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PLAY : Performance Starting Times:
Sunday’s 7:00pm all other nights at 7:30pm
Our first play of the new season
‘HAY FEVER’
by Noel Coward
October 6th -12th
2024
Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist and his wife Judith, a retired actress, find that an impossible dream when their high-spiritedchildren Simon and Sorrel appear with guests of their own.
A houseful of drama waits to be ignited as misunderstandings and tempers flare.
Other plays for next season
This adaptation of the Dickens classic rediscovers the social conscience of the timeless well-
known tale – one ghostly Christmas night, cold-hearted businessman Ebenezer Scrooge gets
the fright of his life, discovers the truth about himself and learns to love his neighbour.
In this adaptation, Charles Dickens appears as the writer that he is, aiming to write a Christmas book that is fighting for social justice.
It starts, ‘Marley was dead: to begin with.’
Primarily a thriller, ‘Deathtrap’ is also a sharply funny play full of twists and turns.
A washed-up playwright finds a chance to rise to the top once more, a shot he’d be willing to kill for.
Unknown dramatist and student of Sidney Bruhl, Clifford Anderson has sent his
new thriller to award-winning Broadway author Sidney for comment – or has he?
Without a success to his name for some years, Sidney plots with his reluctant wife Myra about how best to plagiarise ‘Deathtrap’ and when Clifford turns up to discuss the play with the
‘Master’, events take a sinister turn.
Sidney jokes with his wife that it would be easy to
murder Clifford and steal the script for his own.
However no-one, not even the visiting
psychic (Helga) could predict where the dark events of the night will go.
Present day.
Judy and Johnny have chosen to lead a 50s lifestyle: clothes, décor, appliances.
She stays at home while Johnny works as an estate agent hoping for a promotion.
Every marriage needs a little fantasy to keep it sparkling, but behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess isn’t as easy as it looks.
This is a thought-provoking, dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife in the modern world.
Set in New York in the 1980s. Olive and her girlfriends are enjoying Trivial Pursuit night in
Olive’s messy apartment when Florence arrives having been dumped by her husband.
Olive invites her to become her room-mate.
Olive and Florence have very different personalities, Olive is untidy and unconcerned about the state of her apartment, Florence is obsessively clean and tidy.
Olive’s easy-going outlook on life soon clashes with her room-mate’s, testing
their friendship to the limit.
When Olive organises a double-date with the Costazuela brothers, their differences come to a head and sparks fly.