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Past Productions

UPCOMING SHOWS

Below is a list of our previous productions:

THE BEASTS OF HOLM

Thursday 11 to Sunday 14 February 2027

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FAITH HEALER

Saturday 22 to Saturday 29 January 2028

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MY THREE ANGELS

Saturday 4 to Saturday 11 December 2027

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A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE

Saturday 16 to Saturday 23 October 2027

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LOOT

Saturday 11 to Saturday 18 September 2027

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ROMEO AND JULIET

Monday 12 to Saturday 17 July 2027

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THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

Saturday 5 to Saturday 12 June 2027

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MACBETH

Saturday 17 to Saturday 24 April 2027

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HOW TO HOLD YOUR BREATH

Saturday 13 to Saturday 20 March 2027

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CLUEDO

Saturday 23 to Saturday 30 January 2027

Murder has never been so much fun.

Cluedo throws the famous board game onto the stage along with all its well-known suspects, weapons and locations. Discover whodunnit in this silly slapstick comedy.

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EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES

Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 February 2026

Sometimes a journey is not all that it seems

If you’re given the responsibility to set off on the train with a pocket full of money to pass on to your grandmother, what is the thing you would dread the most?

Step into 1930’s Berlin to join the Young Actors' Company as they endeavour to retrieve Emil’s cash from the contemptible Mr Snow….

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IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Saturday 5 to Saturday 12 December 2026

Captioned performance Thursday 10 December

A heart-warming, life inspiring story that has the power to make us laugh, cry and cheer.

A holiday favourite for all generations, It’s A Wonderful Life follows businessman George Bailey as he reaches breaking point on Christmas Eve.

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THE CRUCIBLE

Saturday 24 to Saturday 31 October 2026

Captioned performance Thursday 29 October

Be afraid. The witches of Salem are coming for you.

In a community ruled by suspicion, accusations spread faster than the truth.

The Crucible tells the terrifying story of the Salem witch trials, where fear and self-interest destroy lives.

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THE SHAKESPEARE CODEX

Saturday 12 to Saturday 19 September 2026

Captioned performance Thursday 17 September

All the Disc's a stage!

Elves are up to no good in Elizabethan England and only 1 man can stop them. But he may need some help from a bunch of wizards, an Orangutan and a portable thinking machine.

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CIPHERS

Saturday 30 May to Saturday 6 June 2026

Captioned performance Thursday 4 June

Trust Is a Double-Edged Sword.

Justine has a new job. She’s a spy. She can’t tell her family what she does. She can’t tell her friends. And now she can’t tell anyone. Because Justine is dead.

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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

Monday 13 to Saturday 18 July 2026

“Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.”

Falstaff is skint and scheming. He sets his sights on the Merry Wives of Windsor, but these sharp-witted women have plans of their own.

Expect romance, mischief, and riotous comedy in this sparkling Shakespeare classic brought to life in York House’s Fountain Gardens.

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ANNE BOLEYN

Saturday 18 to Saturday 25 April 2026

Captioned performance Thursday 23 April

"I will be a new queen. For a new England."

Anne Boleyn is witty, intelligent, and strong-willed, throwing her energies into marrying King Henry and dreams of being a new Protestant queen for a new Protestant England. Henry remains desperate for a son and heir that Anne does not produce. Her enemies gather and her fall is rapid and terrible.

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DOCTOR FAUSTUS

Saturday 14 to Saturday 21 March 2026

Captioned performance Thursday 19 March

Hell hath no limits...

Doctor Faustus, a distinguished scholar, summons a demon who promises him ultimate knowledge and power. The catch? Faustus must trade his soul to Lucifer and be damned to Hell forever. Can he find a way to escape damnation without sacrificing his greatest desires?

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THE WINTER'S TALE

Saturday 25 October to Saturday 1 November 2025

"Thou met'st with things dying, I with things new-born."

Hermione, Queen of Sicilia, is accused of infidelity by her husband Leontes with catastrophic impact. Sixteen years later. in Shakespeare's magical play, resolution is achieved, and what's lost is found.

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GOOD

Saturday 24 to Saturday 31 January 2026

Captioned performance Thursday 29 January

When good men do nothing, evil will prevail.

As the Second World War looms, Professor John Halder struggles to balance family life. But when his latest book catches the attention of the Nazis, he's pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.

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THE GHOST TRAIN (REVISED)

Saturday 6 to Saturday 13 December 2025

Captioned performance Thursday 11 December

Old tales. New fears. And something none of them saw coming...

Six passengers are stranded overnight at an isolated Cornish railway station. Ignoring the ghostly tales and dire warnings of the stationmaster, they decide to wait there until morning - with terrifying consequences as they unravel the secret of The Ghost Train.

Join us for this classic chilling comedy thriller that will stop you in your tracks!

