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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
HENRY V
Saturday 22 to Saturday 29 April 2023
A nation divided, war on the horizon, a new king with everything to prove…
TERRY PRATCHETT'S WYRD SISTERS
Saturday 18 to Saturday 25 March 2023
Macbeth meets Hamlet meets Granny Weatherwax!
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.
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...
THE HOLLOW
Saturday 21 to Saturday 28 January 2023
A classic Christie country house whodunnit complete with the customary red herrings for breakfast…
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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".
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
SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK
Sunday 20 September 2020
A selection of Shakespeare's most famous scenes performed in Marble Hill Park
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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...
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.
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!
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...
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.
CONFUSIONS
Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 July 2009
A series of vignettes from the master of modern comedy, performed by our talented youngsters.
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...
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...
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...?
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!
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...
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...
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...!
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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)...
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?
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Saturday 7 to Saturday 14 December 2013
Arguably the most popular comedy of the English-speaking stage...
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...
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...?
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...
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...
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...
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...
MASTER SHAKESHAFTE
Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 September 2014
Discover how Shakespeare spent his infamous ‘Lost Years’. Possibly...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO
Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 February 2016
Our production is musical, magical, funny, moving and exhausting...!
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...
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...
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...
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.
HAMLET
Saturday 26 October to Saturday 2 November 2019
In the rain-soaked streets of modern Denmark, civil unrest is simmering...
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...?
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...
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...
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?
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...
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...
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...
KING LEAR
Saturday 7 to Saturday 14 November 2015
In abdicating power, King Lear loses all...
BOEING-BOEING
Saturday 23 to Saturday 30 April 2016
Self-styled Parisian lothario Bernard has three fiancees - each airline hostesses with frequent 'layovers'...
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...
KINDLY LEAVE THE STAGE
Saturday 27 April to Saturday 4 May 2019
A comedy of love, fidelity, reality and the stage ...
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...
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Saturday 5 to Saturday 12 November 2016
Antonio, a merchant of Venice borrows from Shylock, a money lender...
OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR
Saturday 10 to Saturday 17 December 2016
At turns satirical, funny and deeply moving...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
RICHARD II
Saturday 28 October to Saturday 4 November 2017
"...England, that was wont to conquer others Hath made a shameful conquest of itself..."
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
Saturday 9 to Saturday 16 December 2017
If ever there was a "timeless" classic tale, this is surely it...
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...
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...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
JOURNEY’S END
Saturday 27 October to Saturday 3 November 2018
To mark the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI.
TWELFTH NIGHT
Saturday 8 to Saturday 15 December 2018
A lively cheerful slapstick comedy, set in 1950’s at Christmas.
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...
PUNK ROCK & BASSETT
Thursday 21st to Sunday 24th February 2019
RSS Young Actors Company welcomes you to a double bill of cutting edge...
THE LONESOME WEST
Saturday 8th to Saturday 15th June 2019
Welcome to beautiful rural Connemara, where violence, murder and suicide are local recreational activities...
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Monday 15 to Saturday 20 July 2019
True love? True hate? As villainy intervenes, will true love survive?