2024 productions
12–14 September 2024
Curiosity Killed The Caretaker
By Patricia Gay
Join us for a unique play – a Murder Mystery set in 1953, just one week after Queen Elizabeth the Second’s Coronation.
Immerse yourself in the post-Coronation setting of the Jubilee Hotel for Retired Gentlewomen and don’t forget to pay special attention to the characters’ actions and listen for clues.
The play consists of four scenes. The first two scenes will have short intervals between them in which to discuss the clues and evidence that have been presented. After the third scene, there will be a final interval to consolidate your evidence and hand in your completed ‘accusation sheet’ with the name of the murderer and any motives. The final scene will reveal the murderer after which the winners will be revealed and prizes awarded.
13–15 June 2024
Family Album
By Alan Ayckbourn
Chronicling the trials, tribulations and temptations of three generations of one family across 70 years in the same home.
We are first introduced to RAF veteran John and housewife Peggy as they proudly move into the first home they can call their own; then years later their now grown-up daughter Sandra, frantically negotiating the challenges of her 10-year-old daughter Alison's birthday party without her AWOL husband; and then Alison, also as an adult, now married and about to finally escape the house she has somehow unwillingly inherited.
25–28 January 2024
Robinson Crusoe
By Tom Whalley
Robinson Crusoe has always had an appetite for adventure! Living with his mother Dame Crusoe, his washed up, but flirtatious father, Captain Crusoe and his silly billy brother Sprat, Robinson has no desire to take over the family Fish ‘n Chip shop. He wants to sail the Seven Seas and make his fortune.
Meanwhile, the high seas are terrorised by the evil pirate, Captain Blacktashe, searching high and low for the treasure map where X marks the spot. But the map was lost years ago, where can it be? Will Robinson find the treasure before Captain Blacktashe? Will Dame Crusoe and teh Captain end up battered? Will Sprat ever sort out his record collection? And what is that mysterious bit of folded paper on the back of the chip shop menu?