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BINGO: SCENES OF MONEY AND DEATH

Saturday 13 to Saturday 20 September 2025

“Was anything done?”

It is 1615. Shakespeare cannot write and his theatre lies in ruins. London was brutal, but can Stratford offer peace? Or have horrors followed him home?

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Monday 14 to Saturday 19 July 2025

"The course of true love never did run smooth"

Shakespeare’s riotous tale of magic and mayhem unfolds over a single summer’s night. Four lovers, a feuding king and queen of the fairies, and six amateur actors become embroiled in each other’s stories as confusion reigns in the woods.

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SHAKESPEARE IS DEAD

Friday 20 to Sunday 22 June 2025

A production devised and performed by the Junior Actors' Company

In a world drowning in uncertainty, five girls find solace in the words of Shakespeare.

Guidance - this play contains challenging themes and mild threat.

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JOSEPH K AND THE COST OF LIVING

Saturday 31 May to Saturday 7 June 2025

One story, four lives - navigating a twisted maze of discrimination and survival

"Somebody must have made a false accusation against Joseph K, for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong" - Franz Kafka, The Trial. Emily White's adaptation entwines the torments of discrimination and injustice into a witty physical performance as four diverse individuals play Joseph K battling within the big bureaucratic machine.

Copyright & Licence |An amateur production by arrangement with Independent Talent.

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'TIS PITTY SHEE'S A WHORE

Saturday 19 to Saturday 26 April 2025

"Shall then, for that I am her brother born,
My joys be ever banished from her bed?"

Forbidden love between brother and sister leads to tragic consequences. This Jacobean masterpiece offers verse to rival Shakespeare, tragic roles as challenging as Ophelia and Juliet – and a villain more treacherous than Iago.

Guidance –This play explores adult themes and includes depictions of violence as well as exhibiting 17th century attitudes that may be abhorrent today.

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THE IT

Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 February 2025

A Young Actors Company production.

Grace has something growing inside her. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands. It has claws. But she can't contain it forever. Sooner or later something's got to give…

Guidance - mention of mild body horror imagery and violence.

Copyright & Licence
‘The IT’, is an amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books

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WHILE THE SUN SHINES

Saturday 15 to Saturday 22 March 2025

London in the Blitz, and love is fleeting: time to make hay.

Bobby, the young Earl of Harpenden, has begged for leave from the Royal Navy to marry his fiancée, Lady Elizabeth. But on the eve of the wedding a beefy American airman and an impulsive Free French lieutenant also fall head over heels for the bride-to-be.

Guidance – Some characters and dialogue reflect stereotypes and attitudes of the time the play was written (1943)

Copyright & Licence | This amateur production of “While the Sun Shines” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

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TABLE MANNERS

Saturday 18 to Saturday 25 January 2025

Fifty years ago, Alan Ayckbourn’s acclaimed trilogy, The Norman Conquests, opened in the West End. Following the events of a weekend in a faded middle-class abode in the south of England Table Manners (set in the dining room) is the best known.

Guidance – This play was written in 1973 and reflects the language and attitudes of that time.

Copyright & Licence
This amateur production of “Table Manners” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

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THE UNEXPECTED GUEST

Saturday 7 to Saturday 14 December 2024

In the mist of deception, everyone's a suspect.
Who will reveal the truth?

Guidance – Contains the use of guns and gunfire. Some characters and dialogue reflect stereotypes and attitudes of the time the play was written (1958).

Copyright & Licence
This amateur production of “The Unexpected Guest” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

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ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM

Saturday 26 October to Saturday 2 November 2024

Fog on the down. Snow falls in hell. Arden must die.

Alice Arden plots to kill her husband.
With the aid of her lover, servants, neighbours and professional killers, it takes many attempts that are both savagely comic as well as tragic. Are they incompetent, or just unlucky?

Guidance – This play explores adult themes and includes depictions of violence, as well as exhibiting 16th-century attitudes that may be abhorrent today.

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AMERICAN BUFFALO

Saturday 14 to Saturday 21 September 2024

Looking after number one, that's all good business is.

1975. From a rundown Chicago junk shop, three petty criminals plan a robbery of a rare 'American Buffalo' nickel coin.

Guidance - Contains extremely offensive, racist and homophobic language, and scenes of violence.

Copyright & Licence –
This amateur production of “American Buffalo” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

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ONE MILLION TINY PLAYS ABOUT BRITAIN (A SELECTION)

Friday 21 to Sunday 23 June 2024

A Junior Actors Company production.

“Finding the epic in the ordinary”

Copyright & Licensing Information
Selection from ONE MILLION TINY PLAYS ABOUT BRITAIN by Craig Taylor. Copyright © 2009, Craig Taylor, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.

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DNA

Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 February 2024

A Young Actors Company production.

