Past SLT Seasons
Season:
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Directed By Penelope Lipsham
Adapted by George Tabor, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a satire of Hitler’s rise to power. It’s a cautionary tale that warns against populist politics and corruption of power....
Date: 16 - 20 Jan 2024
Time: 19:30 - 22:30
Jekyll and Hyde (Youth Theatre show)
Directed By Greg Williams, Mattea Thomas-Gray, Siobhán Campbell
Date: 6 - 10 Feb 2024
Time: 19:30 - 21:30
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Directed By Miriam Nice
Visually modern but with the classic text.
The wedding of Theseus (local Duke) and Hippolyta is being planned. Meanwhile, the successful business owner, Egeus, is unhappy with their child Hermia’s choice of fiancé, Lysander. Egeus would much rather Hermia married Demetrius. Hermia doesn’t have feelings for Demetrius but their friend Helena does…...
Date: 20 - 24 Feb 2024
Time: 20:00 - 22:30
Orca
Directed By Sarah Louise Pearcey
Midsummer. The village must choose a new Daughter to sail with the fishing boats and bless the waters, keeping them safe from the roaming orcas for another year.
Fan hopes with all her heart to be chosen. But her sister Maggie says she must never go with the boats. Because something happened to Maggie out there. Something no-one will admit....
Date: 5 - 9 Mar 2024
Time: 20:00 - 21:30
Copenhagen
Directed By Peter Stevens
In 1941, two physicists, Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, met in Copenhagen. The details of this meeting remain a mystery, but its ramifications reverberate through the world today. In this multi-award winning play by Michael Frayn (Noises Off), the wit and wisdom of great minds will have you laughing, thinking and questioning the fabric of reality....
Date: 19 - 23 Mar 2024
Time: 20:00 - 22:15
Mayfly
Directed By James Jackson
In a delicate dance between humour and loss, Mayfly encapsulates a family's fragile journey towards hope. Ben harbours doubts about his worth, Cat awaits a prophesied newcomer, and their daughter Loops stands on the brink of new love. Set over the course of a single day against a backdrop of rural isolation, the unexpected appearance of Harry catalyses a transformation....
Date: 2 - 6 Apr 2024
Time: 20:00 - 22:00
One for Sorrow
Directed By James Tibbles
When Imogen invites John into her family home following a terrorist attack, they are forced to confront their ethics head-on; he is not what they expected - different to them. Cordelia Lynn's bitingly funny and tense drama explores the limits of middle-class liberalism across the generational divide. Can they learn to match their morals with their actions?...
Date: 16 - 20 Apr 2024
Time: 20:00 - 22:00
Jerusalem
Directed By Charlotte Benstead
It's St. George's Day and the morning of the local county fair. The May Queen is missing, the villagers are nursing their collective hangovers, and all are immersed in the world of the man and the myth, Johnny "Rooster" Byron. Apart from his cohort of hangers on, the council want to evict him, others want revenge, and his son just wants to be taken to the fair....
Date: 30 Apr - 4 May 2024
Time: 19:30 - 22:30
The Liar
Directed By Mark Ireson
The Liar by David Ives, adapted from the comedy by Pierre Corneille.
"All the world's a lie, and all the men and women merely liars.”
Dorante is charming, handsome - and a pathological liar. Newly arrived in Paris, his outlandish tales amaze and convince all who hear them, but for each problem his clever lying solves, it creates two new ones. Especially that one with the pomegranates....
Date: 14 - 18 May 2024
Time: 20:00 - 22:30
Two
Directed By Jess Osorio
Two is a real-time, one-scene snapshot of life in a local pub on a weekend evening. The spotlight falls on the couple who run the pub then pairs of their customers and always back again, pulling various relationships into focus. The landlord and landlady are suppressing their sad secret while they paint on smiles for their customers.
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Date: 28 May - 1 Jun 2024
Time: 20:00 - 22:00
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Directed By Lily Ann Green
What would you do if you had an active, witty and creative brain but could no longer do even the simplest task for yourself? Overnight, Claire has gone from being a successful sculptor with an active social life and devoted partner to being a quadriplegic unable to do anything for herself but think and speak. Her life is literally in the hands of the medical professionals.
...Or so they suppose....
Date: 11 - 15 Jun 2024
Time: 20:00 - 22:15
Gundog
Directed By Yohann Philip
Anna, Becky and Ben struggle after the death of their mother leaves life in flux. Their grandfather is haunted by the past, their father looms in the present and disease among the sheep makes the future uncertain. As they question their survival, along comes Guy, a stranger seeking his own resolution.
'Gundog' was commissioned by and first produced at The Royal Court Theatre London in 2018.
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Date: 25 - 29 Jun 2024
Time: 20:00 - 22:30
Queers
Directed By Jack King
Queers celebrates a century of evolving social and political milestones in British gay history. Seven monologues for seven performers of varying ages: some funny, some tragic, all of them casting an entertaining spotlight on how life was to be gay in the last century.
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Date: 9 - 13 Jul 2024
Time: 20:00 - 22:00