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SEASON I - March 13th to April 19th

"No Love Lost" by Rony Robinson
Directed by Wendy Gare

In this engaging romantic comedy, Kate has decided to leave her husband Max for a theatre studies course. As soon as she's moved to her new flat, her disgruntled father moves in with Max, and to her horror her high-handed mother moves in with her! Max and Kate's two daughters Anna and Emma scheme to bring their parents back together, whilst Max's therapist Noon manages to sort out her own problems but completely confuse Max. Add Max's oblivious car salesman friend Jeff and Anna's high-principled admirer Frank and it's romance all round. . . .


SEASON II - June 3rd to July 5th

"Arsenic & Old Lace" By Joseph Kesselring
Directed by
Andrew Waddington

This hilarious, madcap, classic black comedy is the tale of two charming elderly ladies, Abby and Martha Brewster, who live in Brooklyn, New York. The ladies are well known for their numerous acts of charity, which unfortunately include poisoning (with delicious home made elderberry wine) lonely old men whom they have helped to "find peace". They then leave it to their bugle blowing nephew Teddy (who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt) to take the bodies to the Panama Canal (the cellar) and bury them. The mounting comedy and mayhem peak with the bungling local cops trying to make an arrest. A macabre classic American comedy farce. 


SEASON III - August 21st to September 20th

"The Lady in the Van" by Alan Bennet
Directed by Malcolm Sussman

Alan Bennett, the author of this wonderful piece of subtle yet irresistible dramatic dynamite, writes of a true episode in his life. In 1974, he encountered Miss Mary Shepherd, a cantankerous old eccentric, who lived in her decrepit and smelly Bedford van in his street in Camden Town. He eventually allowed her to briefly park her van in his front garden - except that what he had intended as a short stay turned into one of 15 years. This is a play shot through with rueful sadness, but generously packed with jokes. A bracing mix of wit, remorse and stimulating debate.


SEASON IV - November 4th to December 6th

"Two and Two Together"
By Derek Benfied
Directed by Robin (RC) Miller

Rachel's husband Victor never suspects that she is keeping an assignation with a young man in the house of her good friend Georgina. Why should he? He has other things on his mind - in the shape of the said Georgina, who he is meeting secretly while her husband Henry, an actor, is safely occupied in the theatre. The suspicions of the stuttering Neighourhood Watch warden and of Mrs Capstick the cleaning lady are aroused when they see the comings and goings of the two couples, and when Henry returns home unexpectedly they are forced into a riotous whirlwind of intrigue and lies... A decidedly saucy end to 2008!



Our thanks to Martin Nixon for the graphics.

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