SAY IT WITH FLOWERS

Fresh off the back of their latest amateur dramatics production, the Parish Players learn that circumstances beyond their control are forcing them to abandon the Parish Hall. Without anywhere to stage their plays, they decide to pull on their gardening gloves and enter the regional ‘Village in Bloom’ competition in order to express their artistic…

VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, A

A modern classic, the central character is a longshoreman who, though of limited intelligence and articulacy, is an admirable man. When two of his wife’s Italian cousins are smuggled into the country, he makes room for them in his home. Gratefully they move in with his family, including the teenage niece whom he has brought…

DEAD HEAVY FANTASTIC

It’s always been mad in Liverpool on a Friday night.  You can find sex, drugs and karaoke.  Find the world in one city.  Find your youth and lose a friend amidst the hens and stags.
As he waits for his blind date with Cindy, lonely heart Frank has no idea of the mad,…

CRUCIBLE, THE

This exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salem is both a gripping historical play and a timely parable of our contemporary society. The story tells “how small lies - children’s lies - build and build until a whole town is aroused and 19 men and women go to the gallows for…

CASTRO'S BEARD

On the eve of Fidel Castro’s historic visit to the United Nations Assembly in 1960, a clandestine meeting takes place in Washington DC – a CIA think tank is hastily assembled whose sole aim is to take down the Castro regime.  From the beginning, no idea is too far-fetched for this group, as the tactics…

REUNION, THE

It’s good to meet up with old friends . . . or perhaps not!

When Nigel arranges a reunion in the back room of a pub, he is optimistic of a good turnout. Whilst the numbers disappoint him, he soon has his hands full when a motley middle-aged threesome turn up, bringing with them assorted…

WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS

Three women of a ‘certain age’ gravitate to Paris. There’s Nancy, a retired headmistress determined to throw off the shackles; Anna, recently widowed – and free – after years of nursing a sick husband; and Raquel, a divorcee in search of eternal youth and a new toy boy. A feel-good play with laughter and tears,…

HYPOTHERMIA

Oskar lives in the state hospital in Andernach, Germany. Although a patient, he helps Dr Erich by keeping the other patients in order, joking with the staff, singing opera and tending to a fine collection of plants in the conservatory. And then, in the bleak winter of 1940, a dark visitor arrives, an old colleague…

MY DOG'S GOT NO NOSE

My Dog’s Got No Nose takes us on a journey through the events surrounding a stand-up comedian’s first ever performance. Before picking up his microphone and venturing into the limelight, he regales stories and tales about his life and experiences. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes poignant and often laugh-out-loud hilarious, he shares his soul reminiscing…

SLEEP NO MORE

This new supernatural thriller is set in a theatre that has been closed for sixty years following the accidental death of a child during rehearsals for Murder by Poison, a Victorian thriller. Now Micky, the great-grandson of the theatre’s original owner, has set about restoring the theatre to the glory of its former heyday, and…

HOW TO BE HAPPY

We all want to be happy. We all know what it feels like. But what if it keeps slipping through our fingers?

Paul is a former happiness guru. As a young man he wrote self-help books and appeared on the television as ‘Mr Happy’. But now his marriage has failed and his career as a…

ALL MY SONS

The story concerns the fortunes of the Keller and Deever families. During the war, Joe Keller and Herbert Deever ran a machine shop which made aeroplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. Keller, however, went free and made a lot of…

IMPERIAL FIZZ

A seemingly carefree high-society couple swill cocktails and exchange witty banter and pointed barbs as they sing and dance to melodies transmitting from a classic RCA radio in their swanky art deco apartment. They are persistently and comfortably tipsy and obviously relish a (mostly) good-natured verbal joust. They are awaiting the arrival of a very…

THE SWALLOWING DARK

Canaan thought he’d left a violent and dangerous past behind when he and his son arrived from Zimbabwe, until new case worker Martha decides to re-examine his refugee status and he’s forced to fight for their lives for a second time. But when lives depend on it, is the truth always the best story to…