The award-winning Dyad Productions and Company Gavin Robertson are joining forces! It’s a pedigree of the first degree! Between them, Dyad’s recent productions – Austen’s Women: LADY SUSAN, A Christmas Carol, A Room of One’s Own, That Knave, Raleigh – and Gavin Robertson, with Done to Death by Jove!, The Ghost of a Smile and […]
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Fakespeare
Merely Players present FAKESPEARE a deceptively truthful tale by Stuart Fortey There are two problems with deception.The first is being found out.The second is not being found out. In 1794, noted antiquarian Samuel Ireland is delighted when his son William brings him unknown documents in the hand of Shakespeare, obtained from an anonymous source. But […]
Blindfold
Clap Trap Theatre presents… BLINDFOLD—by BAFTA-nominated writer Tom Needham Featuring Florrie Stockbridge, Natasha Jones and Cal Stockbridge. In 1914, two boyhood friends went to fight for their country—only one came back. After the war, the surviving soldier and his sister encounter an old friend who is being haunted by the ghost of a young man […]
Bowie, Cambo & All the Hype
An evening with John Cambridge hosted by Garry Burnett Bowie, Cambo & All the Hype traces the extraordinary and pivotal friendship between David Bowie and drummer John Cambridge, from the time when Bowie made his first major career breakthrough in 1969 to his death from cancer in 2016. Drummer, musician and friend John ‘Cambo’ Cambridge […]
Just Dickens!
Other Lives Productions presents Just Dickens! To herald the Christmas Season, a gallimaufry of readings, snippets, anecdotes, factoids and semi-dramatisations from “the man who invented Christmas”. Thia performance is part of our Members’ 241 Offer. Please ask for details.
A Ghost of a Smile
TWO DICKENS GHOST STORIES WITH A COMIC TWIST Adapted and directed by Gavin Robertson and performed by Nicholas Collett From the team who brought you ‘Done To Death By Jove!’ and “Is That A Whip In Your Hand?” Two of Charles Dickens’ creepy tales – with a comic twist. Tales with a tingle, but also […]
Goosebumps
THE GOOSEBUMPS OF DELIGHT!Adapted & Directed by Gavin RobertsonPerformed by Nicholas Collett A sequel to THE GHOST OF A SMILE, and spookily apt between Halloween and Christmas, two (more) of Charles Dickens’ ghost stories, but with a comic element- adapted from his original stories ‘The Baron of Grogzwig’ – in which a downhearted Noble is visited by […]
ROOM
Room – A journey into the creative mind of Virginia Woolf Written and performed by HEATHER ALEXANDER.Directed by DOMINIQUE GERRARD. A woman must have money and a room of her own Cambridge University, 1928. Virginia Woolf, the celebrated writer, is abruptly ordered off the grass and refused entry to the library. Her crime? Being a […]
Gravest Fears: Two Ghost Stories by M R James
“Didn’t you see it? A thing like a man? Hair all over him? And two great eyes to it? You’re telling me you didn’t see that? Well you count yourself lucky, lad. You count yourself lucky…” Cathedrals are seats of terror in these two thrilling tales by M R James, the master of the English ghost […]
The Hull to Scarborough Line: Flight
For fifteen years Sue Wilsea and Felix Hodcroft, aka ‘The Hull to Scarborough Line’ have been producing dynamic, irreverent shows that blend every form and style of spoken word performance. We range between the heart-stoppingly moving and the plain silly – and all points between. ‘Flight’ is our most ambitious show yet and will take […]
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