Theatre 62, Wickham Theatre Centre
Theatre 62
by Liz Lochhead, directed by John Oakenfull. Production dates: 3th-8th December 2012. This is a poignant, hilarious, “Cinderella story” with a lot to say about love the second time around. … Continue Reading Good Things | 3 – 8 December 2012
By William Shakespeare. Directed by Patricia Melluish. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most delightful and well known comedies. It is a play of such lightness and joy, … Continue Reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 1 – 6 October 2012
By Tennessee Williams. Directed by Paul Marshall. Tom brings a work colleague, Jim, to meet Amanda, his mother and former ‘Southern Belle’, and Laura, his insecure and slightly crippled sister who … Continue Reading The Glass Menagerie | 25 – 30 June 2012
By Dylan Thomas. Directed by John Heather. A narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of an imaginary small Welsh village, Llareggub. … Continue Reading Under Milk Wood | 30 April – 5 May 2012
by Charles Dickens, adapted by Hugh Leonard, directed by Rosemary Harris. This play is based on the penultimate novel of one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, Charles … Continue Reading Great Expectations | 27 February – 3 March 2012
By Willy Russell, directed by Sandie Campbell On the evening of his birthday Dennis is making a last ditch attempt to break away from the confines of middle-class existence. Imprisoned … Continue Reading One for the Road | 5th – 10th December 2011
By Brian Friel, directed by Janet Clark Dancing at Lughnasa, by Brian Friel, one of Ireland’s most important playwrights, was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, in Dublin, in 1990, … Continue Reading Dancing at Lughnasa | 3rd-8th October 2011
by Terence Rattigan, directed by Muriel Kidd Rattigan’s exquisitely crafted piece is set in a bleak 1951 London. Six years have passed since the end of World War II, but … Continue Reading The Deep Blue Sea | 20th – 25th June 2011
By Derek Benfield, directed by Susan Adam. When Chief Constable Henry Potterton arrives at the peaceful country house of his late brother Bernard he is astonished to find several scantily … Continue Reading Flying Feathers | 11th-16th April 2011
by Ned Hopkins, directed by John Oakenfull We meet again Cecily and Gwendolen who got married in 1895 at the end of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. This new … Continue Reading Earnest Endeavours | 14th – 19th February 2011
By Sam and Bella Spewack, directed by Ray Harris. It’s Christmas in a small settlement in French Guiana, one hundred years ago. The Dulay family run the general store, but … Continue Reading My Three Angels | 6th-8th January 2011
by Helen Edmundson, directed by Patricia Melluish. The Clearing takes us to the seventeenth century. The Irish people are being forcibly moved off their land as a result of Cromwell’s … Continue Reading The Clearing | October 2010
By Simon Mendez Da Costa. Directed by Howard James. It is the day of the funeral of Louis, and his two middle-aged sons are back in the family home with … Continue Reading Losing Louis | June 2010
By Enid Bagnold, directed by Rene Hughes Elderly Mrs St. Maugham is now living in her country manor house with her young granddaughter Laurel. Laurel is estranged from her mother, … Continue Reading The Chalk Garden | April 2010
By Philip King, directed by Paul Marshall This play is fast, fun and furious, using stock elements of farce – a bishop, a repressed spinster and loss of trousers. It … Continue Reading See How They Run | February 2010
