Tim Hardy) in Spain. Her television parts includes leads in The Beiderbecke Affair, Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Head Over Heels and Soldier Soldier. She recently featured in He Knew He Was Right and New Tricks.

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