Our previous productions
'An Inspector Calls' by J B Priestley - Summer 2006
Directed by David Sherratt
The play is set on a Spring evening in 1912 at the Brumley home of the Birlings, a prosperous family in the industrial North.
The family has enjoyed a dinner celebrating the engagement of their daughter, Sheila, to Gerald Croft, heir to a successful family business. But their evening is interrupted by a police inspector . . . . . . their lives will never be the same again!
Cast:
JOHN YATES - Mr Arthur Birling
PATRICIA UNWIN - Mrs Sybil Birling
ERIC PARTINGTON - an Inspector
DEMELZA WATTS - Miss Sheila Birling
OLIVER JONES - Mr Eric Birling
JOHN BLUNDEN - Mr Gerald Croft
RACHEL SKITTRALL - Edna the Parlour Maid
'Getting On' by Alan Bennett - Spring 2007
Directed by Oliver Clauson
Alan Bennett’s ‘Getting On’ was written in 1971, when Edward Heath was Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher Education Minister and mini skirts still at the height of fashion! It explores the life of George Oliver, a disenchanted socialist MP and his wife Polly, as he contends with his passing years. The play is set in the basement kitchen where all the comings and goings of the house are lively presented.
Cast:
HOWARD WILKINSON - Geoff Price
JOHN YATES - George Oliver MP
CHLOE AMMONDS-NUTT - Polly Oliver (George's wife)
ANDREW PHILLIPS - Brian Lowther MP
BARBARA CLAUSON - Enid Baker (Polly's mother)
EDWINA HAMMAL - Mrs Broadribb
SEAN MERRETT - Andy Oliver (George's son)
'Waiting for Panto' by Mike Williams - Spring 2008
Directed by Charlotte Mannion
This comedy finds a group of amateur actors with an audience, a stage, but no play! Unable to decide what to do, they embark on a remarkable production which stretches them (and their audience) beyond credulity….. Oh yes it does!
Cast:
CAROL SYKES - The Director and The Genie
ANDREW PHILLIPS - The Author
JOHN BLUNDEN - Ralph, Laertes and The Ghost
JOHN YATES - Committee Member, Widow Twankey and Gertrude
LOUISA DAVISON - Committee Member, Rosencrantz and Beryl
CHRISTINE MERCER - Committee Member and Maid
HOWARD WILKINSON - Actor and Hamlet
JACK HAWKES - Actor and Wishee Washee
DEREK PINCHEN - Actor and Horatio
MARTHA FOGG - Actor, Ophelia and Princess Tango
AMANDA HANCOCK - Actor and Aladdin
BARRY MERCER - Abanazar and Claudius
BOB MILLS - Polonius and The Emperor
LYNDA FARRINGTON - Guildenstern and Beryl
'The Philanthropist' by Christopher Hampton - Autumn 2008
Directed by Sue Baxter
This play examines the flaws of the central character through a number of diverse situations.
Cast:
JANI LOIKKANEN - John
ALEXANDER ROGERS - Phillip
JOHN BLUNDEN - Don
JOHN YATES - Braham
MARTHA FOGG - Araminta
AMANDA HANCOCK - Celia
GAIL SINDEN - Liz
'A day in the death of Joe Egg' by Peter Nichols - Nov 2009
Directed by Sue Baxter
A funny and heart-wrenchingly sad comedy, based on the playwrights own experience as the father of a disabled child.
Cast:
ALEXANDER ROGERS - Brian
GAIL SINDEN - Sheila
HOWARD WILKINSON - Freddie
CAROL SYKES - Grace
EVANGELINE HARBURY - Joe
SARA DANESH-POUR - Pam
‘Entertaining Mr Sloane’ by Joe Orton - June 2010
Directed by Sue Baxter and Alexander Rogers
Meet Mr Sloane – a bottle-blond, bisexual likely lad straight from the swinging Sixties, and the swaggering antihero of Joe Orton’s masterful black comedy of lust, leather, and lethal one-liners......
Cast:
DONNA DOUBTFIRE - Kath
JOHN YATES - Ed
ALEXANDER ROGERS - Sloane
ERIC PARTINGTON - Kemp