"When Bad Choices Lead to Unlikely Bonds, can Redemption Break the Spell?"

A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that their cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their once fractious lives, where is the incentive to put things right?

Copyright & Licensing Information:
This amateur production of “DNA” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd.
on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

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CYRANO DE BERGERAC

Monday 15 to Saturday 20 July 2024

“Have you ever loved someone?”

Cyrano de Bergerac, a man of countless talents and one very prominent nose, yearns for the love of the beautiful Roxane.

GUIDANCE: 11+ Contains scenes of period warfare including swords and musket fire, smoke effects and scenes that some people may find distressing.

Copyright & Licensing Information:
This amateur production of “Cyrano De Bergerac (Maxwell)” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals

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HEROES

Saturday 1 to Saturday 8 June 2024

"Sometimes, the most audacious escapes are plotted in the most unlikely of places."

In a retirement home for old soldiers, three elderly veterans while away their days with tepid suppers and tales of past glories. That is until an opportunity to make a daring escape presents itself...

Copyright & Licensing Information. This amateur production of “Heroes” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd.
on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

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OTHELLO

Saturday 20 April to Saturday 27 April 2024

"I am not what I am”

On a hot, isolated Mediterranean island three outsiders – a black leader in a white state, an unworldly woman in a war zone, and a vengeful malcontent holding a grudge – plunge into tragedy.

GUIDANCE | Othello explores adult themes and language and depictions of violence.

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PRIVATE LIVES

Saturday 16 to Saturday 23 March 2024

Coward’s comic masterpiece explores the pain and passion of love, as Elyot and Amanda try to rekindle their broken marriage, in one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written.

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The All-Female Pallas Players Present "WHISKY GALORE"

Saturday 9 to Saturday 16 December 2023

It’s 1955 and The All-Female Pallas Players, a touring troupe, present their retelling of a whisky-filled shipwreck on a remote Scottish island, where the ‘golden dram’ supply has dried up due to the war.

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MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Saturday 20 to Saturday 27 January 2024

"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"

Charged with responsibility to eliminate all wrongdoing within his hotel, Duke Vincentio entrusts his deputy, Angelo, with full authority. Nevertheless, Duke Vincentio decides to return in secret and to observe how Angelo wields his newly found power.

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ENRON

Saturday 21 to Saturday 28 October 2023

A crashing scandal of lies, crime and greed.

Based on true events, Lucy Prebble combines classical tragedy with sharp comedy to reveal the lies, crime and greed in this powerful political satire.

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JULIUS CAESAR

Monday 17 to Saturday 22 July 2023

"Beware the Ides of March…"

A city on the brink… a murderous regime change.. a descent into civil war. This production promises an exciting contemporary interpretation of the play, staged in the round, in our annual open air production.

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MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL

Thursday 1 to Saturday 3 June 2023

“Now my good Angel, whom God appoints
To be my Guardian, hover over the swords' points."

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HENRY V

Saturday 22 to Saturday 29 April 2023

A nation divided, war on the horizon, a new king with everything to prove…

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TERRY PRATCHETT'S WYRD SISTERS

Saturday 18 to Saturday 25 March 2023

Macbeth meets Hamlet meets Granny Weatherwax!

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JAKE REVOLVER, FREELANCE SECRET AGENT

Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 February 2023

A YOUNG ACTORS COMPANY PRODUCTION

In this radio-noir, private detective parody, Jake Revolver fights against conspiracy, double cross and self-reference to uncover the killer of his own narrator.

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HOLLOWAY JONES

Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 February 2022

Holloway Jones is 16, her Mum is in prison, and she is in foster care. Despite all this, her life is on track. But...

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THE HOLLOW

Saturday 21 to Saturday 28 January 2023

A classic Christie country house whodunnit complete with the customary red herrings for breakfast…

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THE FLINT STREET NATIVITY

Saturday 10 to Saturday 17 December 2022

A festive comedy - the alternative nativity play with the children played by grown-ups!

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THE HYPOCHONDRIAC

Saturday 22 to Saturday 29 October 2022

Enjoy the comical consequences as we enter into a haphazard household hilariously poking fun at a man obsessed by his own imaginary illnesses.

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HAY FEVER

Saturday 11 to Saturday 18 December 2021

Hay Fever is one of Noel Coward's most treasured comedies. Written and set in the 1920s, it is a farce laying bare the family relationships and rivalries in the Bliss country home over one weekend.

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MISS JULIE

Saturday 17 to Saturday 24 September 2022

During one hot Midsummer’s Eve, the aristocratic Miss Julie and her servant engage in a dangerous dance of desire, intimacy and betrayal.

The performance scheduled for Monday 19th September was cancelled as a mark of respect.

