Plays & Pantomime
A brilliant theatrical tour de force which is drawn from real life events involving the strange tale of Rene Gallimard, a French diplomat posted to Beijing who carried on a twenty year relationship with…
Cast 7 male 3 female
Fast-moving and outrageously funny, this delightful play traces the trials and tribulations of a community theatre production of Macbeth, from casting rehearsals to the breathless deadline of opening…
Cast 12 male 9 female
Switching between the 1950s and the present day, this play re-enacts the romantic adventures of a Tory MP, Gerald Gray, with a fatal weakness for the 'fairer' sex. While the house in which these adventures…
Cast 2 male 5 female
The play opens at the wedding of Taylor and Cynthia, a golden couple beloved by everyone—almost. Libby, Cynthia's hard-drinking sister, is in love with Taylor herself and she can take it no longer.…
Cast 3 male 2 female
Sheridan Whiteside comes to dine with the Stanleys, a nice conventional American family, and is forced by an unhappy accident to stay for six weeks. The Stanley living-room is monopolised by this irascible…
Cast 15 male 9 female
Miller's early American fable, which recently received its British premiere at the Bristol Old Vic and London's Young Vic Theatre tells the story of two brothers, David and Amos Beeves, and the fate which…
Cast 9 male 2 female
When kindly old Mrs. Gillis, who lives alone in a large house on the outskirts of town, takes in a friendless and semingly helpless young man who has come looking for work and who reminds her of the son…
Cast 5 male 2 female
Part of a collection of seven short plays originally commissioned by London’s Tricycle Theatre to stimulate discussion and debate on the on-going situation in Darfur. In MANY MEN'S WIFE, three men vie…
Cast 3 male 1 female
The mid-life crisis strikes Walter and Vivien when Walter announces his intentions to rebel against his house husband existence in London and leave for Marrakech to write a book - alone. Walter's plans…
Cast 1 male 1 female
As the play begins Bette and Boo are being united in matrimony, surrounded by their beaming families. But as the further progress of their marriage is chronicled it becomes increasingly clear that things…
Cast 5 male 5 female
Jack comes home from a middling day at the office to quickly announce to his wife, Gillian, that he is leaving her. Suspecting for some time a midlife crisis, Gillian goads Jack about this announcement,…
This dark yet hilarious account of one woman's commitment to loving others first, in spite of her own personal struggles, was first presented at Hampstead Theatre before transferring to the West End.…
Cast 5 male 4 female
Father Tim Farley, a lover of the good things in life, is comfortably ensconced as priest of a prosperous Catholic congregation. Without realizing it, he has resorted to flattering his parishioners and…
Cast 2 male
Maria Callas is teaching a master class in front of an audience (us). She's glamorous, commanding, larger than life—and drop-dead funny. An accompanist sits at the piano. Callas' first "victim" is Sophie,…
Cast 3 male 3 female
From the author of the award-winning The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband and the BT Biennial play Nasty Neighbours comes this fable for adults about Matilda, a compulsive liar who tells so many lies that…
Cast 2 male 3 female
The hugely successful and attractive chat show host Draycott Harris has a problem...he has no luck with women. Draycott enlists the help of his long-lost, worldly-wise brother to assist him in the pursuit…
A sketch co-authored by Durang and Wendy Wasserstein. Medea and her chorus of 3 woman try to figure out if it's appropriate to kill your children to punish your husband. Jason shows up; so does a messenger…
Cast 2 male 4 female
Out of the poignant loneliness of adolescence and the strange bond between black and white in the American south of the 1940s, Carson McCullers fashioned one of the most beautiful plays of a generation…
Cast 6 male 7 female
This is the shorter of two plays which were produced on Broadway under the generic title of A View from the Bridge. a one-act fragment about people who work in an automobile parts warehouse in the early…
Cast 12 male 2 female
Every Tuesday night, Rob, an advertising executive in his late twenties, gets together with either Larry, a salesman in his mid-thirties, or Kurt, a psychiatrist in his early thirties, for a tennis match.…
Cast 3 male
Act One: In FOREPLAY OR: THE ART OF THE FUGUE, we find Chuck, a self-styled Don Juan, and his girlfriend on a date at the miniature golf course. When they move to the second hole, a slightly older Chuck…
The play is set in a boarding house in a small town on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Three unmarried women, Alma Jean, Cutie and Miss Rowena, have lived there for years, watching the life of the town. Helen…
A modern morality play, showing the devastating effect that ingenious manipulation and programming can have on any of us, but at the very last moment affirming the “speck of diamond” of basic integrity…
Cast 10 male 5 female
A present-day version of a classic Greek myth, THE MINOTAUR is a contemporary take on love, honor, and human connection. With refreshing originality and wit, it explores how we break out of history in…
Cast 4 male 2 female
Outraged and disheartened by the vain flattery and calculated duplicity of his fellow men, Alceste declares that henceforth he will speak only the truth, no matter what offence this might herald. His…
Cast 8 male 3 female
