The Flint Street Nativity | 1st – 6th December 2014

The seasonal comedy drama: The Flint Street Nativity by Tim Firth, directed by Pieter Swinge. Miss Horrocks’ class of seven year-olds are preparing for their school nativity play, but in the classroom because the school hall hasn’t been finished as the builders discovered an endangered species of great crested newt. The children run wild, with…

Dangerous Obsession | 29 Sept – 4 Oct 2014

Dangerous Obsession by N.J. Crisp, directed by Patricia Melluish Sally has been sunbathing in the garden of her large country home.  An acquaintance, John, stops by. Sally doesn’t really remember him, but he ingratiates his way in. John lets Sally talk herself into thinking he is there to discuss a business proposition with her husband Mark who “is…

The Tempest | 7th – 12th July 2014

King Alonso of Naples and his entourage sail home for Italy after attending his daughter’s wedding in Africa. They encounter a violent storm – a Tempest – and are washed ashore on a strange island inhabited by the magician Prospero who deliberately conjured up the storm. Prospero and Miranda live in a cave on the…

Elephants Don’t Run | 7th – 12th April 2014

By Trevor Smith. Directed by Sandie Campbell. Photos below. Lily, a widow, is in hospital suffering from a number of psychological illnesses including dementia. Her daughter Debra has been caring for Lily for the last twenty years. Out of the blue Lily is visited by her other daughter, Megan, whom no-one has seen for twenty years. Why has she suddenly appeared?…

My Boy Jack | 17th – 22nd February 2014

By David Haig Directed by Caryl Rapps “Don’t tell me he was lucky! He wasn’t lucky, or…or brave, or happy! Jack was eighteen years and six weeks old! He died in the rain, he couldn’t see a thing, he was alone! You can’t persuade me that there’s any glory in that!” So says Carrie Kipling,…

Season’s Greetings | 2nd – 7th December 2013

By Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by Paul Marshall. Enjoy watching family and friends celebrate Christmas for the umpteenth consecutive year. Except not all is peace and harmony as the cracks quickly start to emerge. Featuring the annual, excruciating, puppet show, drunken snakes and ladders, the rifling of Christmas presents – and that’s just the start. Join us for this comedy….

The Beauty Queen of Leenane | 30th September – 5th October 2013

by Martin McDonagh. Directed by Janet Clark. The Beauty Queen of Leenane is set in the mountains of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. The play is a blend of hysterical comedy, grand melodrama, violence and bleak tragedy.  It tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her…

Calendar Girls | 17th – 22nd June 2013

By Tim Firth. Directed by Howard James When Annie’s husband John dies of leukaemia, she and her best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade other members of the W.I. to pose nude for an alternative calendar with help from the hospital…

When We Are Married | 22-27 April 2013

by J.B.Priestley. Directed by Alice London. When We Are Married sees three couples who were married on the same day, at the same church, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversaries. The couples have positions in society and a public image to maintain. The husbands are leading members of the local non-conformist chapel and two of them have…

In Two Minds | 18 – 23 February 2013

In Two Minds by Richard Harris. Director Eve Stone.  Theatre 62’s entry for the Bromley Theatre Guil Full Length Play Festival 2013. Set in the present day, divorced go-ahead bookseller David is moving into a new home in outer London with his partner Annie. Strange events cast a shadow over their new home and cause David’s…