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THE CHILDREN

Saturday 18 to Saturday 25 September 2021

A couple in their 60’s who were, once, both scientists in the nuclear industry are living in retirement in a rented holiday cottage by the sea. The routine of their life is altered when an old friend, also a scientist, pays a visit.

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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

Monday 9 August to Saturday 14 August 2021

Antipholus and his servant Dromio arrive in the Wild West of Ephesus - not knowing their identical twins live there already! So begins Shakespeare's slapstick farce, where mistaken identities occur at every turn, leading to twists, turns and lots of laughter. A perfect, light-hearted return to theatre!

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QUARTERMAINE'S TERMS

Saturday 17 to Saturday 24 July 2021

Chronicling several years in the lives of a group of lecturers at a Cambridge School of English for Foreign Students. A gentle and very funny look at seven "lives of quiet desperation".

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LIMITLESS

Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 February 2021

If the world had no limits...

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STAGE FRIGHT

Online from Saturday 31st October 2020

An anthology of horror stories, presented by Richmond Shakespeare Society and live from Mary Wallace Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbJ8PsShc-NlVMCOVeZ6hPw/videos

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SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK

Sunday 20 September 2020

A selection of Shakespeare's most famous scenes performed in Marble Hill Park

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BEN HUR

Saturday 22 to Saturday 29 January 2022

Ben Hur follows Daniel Veil and his three (mostly) willing friends, Crystal, Omar and Edgar, as they attempt to re-create the famous biblical epic on the amateur stage. Daniel has adapted, directed, designed and choreographed the whole piece and is very, very confident it will be a success.

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The All-Female Pallas Players Present "WHISKY GALORE"

Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 December 2020

The All-Female Pallas Players are a troop of women touring the country in 1955 presenting light hearted, beloved tales…. as best they can.

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HENRY IV PARTS 1 & 2

Saturday 9 to Saturday 23 April 2022

Shakespeare’s captivating tale surveys the entire panorama of English life and offers some of his most dramatic moments, iconic characters, and rich exuberant humour.

Moving from comedy to tragedy, an ensemble of twenty-two actors brings this exhilarating exploration of familial ties, national division, treachery and war to life across two epic parts.

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JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Monday 4 to Saturday 9 July 2022

Elizabeth Bennet is a witty, high-spirited, independent woman who has no desire to marry - unless it is to her equal. Is that charismatic George Wickham or aloof Fitzwilliam Darcy?

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THE DUCHESS OF MALFI

Saturday 23 to Saturday 30 October 2021

When the widowed Duchess of Malfi defies her family and chooses a new husband, she unwittingly unleashes a murderous nightmare.

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A LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

Saturday 18 to Saturday 25 January 2020

Telling of one family and its self-discovery over the course of a long August day in 1912, when James Tyrone, a hugely successful immigrant Irish actor has retreated with his wife and two sons to their Connecticut seaside home.

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Saturday 7 to Saturday 14 December 2019

Ebenezer Scrooge is a cruel and selfish money lender who on Christmas Eve is visited by four ghosts...

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DREAM

Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 February 2020

The Young Actors' Company enter a world of higher nature, supernature and illusion, as they invite you to join them in Shakespeare's eternal tale of truth and beauty.

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GOD OF CARNAGE

Saturday 28 May to Saturday 4 June 2022

In this multi-award-winning comedy, first produced in 2006, two couples meet to decide what should be done about the fact that their children have been fighting. One thing is certain … nothing like this must ever happen again!

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SUMMERLAND

Saturday 26 June to Saturday 3 July 2021

The year is 1869. The place is New York City. The dust is settling after the carnage and destruction of the American Civil War...

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Sunday 5 to Saturday 11 July 2009

York House Gardens make a perfect setting for the eavesdropping scenes, the famous verbal duels between Beatrice and Benedick, the villainous Don John, and Dogberry’s bumblingly incompetent watch.

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CONFUSIONS

Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 July 2009

A series of vignettes from the master of modern comedy, performed by our talented youngsters.

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IRON

Saturday 19 to Saturday 26 September 2009

A powerful and resonant play about a woman serving a life sentence, Iron offers tremendous insights – not merely into the nature of life imprisonment, but into the human condition...

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CYMBELINE

Saturday 24 to Saturday 31 October 2009

The world of Cymbeline is that of fairy-tale, ancient legend, and love tested almost to breaking-point. Cymbeline, King of Britain, furious that his daughter Imogen should have married against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law...

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GASLIGHT

Friday 11 to Saturday 19 December 2009

Why does the gaslight flicker? Whose footsteps can be heard in the locked room overhead? Is Bella going mad, as her mother did...?

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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

Saturday 30 January to Saturday 6 February 2010

The curtain opens on two Elizabethans spinning coins. We're not sure who they are, where they are or even when they are....but then again, neither are they!

