Theatre 62
By David Williams, directed by Sandie Campbell As at 2022, this was Theatre 62’s last pantomime. CastDracula John OakenfullDame Plasma Howard JamesBuffy Vikki RedgraveFred Ian-Paul MundayRema Ruth AylwardDr Paul Bearer … Continue Reading Dracula The Panto | December 2009
By Noel Coward. Directed by John Heather. Coward wrote Blithe Spirit in 1941. The action takes place in the late 1930s in the living room of Charles Condomine’s House in … Continue Reading Blithe Spirit | October 2009
By Hugh Mills. Directed by Noel Rands. Family feuds, mistaken identity and true love abound when Mrs Fauntleroy attempts to enlighten her now 25 year old married son – the … Continue Reading Angels in Love | June 2009
By Peter Whelan. Directed by Eve Stone. The story of men from the industrial town of Accrington who enlisted for service in the First World War. They did not enlist for … Continue Reading The Accrington Pals | April 2009
By Stephen Bill. Directed by Muriel Kidd. A mother’s 86th birthday tea is a desperate affair. She is racked with pain and feels that she has lived too long, and … Continue Reading Curtains | February 2009
By Mark Brown. Directed by Janet Clark. The continuation of Dickens’s Christmas story sees Scrooge one year after he learned the lesson of goodwill to all. Now the setting is … Continue Reading The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge | December 2008
By Timberlake Wertenberger. Directed by Patricia Melluish. Set in Australia in the late 1780s, convicts are offered humanity by participating in the production of a play, ‘The Recruiting Officer’. The convicts … Continue Reading Our Country’s Good | October 2008
By Oscar Wilde. Directed by Paul Marshall. Worthing and Moncrieff invent the name Ernest for their alter egos. Worthing becomes Ernest when visiting Gwendolene in London, and Moncrieff when visiting … Continue Reading The Importance of Being Earnest | June 2008
By Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by John Oakenfull. Sasha’s chance meeting with a Father Christmas (a near hit-and-run victim) develops into a long, tender and increasingly sinister relationship. The awkward girl … Continue Reading Sugar Daddies | April 2008
By Arnold Ridley. Directed by Ray Harris. Six passengers stranded at a remote station of the South Cornwall Joint Railway decide to stay the night in the cheerless waiting room. … Continue Reading The Ghost Train | February 2008
By David Farr. Directed by Patricia Melluish. This is an imaginative portrayal of the Christmas story, which manages to combine the simplicity of the well-known Christmas tale, with stories from the … Continue Reading The Nativity | December 2007
By Charlotte Jones. Directed by Howard James. Unified Field research fellow, Felix Humble, returns from Cambridge to his middle England home following the sudden death of his father. However, he … Continue Reading Humble Boy | October 2007
By Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft. Directed by Jon Clark. Based on the long-running BBC Television comedy series, ‘Allo ‘Allo follows the adventures of Rene, a cafe owner in the occupied French town … Continue Reading ‘Allo ‘Allo | June 2007
By Helene Hanff. Directed by Bill Morley. Helene Hanff in New York writes witty letters to a bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road, London, enquiring about second hand books. Replies are … Continue Reading 84 Charing Cross Road | April 2007
By Wilkie Collins, adapted by Constance Cox. Directed by Rene Hughes. This production of The Woman in White was adapted by Constance Cox from Wilkie Collins’ 1860 novel. The story is … Continue Reading The Woman In White | February 2007
By Jackie Staite. Directed by Eve Stone. Cinderella – The Sequel or How I Ran Away to Join a Pirate Ship and Found True Happiness. After the traditional story of … Continue Reading Cinderella The Sequel | December 2006
celebrating 60 years in 2022 