August 2019
An Inspector Calls
In April 1912, wealth mill-owner and politician Arthur Birling and his family are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, the son of a competitor. Arthur’s son Eric, has an obvious drinking problem. After dinner, Arthur speaks about the importance of self-reliance, his approaching knighthood, and about how "a man has to look after himself and his own." Inspector Goole arrives, interrupting the evening and proceeds to make a number of assertions about the actions of various…
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Look Back In Anger
It is 1950’s Britain and working class, underemployed Jimmy Porter is angry and frustrated at society’s entrenched class consciousness, which he believes denies him opportunity and dignity. Despite the disapproval by his upper-middle class parents-in-law towards his marriage to their daughter Alison, Jimmy lives a volatile existence with her in a rundown boarding house. Workmate and fellow tenant, Jimmy’s Welsh friend Cliff often acts as the couple’s peacemaker. With the arrival of Alison’s sophisticated friend Helena, explosive and life-changing events…
Find out more »September 2019
In The Heights
Hailed as a revolutionary musical, In the Heights combines Latin rhythms with modern hip hop lyrics to tell the story of a community’s struggle to find its sense of identity against a backdrop of rising rents, racism and human endeavours of lust and love.
Find out more »October 2019
One For The Pot
Written By: Ray Cooney (with Tony Hilton) Directed By: Sue Wylie It shouldn’t be hard to give a pot of money away. In this case, in the 1960s, £10,000 is a fairly big pot. Our hardworking, and rich, hero (Jonathon Hardcastle) wants to give it to the son of his deceased best friend. The problem is that Hardcastle doesn’t know his friend had four sons – and that they were identical quadruplets – and he didn’t expect all four men…
Find out more »November 2019
A Christmas Carol
It wouldn’t be Christmas without A Christmas Carol. In this new stage version, Patrick Barlow takes Charles Dickens’ classic story of greed, grief, ghoulish ghosts and eleventh-hour redemption, and makes it feel brand new again.
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