Season 2023-2024
Season 2024-2025
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Dear Lupin
by Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer Adapted by Michael Simkins Directed by Jon Walker Evenings: 21st & 23rd to 28th September - 7:30pm Matinees: 22nd & 28th September - 2:30pm Michael Simkins' immensely charming stage adaptation of Dear Lupin, the witty and touching collection of letters from a father to his son that became a huge bestseller, winner of The Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year. |
Roger Mortimer's hilarious, touching, and always generous letters to his son, Charlie, are packed with crisp anecdotes and sharp observations. Spanning twenty-five years, their correspondence forms a memoir of their relationship, and an affectionate portrait of a time gone by.
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Juno and the Paycock
by Sean O'Casey Directed by John Cunningham Evenings: 16th & 18th to 23rd November - 7:30pm Matinees: 17th & 23rd November - 2:30pm Juno and the Paycock tells the story of the Boyle family in the grim slums of Dublin in the early 1920s. Juno, the mother of the family (and the only member who works), desperately tries to hold her family together in the face of adversity and misfortune. However, her husband, Jack Boyle, would rather spend his time drinking with his persuasive pal, Joxer, than try to look for work and help the family. |
When Jack learns that the family is to come into an inheritance, he eagerly anticipates their new found wealth and borrows money from everyone around him to flaunt their new incoming fortune...
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It's A Wonderful Life
Adapted by Mary Elliott Nelson Directed by Andrew Close Evenings: 18th & 20th to 25th January 2025 - 7:30pm Matinees: 19th & 25th January 2025 - 2:30pm Adapted from the classic film, this is the saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been squashed by family obligations and civic duty, and whose guardian angel has to descend on Christmas Eve to save him from despair, and to remind him – by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born – that he has had, after all, a wonderful life. |
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The Thrill of Love
by Amanda Whittington Directed by Peter Scofield Evenings: 15th & 17th to 22nd March 2025 - 7:30pm Matinees: 16th & 22nd March 2025 - 2:30pm Amanda Whittington's play dramatises the true story of Ruth Ellis, who was the last woman to be hanged in Britain. 2025 marks the 70th anniversary of her execution at Holloway Prison, but the notoriety of her case, the public outcry over her judicial killing and its influence on the decision to abolish hanging ten years later, mean that her fate has never been forgotten. |
On 10th April 1955 Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely, outside a public house in Hampstead. At her trial, only two months later, she pleaded 'not guilty'...
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Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw Directed by Natalie Crompton Evenings: 10th & 12th to 17th May 2025 - 7:30pm Matinees: 11th & 17th May 2025 - 2:30pm One rainy, London night, phonetics professor Henry Higgins takes in a flower girl named Eliza Doolittle in an effort to win a bet with Colonel Pickering, an expert in Indian dialects. He bets Pickering that he can teach Eliza elocution and pass her off as a lady to all of London society. |
Despite many reservations and objections Eliza ultimately agrees to their experiment. Over the course of her education, Eliza’s father, Alfred Doolittle takes his chances with Higgins for money, but this backfires when he unwillingly becomes a well-off, middle-class gentleman thanks to Higgin’s connections with a rich philanthropist. Eliza turns out to be an apt student and easily convinces the ladies at a garden party that she is a mysterious duchess. Despite her success, Higgins is pompous about his efforts and never truly thinks of Eliza as a lady or his social equal after her stunning transformation. With a proposal from the besotted Freddy Eynsford-Hill lingering in the air, Eliza leaves Higgins to seek her own future.
