World premiere of play written by local playwrite – Stanley Lodge.
Category: Drama

The Man Who Noticed Such Things
A selection of scenes, sketches and music to celebrate the life, times and achievements of Thomas Hardy.

Death and the Maiden
The events of the past are brought to life in Gorse Cottage when, after twenty years abroad, Mrs Bell’s daughter Sylvia returns to visit her mother and spinster sister, Mavis.

Larkrise
Larkrise depicts the lives of a small rural community in Oxfordshire from a harvest day in the late 19th century up to calling the names of the village dead in the First World War.

Pack of Lies
All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks the Jackson family to use their house as an observation station to try and foil a Soviet spy ring operating in the area.

Martyred Wives
Most people have heard of the Tolpuddle Martyrs of 1834, but what of their wives, the women behind the men in that troubled strife? This is the story of those women.

Quiet Weekend
Mildred and Arthur Royd, Marcia’s parents, own a country cottage intended for quiet week-ends. It does not, however, work out that way on some occasions.

Nightwatch
Knave, Nuns and Nourishment was held as a charity fundraising event to raise money for The British Heart Foundation and Save The Children Fund.

Dear Octopus
The life of an English family shown in terms of the chatter of youngsters, the careers and nursery memories of the middle-aged and the sense of the swift passing of the years.

The Browning Version
In Rattigan’s play, teacher Andrew Crocker retires after 18 years as a classics professor at an English boys’ school, forcing a reevaluation of his past, his marriage and his future.

Quiet Weekend
Mildred and Arthur Royd, Marcia’s parents, own a country cottage intended for quiet week-ends. It does not, however, work out that way on some occasions.

Dinner With The Family
Delachume, a young man of considerable charm and no scruples, is married to a rich, hysterical wife then into Georges’ life comes Isabelle, a quiet young girl with a kind heart.