01 December 2024
10:30 | 
Posted by
Dr Platts |
David Flint – Actor
David toured with The National Youth Theatre in Coriolanus and was in their London production of Zigger Zagger in 1969. David’s Shakespearian roles include Petruchio, Macbeth, Bottom, Puck, Feste, Mr Ford (Merry Wives of Windsor), Lorenzo (Merchant of Venice) and Lucio (Measure for Measure). He has appeared in venues as diverse as The Ruhrfestspielhouse in Germany, The Roman Amphitheatre of Curium in Cyprus, Polesden Lacey Open Air Theatre, and a variety of theatres in the UK. David directed Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Theatre Royal Lincoln and Merry Wives at the Pavilion Theatre, Felixstowe. He won best actor awards as Ken Harrison in Whose Life is it Anyway and Danny in Night must Fall. Over 40 years he has performed in many of Gillian Plowman’s plays.
In 2014 he appeared in the Selsey Pavilion as the Colonel in The End of the Journey and in 2015 he created the role of the 70 year-old Chaplin in Tonight in the Pavilion – Charlie Chaplin, reprising this in the acclaimed 2016 London run of the Selsey production. David played Jeremy in 2017’s The Ox and the Ass and Jon in Beata Beatrix. He was well cast as the short dumpy Trotter in Journey's End, a 2018 Arts Dream production to mark the centenary of the end of World War I. He has continued his association with Arts Dream Selsey, appearing in the recent series of radio plays, memorably as Johnnie in One Last Adventure.
Gillian Plowman – Director
Gillian won the Verity Bargate award in 1988 with Me and My Friend, a poignantly funny play about the release of four patients from a psychiatric hospital into the community. It was first produced at the Soho Poly Theatre in 1990 and at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 1992, directed by Ian Rickson.
The Purity Game formed part of the opening season of Chichester`s Minerva Theatre Studio in 1989. Storm was produced in Hastings and London’s Soho theatre by Freehand Theatre Company in 2001.
Radio plays for the BBC include The Wooden Pear in 1991 starring Anna Massey, Philip and Rowena in 1993 with Leslie Phillips and Renee Asherson, A Sea Change in 1995 with Jenny Funnell and David's Birthday in 2000 with Amanda Root and Clare Holman. Boniface and Me, a radio version of Yours Abundantly from Zimbabwe was broadcast in December 2007, the first in a trilogy of radio plays featuring Dame Harriet Walter. (Gracey and Me was broadcast in 2010 and Loveness and Me in 2012)
Yours Abundantly from Zimbabwe, directed by Annie Castledine, was produced at the Oval House Theatre, London, during Black History Month, October 2008 and was featured in Plays for Today by Women, published by Aurora Metro Books in 2013. Crooked Wood was produced at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in September 2008 and was published by Oberon Books. Other plays can be licensed from
https://www.concordtheatricals.co.uk/search?author=Gillian%20Plowman
A film script Daisyworld was commissioned by Paramount Pictures.
The End of the Journey, Gillian’s full-length play, linked to the start of WW1 was produced in the Pavilion Theatre in Selsey in August 2014, a first production in the near derelict building for over fifty years. Tonight in the Pavilion –Charlie Chaplin was produced there in 2015 and transferred to The Cinema Museum in London in 2016. Tonight in the Pavilion – Laurel and Hardy was produced in the Pavilion Selsey in May 2016, The Ox and the Ass and Spindrift in 2017 and Touching Tomorrow and Beata Beatrix in 2018. The Gillian directed Journey’s End by R C Sherriff in the Pavilion in October 2018, as part of Selsey’s commemoration of the centenary of the Armistice.
You can get your tickets by accessing the Arts Dream Selsey website or using the sign up sheet at the back of the church. This is an intimate one-man show and seating is limited.
A reading from the book of the prophet Jeremiah.
The days are surely coming, says the Lord,
when I will fulfil the promise
I made to the house of Israel
and the house of Judah.
In those days and at that time
I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David;
and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
In those days Judah will be saved
and Jerusalem will live in safety.
And this is the name by which it will be called:
‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
A reading from the first letter of Paul to the Thessalonians.
How can we thank God enough for you
in return for all the joy that we feel before our God because of you?
Night and day we pray most earnestly
that we may see you face to face
and restore whatever is lacking in your faith.
Now may our God and Father himself
and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you.
And may the Lord make you increase
and abound in love for one another and for all,
just as we abound in love for you.
And may he so strengthen your hearts in holiness
that you may be blameless before our God and Father
at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
Luke 21:25-26
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars,
and on the earth distress among nations
confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves.
People will faint from fear and foreboding
of what is coming upon the world,
for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Then they will see “the Son of Man coming in a cloud”
with power and great glory.
Now when these things begin to take place,
stand up and raise your heads,
because your redemption is drawing near.’
Then he told them a parable:
‘Look at the fig tree and all the trees;
as soon as they sprout leaves
you can see for yourselves and know that summer is already near.
So also, when you see these things taking place,
you know that the kingdom of God is near.
Truly I tell you,
this generation will not pass away
until all things have taken place.
Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will not pass away.
Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down
with dissipation and drunkenness
and the worries of this life,
and that day does not catch you unexpectedly, like a trap.
For it will come upon all who live on the face of the whole earth.
Be alert at all times,
praying that you may have the strength
to escape all these things that will take place,
and to stand before the Son of Man.’
