Jul 21, 2024
Bleak Expectations
Tickets on sale now! Opening at the Limelight Theatre on 12th September, Bleak Expectations is a show being first performed at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury in 2022.
This play is best described as a “Glorious Dickenson Romp” that Charles Dickens himself may have written after drinking too much gin.
Based on the much-acclaimed drama by Mark Evans, based on a story and a drama with A Dickenson with a dash of Monty Python, along with following half-orphan Pip’s extraordinary exploits with sisters Pippa and Poppy and best friend Harry Biscuit.
Watch as they attempt to escape the calculating clutches of the dastardly Mr. Gently Benevolent, defeat the hideous Hard thrasher siblings and deflect disaster at every turn.
May 20, 2024
Hands on a Hard Body
Performance dates are scheduled for June 27th, 28th, 29th, July 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th, 12th, 13th at 7.30pm with a matinee on July 7th at 2pm.
Directed by David Nelson and Jane Anderson
Musical Director Shaun Davis
Based on S.R. Bindler’s 1997 documentary, ‘Hands on a Hard Body’ follows the individual lives of ten contestants battling for a “hardbody” truck in Longview, Texas.
A new lease on life is so close they can touch it. Under a scorching sun for days on end, armed with nothing but hope, humour and ambition, they’ll fight to keep at least one hand on a brand-new truck in order to win it.
Dec 9, 2023
An Inspector Calls
Showing Feb 22, 23, 24, 29, Mar 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 @ 7.30 pm and a Matinee on Sunday Mar 3 @ 2pm. 2024.
Directed by Gordon Park.
Set in 1912, an upper-class English family are spending the evening celebrating the engagement of their daughter when they are abruptly interrupted by a police inspector. He explains he is investigating the suicide of a young woman and the events that occurred leading up to her death.
May 21, 2023
Full Circle
Showing 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th (Matinee),18th, 19th, 20th May
Curtain up 7:30pm Evening, 2pm Matinee
Written by Janet Shaw
Directed by Barry Lefort
A comedy drama that explores a family’s current relationship problems that have resulted from a single decision taken forty years earlier. Dee and Millie haven’t spoken since 1969 and no one knows why. That’s how it would have stayed until fate took a hand when Brian and Linda, their respective children, met and married. Now they tolerate each other on social occasions but avoid each other whenever possible. It is the week of their only granddaughter’s wedding, and it is physically impossible to dodge the inevitable confrontations.
May 21, 2023
Tartuffe
Showing 7th, 8th, 9th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th (Matinee), 21st, 22nd, 23rd September
Curtain up 7:30pm Evening, 2pm Matinee
Directed by Gwen Browning
Tartuffe is a hilarious romp based on the original Moliere comedy. This modern English version by Tim Mooney, is fast-paced, saucy and very funny. It satirises religious hypocrisy, blind piety and naivety.
When the religious and odious Tartuffe wheedles his way into the wealthy Orgon’s good books, he is taken into his home and given the best of everything. Outwardly pious, but inwardly lustful, Tartuffe, is promised Orgon’s daughter Mariane’s hand in marriage. This does not go down well with the rest of the family, who see through his hypocrisy and his crafty manipulations and join forces to plot against him and expose him for what he is.
