The Power Behind the Crone – Celebrating Shakespeare’s Older Women!

FORGET the crone! Don’t miss this brilliant one-woman show 
by 5-star review-winning actress Alison Skilbeck!  It’s on at the 
Players Theatre, Thame, 7.45 pm, Sunday, November 10th! 
 
Alison plays Prof. Artemis Turret who sets out to prove there are 
first-class parts for older women in Shakespeare’s plays. Artemis does 
this by revealing her own amazing theatrical talents, playing seven superb 
Shakespearean roles for older women during the evening. 

The Power Behind the Crone opened the 2016 RADA Festival and played the Bloomsbury Festival. Alison’s one-woman shows have received great acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival, in London, and on tour throughout the UK. Other highly successful shows including Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London and Are There More of You? Television appearances include Midsomer Murders, The Beiderbecke Affair, Miss Marple, and Sherlock Holmes.

Alison is an actor, director, teacher, and trainer who combines a busy and varied career in theatre, on radio, and on television with teaching and directing. She is an Associate Teacher at RADA and has performed and taught Shakespeare at many American universities on tour with Actors from The London Stage, and at European universities on tour for the British Council.

Tickets £12 – from Spear Travels, Greyhound Walk, Thame, telephone 01844 217228, or online www.thameplayers.co.uk.