We are thrilled to be hosting, another celebrity Benefit Evening, on Saturday, 23 September, at 7.30. Following her coup in organising [...]

Catherine is mourning the recent passing of her father, Robert, a maths professor. Feeling vulnerable she worries that she has inherited Robert's inclination towards mental instability, as well as his maths genius. Into the equation comes Hal, an ex-student of her father's, who wants to study the hundreds of notebooks left behind after his death, looking for any work that could be published. Catherine assures him that the notebooks are filled with scribbles and nonsense as her father wrote them when he was at his most delusional. But then Hal makes a sensational discovery that threatens to turn everyone's world upside down!

Justin and Julie-Ann, hopelessly mismatched in love, are about to introduce their respective parents to each other over dinner - Justin's upper-crust alcoholic mother from Surrey and Julie-Ann's bigoted Yorkshire father and prim mother. Enter Paige Petite, a former lap-dancer with suicidal tendencies, who appears on their balcony having dropped from the flat above, followed shortly after by the thick, gun-toting minder employed by her violent boyfriend!

The SPRG plans another reading of Pyrenees by David Greig, on Wednesday 6 December, at 7.30pm in the Little Theatre bar. In [...]

The Social Play Reading Group will be reading Me and My Friend by Gillian Plowman, on Wednesday, 7 February. This 'hilarious and [...]

By Amanda Whittington, directed by Jenny Gore Be My Baby is an uplifting tale of hope, friendship and survival, with a swinging sixties soundtrack! Set in 1964, it follows the fortunes of Mary Adams, aged 19, unmarried and seven months pregnant. Mary ends up in a Mother and Baby Home, in the north of England, where she meets other young women in a similar predicament. Despite the dawning realisation that their babies are to be given up for adoption, the girls' youthful exuberance breaks through, as they sing along to the songs of the period - by girl groups such as the Ronettes, and the Shangri-Las.

The next play chosen by the Social Play Reading Group, A Night Out, by Harold Pinter, has a very topical theme. Pinter's first big [...]

The next play for the Social Play Reading Group will be a saucy comedy, Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue, s'il vous plaît! by David [...]

By Patrick Hamilton, directed by Hannah Stow What terrors lurk in the shadows, for Bella Manningham, when her husband mysteriously disappears from the house, and the gas lights dim? This classic psychological thriller, by Patrick Hamilton, set in a Victorian world shrouded in fog, and lit by flickering gaslight, uses every device to unsettle its audience. We share Bella’s growing apprehension and self-doubt. Is she going mad as her husband claims? Gaslight has been a popular hit since it was written in 1938, enjoying a recent revival with Kara Tointon as the tormented spouse. Please join us as we embark on a nail-biting journey into the Haunted House of Horrors!

There will be an open audition, on Wednesday, 2 May, 7.30pm, to cast the plays short-listed for the inaugural new play Festival - [...]