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PLAY : Performance Starting Times:
Sunday’s 7:00pm all other nights at 7:30pm
Our next play is…
‘Deathtrap’
by Ira Levin
February 2nd-8th
2025
in 2025
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.
Other plays for the new year
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.