Past Productions
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Are You Being Served - April 2019
A comedy by Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft After the motley crew of the Grace Brothers department store prepare for the sale of German goods Grace Brothers' requires renovation. To compensate for time off work, Young Mr Grace sends the staff of the Men's and Women's Department on a two-week holiday to the fictional Spanish resort town of Costa Plonka. The wife of Captain Peacock won't be joining them, and Mrs Slocombe sees an opportunity to seduce him. She is as oblivious as ever to the fact that Captain Peacock has his eye – or rather both eyes – on Miss Brahms, the attractive young Women’s-wear junior. Miss Brahms has known of his plans all along, and deflects each advance with ease. The staff find, to their chagrin, that because of a booking mix-up their hotel has no rooms available, and they are forced to sleep in tents. The single public bathroom only has a lock on the outside, and that the local custom is to sing a song while you are using it to let others know of its occupation. This causes a problem for Mr Grainger, who after a local meal states, "Many more dinners like that, and I shall have to learn a longer song!" Dinnertime proves to be very eventful, as many of the staff take the opportunity to pass naughty notes to each other. Few of the notes reach their intended recipient. Chaos ensues when Mrs Slocombe receives a note, presuming it to be from Captain Peacock, when really it was from Mr Lucas to Miss Brahms. Mr Humphries is popular with the girls – and the men. He receives the advances of Conchita, a señorita working at the hotel. She frequents Mr Humphries' tent at night, with the hopes that he will "make her happy". The holidaymakers then find themselves in the middle of a revolution and are confined to their hotel during the uprising. |
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Blackadder Goes Forth - Nov 2018
A comedy by Richard Curtis & Ben Elton It is 1917, and lunatic General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett is leading the British troops at the front lines against the Germans, while everyone waits for Field Marshall Haig's big push. There are various emotions throughout the camp about it. For Captain Kevin Darling, Melchett's bull-dog-like right-hand man, it makes no difference, as it appears he will be safe and sound with the general when the big push occurs. For Lieutenant George Colhurst Saint Barleigh, he is overly excited at thrashing the Germans. For Private S. (probably for Sod-Off) Baldrick, it's a terrifying experience he is not looking forward to. For Captain Edmund Blackadder, however, it's something he's too cowardly too face. Self-centered, arrogant, and sarcastic, Blackadder is always constantly searching for a way out of this silly war, and will try various, often crazy, variations on escape, all of which will take a turn he never expected. Sharing a dugout with George and Baldrick, his main obstacle for escape is Darling, who will ensure everyone is present for the big push. |
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A Bunch of Amateurs - April 2018
A comedy by Ian Hislop & Nick Newman Keen to boost his flagging career, fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steele arrives in England to play King Lear in Stratford – only to find that this is not the birthplace of the Bard, but a sleepy Suffolk village and instead of Sir Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench, the cast are a bunch of amateurs trying to save their theatre from developers. Jefferson’s monstrous ego, vanity and insecurity are tested to the limit by the enthusiastic am-dram thespians. As acting worlds collide and Jefferson’s career implodes, he discovers some truths about himself – along with his inner Lear! |
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The Chalk Garden - Oct 2017
A drama / mystery by Enid Bagnold A woman applies as a governess to a household of position in the country in England. She is interviewed by her employer, an old, over-powering, once-beautiful ex-hostess of London society. She is engaged (without references) to look after the granddaughter, whose mother has married again, and who leads her grandmother by the nose and exploits her caprices and her leaning towards Freudian explanations. The grandmother gardens - feverishly and ignorantly - as an escape from old age. The man-servant is a classless, ageless man, unhappy with life but with a "passion for the Right." He in turn is exploited by the grandmother and the granddaughter. Over the premises, unseen and chained by a stroke upstairs, there broods the evil influence and faded grandeur of the butler who has known all the magnificence of his employer's life in London. The Applicant - the "governess' - has done a life-sentence for murder and has only recently come out of prison. This fact swells like a mushroom cloud all through the play, and the cloud develops flames within it when the judge who once sentenced her comes to lunch. |
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The Break Away - April 2017
A comedy by Jack Williams This fast-paced comedy is set in 1988. Ronnie runs a guest house in a village near Plymouth, with lazy stepsister, Heather. She drops a bombshell that a hotel inspector is due any minute. Two different couples arrive, who both sign in with alias names. The hotel inspector turns up undercover as a guest and then an undercover police inspector arrives looking for a couple, who have kidnapped a dog from a famous actor. The policeman suspects that they are staying there. It becomes apparent that both couples have smuggled a dog in. Chaos ensues for Ronnie and Heather, as they now have, two dogs, two inspectors and two very odd and suspicious couples. |
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The Reunion - October 2016 A comedy by Peter Gordon The reunion is brought together in the back room of a pub set in the present day. Nigel has arranged the get-together and he is optimistic of a good turnout. Whilst the numbers disappoint him, he soon has his hands full when his three friends arrive with their partners. Prejudices and resentment that have simmered for the last twenty-five years gradually unfold as the evening wears on. |
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Blithe Spirit - April 2016
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Jack and the Beanstalk - January 2014A pantomime by Jeanette Simmons
This pantomime, adapted from the original story by Jeanette Simmons, describes the events of a poor family which have the brokers in to remove their belongings. They decide to sell their cow to make some money in the hope of buying her back later but the villain buying the cow gives Jack, Dame Dolly's son, a bag of beans instead of gold. Dame Dolly throws the beans away in disgust but they begin to grow. One plant grows so tall that it reaches into the clouds to the castle of a giant. Jack climbs the beanstalk, steals the giant's gold and then climbs down to the bottom. The giant tries to follow but when climbing down, Jack cuts down the beanstalk and the giant meets a sticky end. Guess what? Everyone lives happily ever after. |
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A Man for All Seasons - October 2013A drama by Robert Bolt
This production charts the life of Sir Thomas more during the years when Henry VIII wished to divorce Catherine of Aragon and Marry Anne Boleyn. Divorce was not permitted for Catholics and so Henry determined that he would introduce a new act in parliament, the Act of Succession, to enable him to be head of the church in England and thus not have to follow the Catholic law. This, of course, did cost Henry a great deal of money, some would consider a bribe, but also cost Sir Thomas More his life as he was unable to agree with Henry that he could sever the connection with Rome as he felt that marriage was subject to a spiritual supremacy and it was not within the rights of Kings to alter that. |
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Dad's Army - April 2013
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Dick Whittington - January 2013
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The Birds, The Bees & Therapy - October 2012
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Enter A Free Man - April 2012
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Cinderella - January 2012
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night - October 2011
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My Blessed Uncle - April 2011
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And Evermore Shall Be So - October 2010
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The Diary of Anne Frank - April 2010
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Caught in the Net - October 2009
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'Allo 'Allo - April 2009
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Prescription for Murder - October 2008
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3 for 1 - April 2008
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