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11 - 15 Feb 2025: RAODS presents: September in the Rain by John Godber
11 - 15 Feb 2025
RAODS presents
September in the Rain by John Godber
A RAODS Green Room Production
While Jack and liz sit waiting for the bus home, they take us on a journey of sweet and sad memories of their annual holidays to Blackpool.
September in the Rain is an evocation of a lost working-class way of life, with something a little darker below the surface. The play follows the life and holiday of Liz and Jack, John Godber’s own grandparents, based on the stories they told at length, over and over again.
Jack is a miner down the pits in Yorkshire, Liz his long-suffering faithful wife. The pits close for a week in September, so every year they holiday in Blackpool in a cheap, grubby, backstreet guesthouse – September being an ideal month for a week in Blackpool! The play tells their story, from the present and the past. We see them on their holidays and hear them narrate their tales, meeting some of the characters they encounter along the rocky road.
13 - 14 Feb 2025: Chesil Youth Theatre presents: Fantasy and Farce adapted from Lewis Carroll
13 - 14 Feb 2025
Chesil Youth Theatre presents
Fantasy and Farce adapted from Lewis Carroll
The junior section, aged 8-12 years, are visiting the fantasy world of Lewis Carroll performing Alice in Wonderland by Brainerd Duffield. Combining Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, when Alice plunges down the rabbit hole, she must move across the chess board to be crowned queen and make her way home. Along the way she encounters a mad tea party, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the White and Red Queens, a caterpillar on a mushroom and much more. This is very much an ensemble piece with the 15 actors creating over 25 characters.
A fast-paced farce is the choice of the seniors. Director Nicky Hubbard has again adapted a classic piece for them. Last year this was Aristophanes’ Greek comedy Lysistrata, now the challenge is the 18th century style of Commedia delle’ Arte in Carlo Goldini’s The Fan (Il Ventaglio). Candida is flirting with Evarist when her fan falls into the street and breaks. Besotted by love, Evarist vows to replace the fan to earn her affection. However, the replacement mistakenly ends up in everybody else’s hands instead of his intended, with misunderstandings, confusion and hilarious consequences.
24 Feb - 1 Mar 2025: Maskers presents: Bill Bryson's Notes from a small Island
24 Feb - 1 Mar 2025
Maskers presents
Bill Bryson's Notes from a small Island
Based on the Sunday Times best selling book!
Maskers bring to life the travels of author Bill Bryson as he lives and works in Britain. Arriving in Dover in 1973 Bryson arrived in Britain from Des Moines, Iowa, with no idea what to expect, and quickly discovered it wasn't so bad, really. Reflecting back on his travels, we encounter many of the people he met, and they highlight the joys and quirks of our funny little island. From formidable bed and breakfast proprietors to Tube station buskers, the bobby on the beat to trainspotters, tour guides and drinkers in a Glaswegian pub, these characters guide Bryson the length and breadth of the country, as he navigates not only the oddities of his new home, but also the ups and downs of life.
As he travels, he starts to realise something strange - can he really be starting to feel at home?
25 - 29 Mar 2025: Hamble Players presents: Black Coffee by Agatha Christie
25 - 29 Mar 2025
Hamble Players presents
Black Coffee by Agatha Christie
Accomplished physicist Sir Claud Amory has constructed a working formula for one of the most deadly weapons known to man – the Atom Bomb. Hercule Poirot is called in after the formula is stolen and and Sir Claud murdered.
31 Mar - 5 Apr 2025: Maskers presents: Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
31 Mar - 5 Apr 2025
Maskers presents
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Why did Heisenberg travel to Copenhagen?
In 1941 Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg met in Copenhagen. The two scientists had been friends and colleagues working on quantum mechanics in the 1920s but had been separated by World War II. The meeting was a disaster. What was said between the men has puzzled historians ever since. In this play Michael Frayn imagines another meeting taking place in the spirit world where Heisenberg, Bohr and his wife Margrethe once again try to find the answers.
Copenhagen won the Tony Award for Best New Play in 2000.
2 - 5 Apr 2025: Cheriton Players presents: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2 - 5 Apr 2025
Cheriton Players presents
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Our next production will be The Hound of the Baskervilles, a gloriously funny makeover of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story.
When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his Dartmoor estate, with a look of terror etched on his face and the paw prints of a gigantic hound next to the body, the great detective, with Dr Watson in tow, is summoned to solve the mystery and investigate the ancient curse of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
5 - 12 Apr 2025: Chesil Theatre presents: Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
5 - 12 Apr 2025
Chesil Theatre presents
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
A riveting psychological thriller that wrestles with truth and doubt, asking many questions.
Set in a country recently transitioned from a long period of dictatorship to a democratic government, a woman tortured under the previous regime recognises her torturer by chance. Is she right? Should she take revenge into her own hands? When should justice and punishment cede to compromise and forgiveness, if only for the greater good?
Contains adult themes, strong language and some violence
17 - 24 May 2025: Chesil Theatre presents: Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner
17 - 24 May 2025
Chesil Theatre presents
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner
“Doesn’t matter what we’re saying. We just need to be loud.”
Opposites attract in this quirky romantic comedy exploring a new world where the government imposes a Hush Law, limiting everyone to 140 words a day. How can a couple find their way through love and intimacy, discovering how to communicate in the silence … about dead cats, activism, democracy, free speech and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.
19 - 24 May 2025: Maskers presents: Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
19 - 24 May 2025
Maskers presents
Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
You won’t want to miss these hilarious Christmas parties!
Three couples, Three Christmases, Three kitchens.
Can the Hopcrofts impress their bank manager and his wife?
Can Geoffrey Jackson pull off a Christmas party despite his wife mental state - if the guests can get past George, the dog, that is?
Can the Brewster-Wright's enjoy Christmas Eve without the Hopcrofts' exuberant appearance?
A lot can happen over three years and, in this black comedy, it certainly does!
Inside every one of us hides a Singularly Absurd Person...
...do you recognise yours?
12 - 19 Jul 2025: Chesil Theatre presents: Shakespeare In Love based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
12 - 19 Jul 2025
Chesil Theatre presents
Shakespeare In Love based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall, with music by Paddy Cunneen
Will Shakespeare – in trouble, in debt, and in love. What could go wrong?
A lively comedy with music, based on the much-loved film. Penniless and anxious, young William Shakespeare is struggling with writer’s block until he meets Viola de Lesseps, who secretly longs to be an actor. The action moves swiftly between theatres, Greenwich Palace and the teeming London streets of 1593.