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.
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.
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.