World premiere: April 2002 as a co-production between Derby Playhouse and Salisbury Playhouse. A new comedy about sex, infertility and DIY artificial insemination! After years of attempting to conceive…
Cast 2 male 2 female
The place is the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven, the time a few days before the Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott (known locally as "Miss Hot Tamale") is rehearsing furiously for the Miss Firecracker…
Diana Roberts, an attractive heiress, has lost her memory. All she recalls is falling in love with a sailor, marrying him at sea and losing him in the port of Cape Town. She can no longer remember his…
The sequel to this author's celebrated The Miracle Worker, the present play takes up the story of its famous protagonists at a later point, when Helen Keller has come to young womanhood and Annie Sullivan…
Monkey’s Uncle examines the mayhem caused when our animal instincts come into conflict with our civilised veneers. Monkey’s Uncle begins with the great farceur Georges Feydeau struggling to cope –…
Cast 4 male 3 female
In a series of comic scenes—one for each month of the year—we follow the intertwined worlds of a circle of friends and family whose lives are poised between happiness and heartbreak. The circle centers…
Set in an unknown town that has just been occupied by a small regiment of enemy soldiers, the Mayor of the town agrees to meet with the enemy to try to work out a plan for peaceful coexistence between…
Cast 17 male 3 female
It’s a sunny day in Prestatyn for the End of Season Championships . . . Our Lady All Angels’ Morris Dancing Troupe are fluffing up their shakers, whitening their pumps and sizing up the competition.…
Cast 6 female
With the help of a high-tech stage manager, Rudnick takes on a new culturally-inclusive revision of the Old Testament, travelling from the Garden of Eden to the present day in a theatrical tour de force.…
Cast 4 male 5 female
Christmas past, Christmas present and Christmas future are all very familiar. But in the hands of a dysfunctional family intent on throwing annual fancy dress parties on Christmas Eve under the watchful…
"Traditional family entertainment at its best .. would put many an expensive movie blockbuster to shame" [Bath Evening Chronicle] "Denys and Harris conjure up all that's best in traditional Pantomime…
Cast 5 male 3 female
Follow the adventures of Mother Goose and Cilla the magic goose! The wicked squire and the demoness hatch a plan to kidnap poor Cilla for her golden eggs. Their plans are thwarted when Mother Goose, her…
Cast 4 male 4 female
The master dramatist's great epic trilogy, which traces the rise and fall of a New England family in terms paralleling the structure of The Oresteia of Aeschylus.The plays may be produced in their entirety…
Cast 7 male 4 female
Philip Markham, a publisher of children's books, is asked by his business partner, Henry Lodge, if he can borrow the flat for the evening to gallivant with his latest girlfriend. As Philip and his wife…
Harry Peters walks into an old club, greeting what may be an old friend or a long lost brother. The club brings back memories, or creates them, and even though he is not sure which, he is there for a…
In this departure from Dickens, young Scrooge's exclamations of "Bah, humbug!" are an undiagnosed "kind of seasonal Tourette's Syndrome," and The Ghost of Christmas Past is played by a sassy African-American…
Cast 6 male 4 female
A middle-aged suburban matron is scheduled to give a lecture on the meaning of theatre, but has lost her notes. Relying on memory, her comments are dotty, but definitely endearing. From the collection…
Cast 1 female
Scarfield Ladies Rugby Union FC have a tough time attracting enough members to turn out a full team most weeks, despite the best efforts of their captain Maggie. Forced to use tyres and oil drums for…
Cast 7 female
Joint-winner of the 1985 Mobil Playwriting Competition and premiered at the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre, this play recently enjoyed a highly successful run at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. Set…
Cast 6 male 3 female
Thriller.
Thomas Devereaux, a successful architect and local contractor, and his beautiful wife, Joan, have just moved into their dream house in the quiet suburban town of Green Meadows when they are visited by…
From the author of Out of Focus comes this hilarious spoof of the best Agatha Christie traditions, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight: Bunting the butler, an English Colonel with…
William Shakespeare, in his mid-twenties, an aspiring playwright without a foothold in London, is desperate to make his mark. The greatest obstacle to his achieving the success he believes he richly deserves…
Cast 7 male 2 female
The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious 'Stage Door Slasher') assemble for a backer's audition at an isolated country mansion.…
My Dog's Got No Nose takes us on a journey through the events surrounding a stand-up comedian’s first ever performance. Before picking up his microphone and venturing into the limelight, he…
Cast 1 male
Set in Lady Eppingham's house in India, this play has all the superb comedy that one would expect from the masters of farce, plus a good measure of thrills. The eccentric but aristocratic Lady Eppingham…
THE MYSTERY AT TWICKNAM VICARAGE. A body on the carpet, three ridiculous Masterpiece Theatre-style suspects and a bumbling Scotland Yard detective solve philosophical quandaries as they investigate: Who…