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Theatre
Playwriting Festival: Thriller & Comedy Runners-up
Runners-up of the Playwriting Festival are presented as rehearsed readings in our recently created community space, Kemp's Rest in the theatre's lower courtyard. This week's programme: The Sentences by Billy White, and Oops! I Swallowed A Pipe Bomb! by Alex Wiseman.
Playwriting Festival: Adaptation & Drama Winners
Winners of the Playwriting Festival's Adaptation and Drama categories are presented on the main stage. Adaptation Winner: The Perfect Pain by JH Harvey. Drama Winner: Crossed Wires by Karl Minns.
Playwriting Festival: Drama & Adaptation Runners-up
Runners-up of the Playwriting Festival are presented as rehearsed readings in our recently created community space, Kemp's Rest in the theatre's lower courtyard. This week's programme: The Unmarked Grave by Richard Hand, and Two Fake Blondes by Ray Steen.
Playwriting Festival: Comedy & Thriller Winners
Winners of the Playwriting Festival's Comedy/Farce and Crime/Thriller categories are presented on the main stage. Comedy & Farce Winner: God And His Best Friend The Devil by David Terry. Crime & Thriller Winner: Schrödinger by Jason Bright.
Normal for Norman
"Normal for Norman” is a feel-good series of amusing musings which explore the world as experienced by Norman as he simply gets on with life.
Dads Army
Join Captain Mainwaring and the hilariously hopeless Home Guard platoon as they bumble their way through red tape, mishaps and surprises for a riotous night of comedy, courage and unforgettable wartime antics.
Miss Julie
Seductive and spiteful, Barefaced Theatre's debut performance of Miss Julie offers a raw, visceral adaptation of a renowned classic.
The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter's "The Dumb Waiter” follows two hitmen, Ben and Gus, who are awaiting orders. As they engage in absurd conversations, the dumb waiter delivers mysterious messages, escalating the tension and exploring themes of class, power and authority. Following the show, there will be a free Q&A with the actors.
Chopped Liver and Unions
History, we are told, is written by the victors. More often, it is rewritten by the forgetful. Chopped Liver and Unions resurrects a voice that defies erasure—Sara Wesker. Sara led the “singing strikers of 1928”, battled fascists at Cable Street, and helped to shape the radical politics of…
Jekyll and Hyde
Only weeks after being sworn in as a member of the medical profession, Dr Stevenson finds herself in charge of her first ward, the first woman doctor appointed at the hospital – and playing detective to a strange case involving the highly respected Dr Henry Jekyll, and a murderous criminal, Mr Edward Hyde.