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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Saturday 6 to Saturday 13 March 2010

Julius Caesar is dead: his right-hand man, Antony, and his legal heir, Octavius, have divided the Roman Empire between them in an uneasy peace. But Antony has become deeply enraptured by the Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra. And she's as ambitious and wily and seductive a politician as any Roman...

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THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE

Saturday 10 to Saturday 17 April 2010

Maureen Folan, a 40-year-old spinster, takes care of her 70 year-old selfish and manipulative mother, Mag. While her sisters have escaped into marriage and family life, Maureen, with a history of mental illness, is trapped in a dysfunctional relationship with her mother...

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THE ODD COUPLE (FEMALE VERSION)

Saturday 15 to Saturday 22 May 2010

Neil Simon wrote this female version of his 1960s hit in response to a demand from American actresses who wanted to perform the play. Oscar and Felix become Olive and Florence...!

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND AND ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 June 2010

Grab your top hats and tea cakes and step into Wonderland with RSS Youth Theatre as they guide you onto each chess square with a little help from a singing Walrus, a sleepy dormouse and a very Mad Hatter.

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A VAMPIRE STORY

Thursday 1 to Saturday 3 July 2010

Two young women arrive in a nameless British small town. Their names are not their own. They don't declare their ages...

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Sunday 25 to Saturday 31 July 2010

Take four runaway lovers, a mysterious forest, a pack of meddling spirits, a motley comic crew and a love potion...

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GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS

Saturday 18 to Saturday 25 September 2010

Times are tough in a New York real-estate office; the salesmen (Shelley Levene, Ricky Roma, Dave Moss, and George Aaronow) are given a strong incentive to succeed in a sales contest...

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A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY

Saturday 23 to Saturday 30 October 2010

Natalya Petrovna is adored and loved by her husband Islaev whilst also providing a secret and unfulfilled romantic focus for his best friend and Natalya's confidante, Rakitin...

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FALLEN ANGELS

Friday 10 to Saturday 18 December 2010

Two happily married women find their lives thrown into comical disarray by news of a "ghost" from their romantic pasts...

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PYGMALION

Saturday 29 January to Saturday 5 February 2011

Henry Higgins, a well off, rakish, Professor of Phonetics makes a bet that he can transform the manners and speech of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle...

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KING JOHN

Saturday 5 to Saturday 12 March 2011

Shakespeare's fascinating study of English power politics strays far from the common image of King John as the weak monarch forced to sign Magna Carta...

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THIS STORY OF YOURS

Monday 11 to Saturday 16 April 2011

Police Detective Sergeant Johnson is a man in extremis, with a failed marriage, recurrent memories of all the terrible crimes he has witnessed, and despair with a world that allows such things to be...

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GORMENGHAST

Saturday 14 to Saturday 21 May 2011

Experience the world of Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake's famous gothic novel. This hugely successful adaptation allows the epic, ghostly world to develop...

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CINDERELLA: OR HOW PIPSQUEAK THE MOUSE BECAME A STALLION - AND - THE CRINKLEY BOTTOM THEATRE CLUB CRISIS

Thursday 9 to Saturday 12 June 2011

'Cinderella...' is a fast paced ride through the adventures of Cinderella the Lumberjack... 'Crinkley Bottom...' is an exciting romp through theatre and movie's best bits...

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TOM PAINE

Friday 1 to Saturday 2 July 2011

This is not a historically accurate or necessarily illuminating play about Tom Paine (the real person) - or the (mythical) revolutionary who was a central figure in English civil unrest, the American War of Independence or the French Revolution, but...

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LITTLE GEM

Sunday 30 October to Saturday 4 November 2011

Love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes. Three generations of Dublin women. One extraordinary year...

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ALADDIN

Friday 9 to Saturday 17 December 2011

Full of Eastern promise, the Arabian Nights, rags-to-riches tale of Aladdin is packed with magic, fun and adventure, making it a pantomime hard to beat...

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TAKING SIDES

Saturday 28 January to Saturday 4 February 2012

Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, prized by Hitler as the cultural jewel in the crown of the Third Reich, became a post-war target for interrogation as a Nazi sympathiser...

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PETER PAN

Thursday 24 to Saturday 25 February 2012

Our production is very different from the more popular modern day Peter Pans; we have attempted to present it in the style Barrie intended, a complete childhood fantasy in which you can fly, fight Pirates, join a Red Indian tribe and make friends with a crocodile...

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Saturday 24 to Saturday 31 March 2012

A hero and heroine who age from nine to middle age, a flight down river, a convict pursued across the marshes, a decaying wedding cake...

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MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Saturday 28 April to Saturday 5 May 2012

While this play explores serious issues, the low life scenes are as funny as anything you will find in Much Ado About Nothing and there is a note of black comedy running throughout the play.

