Upcoming Shows
Below is the list of our upcoming shows. We also have an archive of photos and cast/crew lists from past productions.
All evening performances start at 7:45pm and matinees at 3pm unless otherwise specified. The theatre bar will be open from 45 minutes before the start.
Ticket sales: Tickets for American Buffalo are now on sale. Tickets for the other autumn shows will be available approximately four weeks in advance (23 September for Arden of Faversham, 11 November for The Unexpected Guest, 1 January for Table Manners). Please make sure that your membership is up-to-date if you wish to purchase reduced price member tickets; join or renew your membership.
Upcoming Auditions: Auditions for our January show, Table Manners, will be on Monday 30 September, after an informal reading on Monday 23 September (audition notice). All are at 7:45pm in the Mary Wallace Theatre. Non-members are welcome to attend readings and auditions, however must join as a full member before the start of rehearsals if cast.
The RSS has a YouTube channel. This includes performances created remotely during lockdown such as Shakespeare Shorts, a series of monologues by individuals from across our membership, and our Swan Award-winning Halloween anthology Stage Fright. You can also see the trailers for some of our recent shows as well as the no holds barred documentary on the making of Ben Hur by the Daniel Veil Theatre Collective.
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".
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