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Season 54 Play 6 – The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller’s play draws parallels between the 1692 Salem witch-hunt and the McCarthyism that gripped America in the 1950s and depicts a society in which evil is unleashed in mindless…
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Season 54 Play 5 – Out Of Order by Ray Cooney
When Richard Willey, a Government Junior Minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington (one of the Opposition’s typists) things go disastrously wrong, beginning with the discovery of a…
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Season 54 Play 4 – Give Me Your Answer Do by Brian Friel
David Knight is staying at the remote County Donegal home of novelist Tom Connolly and his wife, Daisy. Visiting for the August afternoon are successful novelist Garret Fitzmaurice and his…
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Season 54 Play 3 – Feed by Tom Elliott
In the Havencrest Nursing Home for the elderly, Harry Troop struggles to regain his identity as a star of the music-hall stage. The tetchy old man insists he is not…
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Season 54 Play 2 – Far from the Madding Crowd by Matthew White
Passion, melodrama, earthy humour and a strong gripping plot are vividly conveyed in Matthew White’s adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel. The scene is Dorset in the mid 19th century. Bathsheba…
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Season 54 Play 1 – Gym and Tonic by John Godber
Don and Shirley Weston have come to the Scardale Hall Health Hydro to relax, pamper themselves and possibly rescue their ailing marriage. Don proves himself hilariously incompetent at step aerobics,…
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