NEW SEASON 2024 – 2025
We have exciting productions and activities to present to you this coming season. Tickets are available for Members from the Monday evening preceding the opening night and then go on General Sale to Non-Members from the Wednesday of the same week.
Play 1 – SILVER LINING by Sandi Toksvig produced by Cody McGinty
23rd – 28th September 2024
A play about a varied group of women in a retirement home. As they chat about their life experiences, a storm rages outside and floods rise alarmingly. With no rescue in sight, the ladies realise that to survive this crisis, they are going to have to do what, until recently, they’ve had to do all their lives: look after themselves. They need to create ‘The Great Escape’ – senior citizen style.
Play 2 – TWIST by Miles Tredinnick and produced by Keri Duffy
18th – 23rd November 2024
David is a mild-mannered accountant who sees a way of making a fortune by writing a kiss-and-tell biography about his venomous wife, the nations favourite actress from a hit TV Soap. In this hilarious spoof of the popular genre. the thriller, nobody is what they seem and nothing is what it should be. Just when you think you know whats going to happen next – another “twist” catches you out.
Event – CANDLELIT CAROL SERVICE at Hallcroft Methodist Church with reading my members of the Retford Little Theatre
Sunday 21st December 2024 at 6pm followed by the legendary Beetledrive at the Retford Little Theatre, all welcome
Event – QUIZ NIGHT
Friday 10th January 2025 – 7:30pm
Come and join your Quiz Masters Judith and Stephen Walker and pit your wits against the other teams all trying to win cask prizes in this popular event. Comfortable seating in the lounge and bar facilities available.
Play 3 – HOBSON’S CHOICE by Harold Brighouse and produced by Richard Hinchliffe
27th January – 1st February 2025
This ever popular comedy features boot and shoemaker and overbearing father, Henry Hobson, whose elder daughter Maggie dares to stand up to him, and announces her intention of marrying Hobson’s timid and downtrodden employee, Willie Mossop. Maggie and Willie make a success of their own shoe shop, and the tables are gradually turned until in the end Henry’s drinking gets out of control. Willie saves the day and leaves his father-in-law, inevitably, with…Hobson’s choice.
Play 4 – KILL THY NEIGHBOUR by Lucie Lovatt and produced by Stephen Walker
24th – 29th March 2025
Lucie, the playwright – spent her school years in Retford and her parents still live here. After a career as a creative producer in London’s West End, Lucie turned to writing. This is her first full-length play and it received 4 and 5 star reviews in all the major newspapers. Living in a picture-perfect village in Wales, Caryl wants to escape but her husband wants to stay. Does he feel he belongs or is there a secret he can’t escape? Lucie’s remarkable dark comedy is about love, marriage and feeling trapped in your own life.
Event – MURDER MYSTERY EVENING “DEATH BY CHOCOLATE”
Saturday 19th April 2025 – 7:30pm
Come along and see if you can work out “who dunnit”. Limited tickets will be available for this event – watch social media for details of when tickets go on sale.
Play 5 – SHEILA’S ISLAND by Tim Firth and produced by Donnamarie Stamp
19th – 24th May 2025
Four, out-of-condition, businesswomen set off on a team building exercise and succeed in becoming the first people ever to get shipwrecked on an island in the Lake District. Cut off from the world, this middle-class exercise turns into a carnival of recriminations, French cricket and sausages. What would have been a bonding process turns into a muddy, bloody fight for survival. Because when night settles in, strange things happen out in the wilds. And what took place on Sheila’s Island that foggy November weekend none of this particular middle-management team would ever forget.
Event – ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Friday 18th July 2025- 7:30pm
Come along and have a say in how your theatre is run. Refreshments will be available.
IMPORTANT ANNOUCEMENT
We rely on our small army of volunteers, without whom we wouldn’t be able to entertain our audiences.
Yes, it’s true – the theatre staff aren’t paid – they’re all volunteers, and they form an essential part of every event that takes place.
We welcome anyone that can spare a few hours to give us a hand – it could be serving drinks in the bar, making tea and coffee for the interval, working the box office, or even acting as Front of House Staff in the auditorium.
Interested in getting involved? Please contact the Box Office on 01777 702002 or email us at