Monday 6th - Saturday 11th October 2008
The Farce
“Just Desserts”
By Marc Camoletti
Directed by Rod Goddard
Performances begin at 7.30pm
A worthy follow-on from the hit farce
‘Don’t Dress For Dinner’. Bernard and Robert are lifelong friends. Unfortunately Robert is having a dalliance with Bernard’s beautiful wife Jacqueline. Bernard has discovered the secret and in Jacqueline’s name invites Robert to dinner to surprise him with an astonishing ultimatum..... thus the scene is set for two hours of riotous comedy.
When can I book tickets?
Monday 24th - Saturday 29th
November 2008
The Thriller
“Strangers on a Train”
By Craig Warner
From the novel by Patricia Highsmith
Directed by Andrew Wilson
Performances begin at 7.30pm
A dramatisation of the novel which is substantially different from the well known Alfred Hitchcock film. In 1950s America two strangers meet on a train; Guy Haines, a staid architect, and Charles Bruno, a flamboyant, charming but unstable playboy. Being strangers they ‘...can say anything they like...’. As they discuss the dilemmas of their lives Bruno suggests a solution which draws them into a nightmare from which neither can wake.
When can I book tickets?
Saturday 17th - Saturday 24th January 2009
The Traditional Family Pantomime
"Robin Hood & the ---- -Babes in the Wood"
By Peter Denyer
Directed by Chris Sturmey
Matinees at 2.30pm. Evening performances at 7.30pm.
A classic panto from the pen of Peter Denyer. The Sheriff of Nottingham’s rich brother has left for the Crusades, leaving his children Janet and John in the care of the evil Sheriff who abandons them in the forest. Enter Robin Hood to the rescue with all the Sherwood Forest regulars. Add in Robin’s penchant for instant wealth redistribution, the
Spirit of the Greenwood, Nurse Norah and Herman the Henchman and you have all the ingredients for fabulous fun-filled entertainment.
When can I book tickets?
Monday 9th - Saturday 14th -
March 2009
The play
“Mrs. Warren’s Profession”
By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Sue Oldham
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Performances begin at 7.30pm.
In 1894 Vivie Warren, a self-confident young woman,
graduates from Cambridge with outstanding brilliance.
The world is at her feet. Suitors or careers could claim her future. But one idyllic summer evening her mother reappears, in the company of the sinister Sir George Crofts. Vivie is impelled to investigate her own good fortune and the exact nature of ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession’. Banned from public performance for many years this drama is a landmark of the English theatre.
When can I book tickets?
Monday 4th - Saturday 9th-- -
May 2009
The Medieval Musical Romp
“The Canterbury Tales”
By Martin Starkie and Neville Coghill
Adapted from Geoffrey Chaucer
Directed by Carole Wilson
Performances begin at 7.30pm.
Lively and colourful, bawdy and rumbustious,
this delightful Martin Starkie and Neville Coghill
musical version wittily blends five tales from Chaucer’s marvellous epic to serve up an appetizing dish certain to
satisfy all tastes.
When can I book tickets?
Monday 22nd - Saturday 27th June 2009
The Play
“Death and the Maiden”
By Ariel Dorfman ------------------------------------
Directed by Peter Wright
Performances begin at 7.30pm.
Fifteen years ago Paulina, a citizen of a fragile South American democracy, was picked up by the police, blindfolded and interrogated with savage and humiliating ferocity. Tonight her husband has come home in the company of a man she is convinced was her torturer. Now the three are trapped in the gripping passionate deadlock of this stunning political thriller.
When can I book tickets?
Tuesday 7th - Saturday 11th
July 2009
Partington Theatre’s
One Act Play Festival
We welcome entries from new and established theatre groups. Full details later.
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