Our 2020 shows
THE HOLLOW
By Agatha Christie
Directed by Murray Stephen
Tuesday 18 to Saturday 22 February at 7.30pm
Tickets: adults £14, children/students £10
A game of romantic follow the leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow. Dr Cristow, a Harley Street lothario, is at the centre of the trouble when assembled in one place, are his wife Gerda, his mistress Henrietta and his former lover, Veronica. Also visiting are Edward and Midge. When Cristow is shot dead, nearly everyone has a motive.
THE NOMADS IN THE STUDIO
CHESHIRE CATS
By Gail Young
Directed by Marion Millinger
Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 March at 7.45pm
Tickets: adults £12, children/students £10, Grown women, aching feet and heaving bosoms! Follow the Cheshire Cats team as they speedwalk their way to fundraising success in the London Moonwalk. Cheshire Cats is a cross between a girls night out and a real mission to support a cause close to many hearts, with plenty of laughs and a few tears along the way
HONEYMOON SUITE
By Tony Layton
Directed by Peter Cornish
Tuesday 21 to Saturday 25 April at 7.30pm
Tickets: adults £14, children/students £10,
Three couples occupy the honeymoon suite of a country hotel. Couple 1: Jeff a middle-aged rocker and his devoted and quick-witted PA. Couple 2: Gaynor a northern lass and Sam a barrow boy from Essex. Couple 3: Enrico, a suave middle-aged romeo and Paula an astute, attractive middle-aged woman. Francis, the porter has seen it all before, nothing surprises him. The same can’t be said of his guests as they each find out something surprising about their partner.
IN ASSOCIATION WITH BOOKHAM LIGHT OPERATIC SOCIETY
PRINCESS IDA
By W.S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Directed by Jackie Shearer, Musical Director Roger Wilman, Choreographer Gill Eve Wednesday 20 to Saturday 23 May at 7.30pm
Matinee on Saturday 23 at 2.30pm
Tickets: adults £16, children/students £12
Princess Ida founds a women’s university and teaches that women are superior to men and should rule in their stead. The discovery of a disguised prince at the university to whom she had been married in infancy results in a war between the sexes
THE NOMADS IN THE STUDIO: TWO ONE-ACT PLAYS
MY SECOND BEST BED
By Barry Syder
Directed by Moyra Brookes
Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 June at 7.45pm, Tickets: adults £12, children/students £10
It’s generally believed Shakespeare cared little for his wife which was endorsed by his strange bequest to her, of his second-best bed. This delightful piece makes one reconsider.
TWO SISTERS
By Caroline Harding
Directed by TBC
Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 June at 7.45pm
Tickets: adults £12, children/students £10
Set in a village in 1880’s Russia, Anya and Sonia are goaded into remembering things they’d rather forget from their early life, upon discovering an empty coffin in Anya’s lodgings. Twenty-five years before, they both fell in love with the same man. The coffin acts as a catalyst to Anya as she tells how, before he died, she tried to protect Sonia from discovering the truth about André……..
TBA: SHOW BY THE NOMES
Presented by The Nomes
Friday 3 and Saturday 4 July at 7pm
Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 July at 2pm
Tickets: adults £10, children/students £7
PLAY IN A WEEK
Directed by Brandon McGuire
Saturday 1 August and Sunday 2 August at 2.30pm and Saturday 1 August at 7.30 Tickets: £13
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Andrew Hamel-Cooke
Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 September at 7.30pm
Tickets: adults £14, children/students £12
Lucentio loves Bianca but cannot court her until her shrewish older sister Katherina marries. The eccentric Petruccio marries the reluctant Katherina and uses a number of tactics to render her an obedient wife. Lucentio then marries Bianca and, in a contest at the end, Katherina proves to be the most obedient wife.
TWO ONE-ACT PLAYS
HISTORY FOR THREE
By Leo Baker
Directed by TBC
Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 October at 7.30pm
Tickets: adults £14, children/students £12,
It is June 4th, 1940. Celie lives with her parents on the Kent coast. In the night they have heard the sound of guns.. Celie’s father went out the previous night on a mysterious errand and hasn’t returned. Celie’s husband Jim is with the army in France; she has dreamed that the postman calls with a telegram from the War Office……..
BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS
By Dennis Potter
Directed by Jackie Shearer
Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 October at 7.30pm
Tickets: adults £14, children/students £12
This deceptively simple tale relates the activities of seven English children played by adults on a summer afternoon during World War II.
THE NOMADS IN THE STUDIO
SHOW TO BE CONFIRMED
Directed by Elaine Burns
Tuesday 10 to Saturday 14 November at 7.45pm
Tickets: adults £12, students/children £10
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
By Lewis Carroll
Adapted and Directed by Graham Botterill
Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 December at 7.30pm, matinee Saturday 19 at 2.30pm
Tickets: adults £16, children/students £10
This is a new adaptation of this wonderful children’s tale by the Noda Award-winning team.