Sticks and Stones
by Vinay Patel
September 10-14, 2019
Director: Guy Jones
Sometimes we can’t find the right words. Sometimes the wrong word just slips out. Sometimes the right words become the wrong words. In an age when technology can multiply and amplify every mistake, can we find a way to truly understand each other? [More]
Di and Viv and Rose
by Amelia Bullmore
September 24-28, 2019
Director: Jo Boniface
Aged 18, three women join forces. Together they feel unassailable. Crackling with wisdom and wit, Di and Viv and Rose is a humorous and thoughtful exploration of friendship's impact on life and life's impact on friendship. [More]
The Night Heron
by Jez Butterworth
October 8-12, 2019
Director: Lisa Thomas
The sighting of a rare bird attracts attention to a remote part of the Fens but the visiting birdwatchers cannot know what dangers lie in the freezing darkness of the marshes. In an isolated cabin this dark, funny and spellbinding play about a group of outcasts and eccentrics unfolds with unexpected results. [More]
Lear
by William Shakespeare
October 22-26, 2019
Director: Bex Law
Lear’s grip on her country is fading. The war with climate change is all but lost, her daughters are fighting over the scraps and the rain is raining every day. As Britain fractures, will a ray of hope shine through? [More]
How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found
by Fin Kennedy
November 5-9, 2019
Director: Barry Heselden
Charlie is at breaking point and something needs to change. He embarks on crazy journey to change the only thing he can, himself. Along the way he encounters, a fortune teller, a priest, a pathologist and lots and lots of lost property. [More]
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
by Hugh Wheeler / Stephen Sondheim
November 22-30, 2019
Director: Lee Ridgeway
Victim of a gross injustice that robbed him of his wife and child, Sweeney Todd sets about exacting his terrible revenge. But as the bodies pile up what's to be done with them? Todd and accomplice Mrs Lovett have an ingenious idea ... Pie, anyone? [More]
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, adapted by Neil Bartlett
December 12-21, 2019
Director: Mark Ireson
Using only Charles Dickens’ extraordinary words and an ensemble of eight actors, the quintessential story of ghosts, greed and goodwill is given boisterous new life in this chilling, contemporary, fresh production.
Jumpers For Goalposts
by Tom Wells
January 14 - 18, 2020
Director: Will Howells
Barely Athletic’s coach Viv dreams of winning the league – or at least not coming last. But Geoff is distracted by the opposition, Joe is distracted by grief, and Luke and Danny are distracted by each other. A hilarious comedy drama about love, loss, friendship and five-a-side football.
Consent
by Nina Raine
January 28 - February 1, 2020
Director: Andy Webb
Friends Ed and Tim take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged.
Holes
by Tom Basden
February 11 - 15, 2020
Director: Naomi Liddle
Stranded on a desert island after a plane crash, it's up to four survivors to preserve their humanity - and possibly the entire human race. Just as soon as they've dealt with all the duty free.
Good
by CP Taylor
February 25-29, 2020
Director: Lisa Thomas
What makes a good man? It’s a question John Halder asks himself - it is something he believes himself to be. But this is 1930s Germany and the choices a person makes may be the difference between good and profound evil. A brilliant fable on morality in a turbulent time.