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IN THE CLUB

Saturday 2 to Saturday 9 June 2012

Hapless M.E.P. Philip Wardrobe has a busy day ahead of him, balancing his less-than-irreproachable political career with his attempts to start a family...

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AROUND THE WORLD IN 8 PLAYS

Thursday 28 June to Sunday 1 July 2012

Travel around the world and explore forgotten myths and unusual legends in eight fast-paced and hilarious tales...

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ROMEO AND JULIET

Sunday 15 to Saturday 21 July 2012

This tale of passionate love across the divide of feuding families with its inter-generational conflicts and painful twists of fate provides an array of excellent parts...

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THE FARNDALE AVENUE HOUSING ESTATE TOWNSWOMEN’S GUILD DRAMATIC SOCIETY MURDER MYSTERY

Saturday 22 to Saturday 29 September 2012

A hilarious romp through the worst kind of "Am Dram", with every possible disaster befalling the Townswomen's ambitious mystery show...

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TWELFTH NIGHT

Sunday 24 to Saturday 30 July 2011

Viola, shipwrecked and separated from her (of course) twin brother, seeks to make a life for herself in Illyria at the court of Duke Orsino, disguised, (well, obviously) as a young man...

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DRACULA

Saturday 8 to Saturday 15 December 2012

The fabled figures of Jonathan Harker, the archetypal innocent abroad, Mina Westerman, his anxious fiancé, the prophetic lunatic Renfield, Van Helsing and, of course, Count Dracula himself and his tragic victim Lucy are brought brilliantly to life in this adaptation for the stage...

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THE DEEP BLUE SEA

Saturday 26 January to Saturday 2 February 2013

The story of a passionate love affair which implodes in the course of one day in 1952. Hester is older than Freddie but her desire for him makes Hester leave her respectable husband...

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ONCE IN A LIFETIME

Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 February 2013

Jerry, May and George sell their vaudeville act to migrate to Hollywood with the advent of the talkies.............. and become 'vocal consultants' at Glogauer Studios with all the fun and complications that such a situation can engender...

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RHINOCEROS

Saturday 23 to Saturday 30 March 2013

A small French town on a Sunday morning...The cafe is bustling, the streets full of people going to mass or to market... Suddenly a cloud of dust appears and a rhinoceros charges down the street...

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DESIGNS ON LADIES

Saturday 27 April to Saturday 4 May 2013

Moulineaux, a doctor married to Yvonne, attempts to have his first affair with the wife of Aubin, a retired military man, who is having an affair with the lost wife of Bassinet...

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LEONARDO’S LAST SUPPER AND LAUGHTER (PART II)

Sunday 2 to Saturday 8 June 2013

By turns funny, disquieting, farcical and shocking, these two short plays are radically different from anything else you are likely to see.

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ROBIN HOOD

Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 June 2013

Join Robin and sidekick Egbert on a mission to rescue the beautiful Maid Marion from the clutches of the evil Sheriff of Nottingham (who it has to be said has some very dubious morals)...

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JULIUS CAESAR

Saturday 26 October to Saturday 2 November 2013

Is a benevolent dictatorship sometimes beneficial, even necessary? Are there situations where direct violent action is the most moral course? Can those in power ever be trusted to serve the people they represent, rather than their own interests?

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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

Saturday 7 to Saturday 14 December 2013

Arguably the most popular comedy of the English-speaking stage...

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A TENDER THING

Sunday 26 January to Saturday 1 February 2014

Freely adapting the text of Romeo and Juliet, Ben Power has created a very contemporary tale of love and sacrifice...

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THE CHALK GARDEN

Saturday 1 to Saturday 8 March 2014

The wealthy, elderly Mrs St Maugham thinks she is a good gardener and a wonderful grandmother, but the results suggest otherwise. Can the enigmatic Miss Madrigal help her to succeed...?

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BLOOD WEDDING

Saturday 22 to Sunday 30 March 2014

A modern classic, this passion-fuelled play tells the story of a reluctant betrothal, a surprise elopement and a bloody revenge...

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OTHELLO

Sunday 26 April to Saturday 3 May 2014

Shakespeare's most gripping psychological thriller explores the potentially lethal power of love, deception and, most potently, jealousy...

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FROM THESE GREEN HEIGHTS

Sunday 1 to Saturday 7 June 2014

Brilliantly theatrical, tragic yet tender, From These Green Heights is an extraordinarily kaleidoscopic journey through the lives of two families and four decades...

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HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES

Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 June 2014

Salman Rushdie's work of magic realism follows the young hero Haroun as he sets off on his journey atop a flying bird to save a princess, end a war of darkness, defeat an evil lord and bring happiness to his city...

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MASTER SHAKESHAFTE

Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 September 2014

Discover how Shakespeare spent his infamous ‘Lost Years’. Possibly...

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MONSTROUS REGIMENT

Sunday 2 to Saturday 8 November 2014

It began as a sudden strange fancy... Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time...

