JANUARY 17TH TO 26TH
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
By Jane Austen
Adapted by Roger Parsley and Andy Graham
Left in straitened circumstances when their father dies, the Dashwood girls are forced to move to a Devon cottage, but Aunt Jennings is determined to find husbands for them in London.
Directed by: Roger Parsley
FEBRUARY 14TH TO 23RD
FUNNY MONEY
By Ray Cooney
It’s Henry’s birthday. He is late for his dinner with his wife and friends. He eventually arrives with a briefcase containing £735,000!! Hilarious innuendo and cruelly funny turns of fate ensue as two couples assume various identities in their battle to keep the stolen cash.
Directed by: Jude Wyatt
MARCH 13TH TO 22ND
ART
By Yasmina Reza Translated by Christopher Hampton
Serge has bought a modern painting for a huge sum of money. Marc hates it and cannot believe that a friend of his could want such a work. Yvan attempts to placate both sides. This dazzling comedy was the “Evening Standard Best Comedy of the Year 1996”.
Directed by: Peter Sowerbutts
APRIL 17TH TO 26TH
HAY FEVER
By Noel Coward
Coward’s evergreen 1920’s comedy about the wonderfully ultra-Bohemian Bliss family.
Directed by: Elva Pryal
MAY 15TH TO 24TH
CANTERBURY TALES THE MUSICAL
Based on a modern version by Nevill Coghill of Chaucer. Book by Martin Starkie and Nevill Coghill. Music by Richard Hill and John Hawkins with lyrics by Nevill Coghill and Martin Strakie
A musical, magical, medieval romp.
Directed by: Peter Sowerbutts
JUNE 19TH TO 28TH
TOP GIRLS
By Caryl Churhill
This play for sixteen women characters was first seen at the Royal Court. “The play is feminist all right, but is an entertaining, sometimes painful and often funny play and not a mere tract” Spectator
Directed by: Michelle Montague
JULY 17TH TO 26TH
TOM JONES
By Joan Macalpine from Henry Fielding
“Tom Jones” is rich, ripe and rowdy as Tom falls victim to the charms of 18th C wenches the length and breadth of the land.
Directed by: Peter Sowerbutts
AUGUST 21ST TO 30TH
WAIT UNTIL DARK
By Frederick Knott
A drug-filled doll has disappeared from a London flat and three petty crooks try to find it. The owner’s wife is blind. In a terrifying climax she makes full use of the fact that in the dark the blind have the advantage.
Directed by: Rhett Davies
SEPTEMBER 18TH TO 28TH
THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE
By Frank Marcus
Wonderful, 1960’s darkly comic play about an actress who has played the fictional character, Sister George, in a popular radio play over 2000 times. Her career becomes threatened by her private life.
Directed by: Rob Morris
OCTOBER 16TH TO 25TH
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
By Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildernstern sit in the court of Elsinore endlessly spinning a coin, waiting for their stage entry – which may never come…………….. A brilliant, literate, comedy.
Directed by Peter Sowerbutts
NOVEMBER 13TH TO 22ND
OF MICE AND MEN
By John Steinbeck
American play-writing at the highest level of achievement.
Directed by: Michael Stanislaw
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