What’s On
All My Sons
By Arthur Miller
Directed by Christine Odlum
America, 1947. Three years on from the disappearance of his son, successful businessman Joe Keller has made a comfortable life for his family in America’s Midwest.
Despite being accused of supplying defective aircraft equipment in the Second World War, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.
But nothing lasts forever, and long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare.
Miller’s first successful play on Broadway, All My Sons launched his career and established him as one of America’s greatest dramatists.
An incisive indictment of greed, capitalism and self-interest, this play is remembered as one of the playwright’s greatest works.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International on behalf of Josef Weinberger Ltd.
Doors Open 6:45pm
Something To Hide
By Leslie Sands
Directed by Dennis Yardley
Set in the country getaway home of successful novelist Howard Holt, who is visited each weekend by his wife and publisher Karen.
Karen arrives unexpectedly, late one evening. She is distraught having apparently killed a young woman by driving over her in the darkness, in the lane outside. Howard agrees to help her dispose of the body.
Thereafter, begins a sequence of events in which one unexpected turn follows another, as a seemingly gullible police inspector appears to accept the story cooked up by Howard and his wife.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International on behalf of Josef Weinberger Ltd.
Doors Open 6:45pm
The Haunting
By Hugh Janes and Charles Dickens.
Directed by Carol Caine and Paul Sylvester.
The Haunting is a spine-chilling, traditional ghost story, with unexpected twists, turns, thrills and revelations.
The play, by Hugh Janes has been adapted from several original ghost stories written by Charles Dickens.
It tells the story of a young book dealer, employed to catalogue a library of rare books. A series of strange and unexplained events conspire to keep him from his work. His employer, however, is sceptical about the strange phenomena the book dealer is experiencing, but assists him to discover the source of the terrifying events…..
An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books
Doors Open 6:45pm
When We Are Married
By J.B Priestley
Directed By Stella Judson
Three couples, pillars of Clecklewhyke society, are lavishly celebrating their milestone 25th wedding anniversary when they are shocked to learn that after all these 25 years together, they have never actually been legally married.
Unfortunately, the drunken photographer and the reporter from the local newspaper have turned up to record their grand occasion for posterity. But if the news gets out the scandal will ruin them.
The obvious solution is to get married again, legally this time, quickly and quietly, but . . . Is a re-run of their last 25 years together what they really want? Or is this their great opportunity to leave the past, and each other, behind? And, in the light of what they have experienced, to re-write their future and live a little?
What would you do?
JB Priestley takes a humorous look at time in this, his ‘farcical comedy’ about love and marriage.
Audience members are advised that the play is of its time, and reflects early 20th century attitudes to relationships and domestic violence
Doors Open 6:45pm
Third Finger Left Hand
Third Finger, Left Hand
The UK Amateur Premiere By Dermot Canavan
The Farndale Macbeth
A Comedy by William Shakespeare, David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr.