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EGAD! THE WOMAN IN WHITE

Saturday 13 to Saturday 20 December 2014

This hilarious spoof of the classic mystery novel is as warming and intoxicating as a glass of Victorian eggnog - a comedic Christmas cocktail of Gothic ghosts, ghoulish gasps, gorgeous gowns... and geriatric gimps...

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UNCLE VANYA

Saturday 24 to Saturday 31 January 2015

Uncle Vanya is arguably the first great modernist drama, full of ambiguities and contradictions, delicately balancing the tragic and the absurd, the farcical and the hauntingly poetic...

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THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR

Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 February 2019

Farce arises from confusion over the identity of the visiting inspector. The local hotel has a guest who is charging all his expenses to the crown and who is clearly important, so the officials are eager to distract him from anything which might arouse his suspicions...

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ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

Saturday 2 to Saturday 9 May 2015

An orphaned girl, hopelessly in love with a young man who longs for freedom, determinedly strives to achieve what she wants while staying within the parameters of honour...

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CORALINE

Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 June 2015

Coraline is a young girl who moves to an old house with her parents. One rainy day, she discovers a locked door that leads to the unoccupied neighbouring apartment...

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THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

Monday 20 to Saturday 25 July 2015

Shakespeare's famous battle of the sexes will burst onto the tranquil Thameside setting of The Fountain Gardens...

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THE ADVENTURES OF DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT

Friday 11 to Saturday 19 December 2015

This brand new version of the traditional story follows Dick and his Cat from their home village to London, and then on to Morocco...

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THE WHITE DEVIL

Saturday 30 January to Saturday 6 February 2016

Sex, murder, revenge and much use of dramatic irony create a world in which characters of questionable moral purpose wisecrack on the edge of the grave...

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THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO

Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 February 2016

Our production is musical, magical, funny, moving and exhausting...!

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WE ARE THREE SISTERS

Saturday 12 to Saturday 19 March 2016

Two hundred years ago, a writer was born. Her family would grow to give us three of the greatest writers this country has known: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. Their lives unfolded, for the most part, in the village of Haworth...

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COLLABORATORS

Saturday 4 to Saturday 11 June 2016

Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both...

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TOAD OF TOAD HALL

Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 June 2016

The nostalgic, quintessentially English tale of four friends: kind and cultured Ratty, mild-mannered Mole, sage and solitary Badger and the crazy, conceited Toad...

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EDUCATING RITA

Saturday 21 to Saturday 28 September 2013

Willy Russell's much loved classic comedy centres on Rita, a forthright and frustrated hairdresser hungry to know 'everything' and Frank, the disillusioned Open University tutor assigned, at first reluctantly to teach her.

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HAMLET

Saturday 26 October to Saturday 2 November 2019

In the rain-soaked streets of modern Denmark, civil unrest is simmering...

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THE FATHER

Saturday 14 to Saturday 21 September 2019

Plunging into the mind of a man whose grasp on reality is gradually fading. Is André living in his own flat or that of his daughter Anne...?

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TOM AND VIV

Saturday 17 to Saturday 24 September 2016

Exploring one of literature's most stormy relationships, between Tom (T. S. Eliot) and Viv (Vivienne Haigh-Wood). The play follows the turbulent and emotional conflict between this tragically mismatched couple...

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VITA & VIRGINIA

Sunday 25 September to Saturday 1 October 2011

This fascinating study of the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West is based on their correspondence over 20 years, from 1922 until 1941...

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KING HENRY VIII OR ALL IS TRUE

Thursday 1 to Saturday 3 November 2012

We all know about Henry VIII - or think we do. But what was Shakespeare's take on the key event that shaped his world?

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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

Sunday 21 to Saturday 27 July 2013

Written at Queen Elizabeth I’s command, this perennially enjoyable and rollicking farce offers laughs galore. Sir John Falstaff – Shakespeare’s most-loved comic character...

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LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

Sunday 20 to Saturday 26 July 2014

The King of Navarre and his three closest Lords take an oath to study for three years, during which time they must not speak to a woman - forgetting that the Princess of France, and her three ladies, are due to arrive...

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NIGHT MUST FALL

Saturday 6 to Saturday 13 June 2015

Wheelchair-bound Mrs Bramson rules her remote Essex bungalow like a tyrant. A stranger arrives: the enigmatic Danny...

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KING LEAR

Saturday 7 to Saturday 14 November 2015

In abdicating power, King Lear loses all...

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BOEING-BOEING

Saturday 23 to Saturday 30 April 2016

Self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard has three fiancees - each airline hostesses with frequent 'layovers'...

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AS YOU LIKE IT

Monday 18 to Saturday 23 July 2016

Witty, bawdy and romantic, As You Like It is the Bard’s great comedy of love...

