Life And Beth by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Nikki Packham It’s Christmas, and Beth is mourning the recent death of her health and safety officer husband, Gordon. Beth’s sister-in-law Connie and son Martin have come to stay, determined to ensure that she should have a stress-free Christmas, but between Connie’s booziness and Martin’s unspeaking and…
Category: 2015 Past Productions
A Month of Sundays | 26th September – 1st October 2016
A Month of Sundays by Bob Larbey, directed by Janet Clark An amusing, uplifting and light-hearted play. The story revolves around two residents in a rest home: Cooper, who has voluntarily left his family to avoid the indignity of depending on them, and his friend Aylott. To manage the painful ritual of Sunday family visits and…
Ladies Day | 27th June – 2nd July 2016
Ladies’ Day by Amanda Whittington. Work, love and life are one hard slog – in this highly entertaining play – for the fish-filleting foursome of ladies. Their luck changes when Linda finds ticket to Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot – in York. Out go the hairnets and overalls as the girls do themselves up and…
Collaboration | 25th – 30th April 2016
Collaboration by Ronald Harwood This production was Theatre 62’s entry in the 2016 Bromley Theatre Guild Full Length Play Festival. It’s 1931 and composer Richard Strauss and novelist Stefan Zweig embark on a fruitful and invigorating partnership. But Zweig is Jewish and the Nazis are on the march, destroying the artistic culture he values so…
We’ll Always Have Paris | 22nd – 27th February 2016
We’ll Always Have Paris by Jill Hyem Three women of a ‘certain age’ gravitate to Paris. There’s Nancy, a retired headmistress determined to throw off the shackles; Anna, recently widowed – and free – after years of nursing a sick husband; and Raquel, a divorcee in search of eternal youth and a new toy boy….
A Christmas Carol | 7th – 12th December 2015
By Charles Dickens, adapted by John Mortimer. Directed by Patricia Melluish Scrooge has the darkest heart in London; a miser with a love for nothing except money. He is feared and despised until one Christmas Eve. Scrooge receives three spectral visitors, encounters the bleakest terror and the richest delight. He learns, at last, the true meaning…
Boeing Boeing | 28th September – 3rd October 2015
By Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverley Cross. Directed by Paul Marshall This is a 1960s French farce. Lothario Bernard has three fiancées – Gloria, Gabriella and Gretchen – each beautiful airline hostesses with frequent “layovers”. Bernard keeps “one up, one down and one pending” until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris and his apartment…
Honour | 29th June – 4th July 2015
Honour, by Joanna Murray-Smith. Directed by John Oakenfull George and Honor have been happily married for 32 years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Well, that is until a young female journalist assigned to “profile” George seeks to undermine that understanding. The fallout leads…
An Experiment with an Air Pump | 27th April – 2nd May 2015
By Shelagh Stephenson. Directed by Lorraine Spenceley This daring and thoughtful drama spans 200 years. It is 1799, the eve of a new century, the house buzzes with scientific experiments, furtive romance and farcical amateur dramatics. It is 1999 in a world of scientific chaos, cloning and genetic engineering; the cellar of the same house reveals…
Stepping Out | 23rd – 28th February 2015
By Richard Harris. Directed by Ray Harris. Theatre 62’s production was a sell-out. Tickets were snapped up over a week before opening night. Synopsis: Mavis is an ex-professional dance teacher who leads an evening class in tap dancing in a dingy church hall. Her classes are attended by seven women: there’s timid Dorothy, snobby Vera, shrewd…
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