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Season 53 Play 5 – Quartermaine’s Terms by Simon Gray
Set in a school of English for foreigners, this humorous chronicle of seven teachers over a number of years allows us a view, from the staffroom, of school management. We…
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Season 53 Play 4 – Run For Your Wife by Ray Cooney
John is a taxi-driver with one eye always on the clock – not for the fare, but to preserve the tight schedule required to keep his two wives happy Not…
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Season 53 Play 3 – Whale Music by Anthony Minghella
A tale of modern manners, enforced self sufficiency, poverty, unwanted pregnancy and a failing marriage. But also a wonderful story of the joy and heartbreak of bearing and rearing children,…
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Season 53 Play 2 – Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
In the Californian agricultural belt during the 1930s men sought work wherever they could find it, drifting from ranch to ranch, rootless and ungoverned except by the need to do…
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Season 53 Play 1 – Under The Stars by Richard Crane
Stella and Regina have spent their lives preparing for the Big Day when they would be asked to step into the shoes of the ageing classical actresses for whom they…
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Season 52 Play 8 – Neville’s Island by Tim Firth
A newspaper headline might read – ‘Shipwrecked on a deserted island on…. DERWENT WATER?? The writer of the play describes it as “A comedy in a thick fog’. Four men,…
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