Double Bill of One Act Plays

DOUBLE BILL OF ONE ACT PLAYS

Oct 6th – 11th 2025

Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Skinner

Director TBC

It’s a hot summer’s day in 1943 and seven children play, laugh, sing and cry somewhere in the woods just before tea-time. In a whirl of constant activity, their lives are brim-full of joy and horror, anxiety and delight.

Dennis Potter’s affectionate study captures the traumas of childhood beneath the apparently innocent surface. He reminds us that adults are children who have simply substituted subtlety for spontaneity.

That rose-tinted nostalgia for the ‘blue remembered hills’ of our youth is not always justified.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner

Directed by Gil Burns

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? This play imagines a world where we’re forced to say less.

Sam Steiner tells the story of Bernadette and Oliver, a young couple trying to come to grips with a society that has an imposed limit in which each person is only allowed to use up to 140 words in a single day. It explores this imposition from their two perspectives as they negotiate life, love and conflict with ever less options on how to communicate their feelings.

The non-linear narrative flits from past to present, exploring how the couple navigate through turbulent waters as Steiner strips the text and the characters to their emotional core.

TICKETS AVAILABLE JANUARY 2025

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