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KINDLY LEAVE THE STAGE

Saturday 27 April to Saturday 4 May 2019

A comedy of love, fidelity, reality and the stage ...

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ALL MY SONS

Saturday 23rd to Saturday 30th March 2019

A true classic and one of the most celebrated American plays of the twentieth century...

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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

Saturday 5 to Saturday 12 November 2016

Antonio, a merchant of Venice borrows from Shylock, a money lender...

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OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR

Saturday 10 to Saturday 17 December 2016

At turns satirical, funny and deeply moving...

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THE WEIR

Saturday 21 to Saturday 28 January 2017

‘The Weir’, by Conor McPherson, has been widely acclaimed. The play is set in a rural pub in the west of Ireland...

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THE SNOW DRAGONS

Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 February 2017

Raggi and her friends spend their free time in the mountains playing games of Vikings, dragons and war...

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THE HISTORY OF CARDENIO

Saturday 18 to Saturday 25 March 2017

The UK premiere of the most authentic vision of the lost Shakespeare play The History of Cardenio. Leading scholar Gary Taylor has made a lively, credible, theatrically viable reconstruction of Shakespeare and Fletcher's 1612 play...

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THE SEAGULL

Saturday 22 to Saturday 29 April 2017

As summer guests assemble at a country house for the staging of an avant-garde play, artistic temperaments ignite to reveal a more entertaining drama behind the scenes...

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METAMORPHOSIS

Saturday 3 to Saturday 10 June 2017

The arresting opening lines of both story and play describe how Gregor, a hitherto unremarkable young man, wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into...

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THE DEATH OF MISS GLORIA STARR

Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 June 2017

In a small provincial theatre, a cast are getting ready to perform Shakespeare's Macbeth until everything grinds to a halt...

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THE TEMPEST

Monday 17 to Saturday 22 July 2017

Shakespeare's mystical final play will be brought to colourful life with fabulous costumes and original music in the RSS 's latest outdoor production...

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KINDERTRANSPORT

Saturday 16 to Saturday 23 September 2017

On the brink of World War II, nine-year-old Eva is sent to Britain for refuge from Nazi Europe, with little more than a suitcase and an identity label...

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RICHARD II

Saturday 28 October to Saturday 4 November 2017

"...England, that was wont to conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself..."

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THE RAILWAY CHILDREN

Saturday 9 to Saturday 16 December 2017

If ever there was a "timeless" classic tale, this is surely it...

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BETTE AND JOAN

Saturday 20 to Saturday 27 January 2018

Robert Aldrich's 1962 film Whatever happened to Baby Jane? tells the story of Blanche and Jane Hudson...

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ROMEO AND JULIET

Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 February 2018

The tragic story of Shakespeare’s star-cross’d lovers still resonates across the ages and strikes a chord in every heart...

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MACBETH

Saturday 17 to Saturday 24 March 2018

Macbeth' is a play about fear. When first performed in 1606, belief in witches and supernatural intervention in the governance of the realm suggests that this play would have held a real sense of immediacy and danger for the audience...

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THE 39 STEPS

Saturday 21 to Saturday 28 April 2018

Mix a classic Hitchcock film with carefully crafted slapstick, four fearless actors playing over 100 roles and you have "The 39 Steps"...

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JOKING APART

Saturday 2 to Saturday 9 June 2018

Richard and Anthea are the lucky couple who seem to have all the good fortune fall into their lap...

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

Monday 16 to Saturday 21 July 2018

Shakespeare's most popular and delightful comedy – set largely in a wood outside Athens and culminating in a massed wedding...

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LARKIN WITH WOMEN

Saturday 15 to Saturday 22 September 2018

It's 1956, and Philip Larkin, one of England's most famous post-war writers, has just arrived in Hull as the University Librarian...

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JOURNEY’S END

Saturday 27 October to Saturday 3 November 2018

To mark the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI.

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TWELFTH NIGHT

Saturday 8 to Saturday 15 December 2018

A lively cheerful slapstick comedy, set in 1950’s at Christmas.

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HEDDA GABLER

Saturday 19 to Saturday 26 January 2019

Hedda has youth. Hedda has beauty. Hedda has love. Hedda has everything any woman could want...

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PUNK ROCK & BASSETT

Thursday 21st to Sunday 24th February 2019

RSS Young Actors Company welcomes you to a double bill of cutting edge...

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THE LONESOME WEST

Saturday 8th to Saturday 15th June 2019

Welcome to beautiful rural Connemara, where violence, murder and suicide are local recreational activities...

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Monday 15 to Saturday 20 July 2019

True love? True hate? As villainy intervenes, will true love survive?

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CONTACT US

The Richmond Shakespeare Society at The Mary Wallace Theatre
The Embankment, Twickenham TW1 3DU

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