Diary for 5 December, 2025 - 5 December, 2025

The Social Play Reading Group meets next on Wednesday, 3 May, at 7.30pm, and will be reading Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen. Though [...]

The Christmas Concert was such fun, we've decided to schedule another night of music and song! On Saturday 20 May, at [...]

The next meeting of the play reading group will be on Wednesday, 7 June, at 7.30pm, in the theatre bar. The Social [...]

Young, handsome lawyer, Charles Bradford Raye is visiting the small city of Melchester on business, when he meets, and seduces Anna, an attractive country girl, at the local carnival. Anna has recently come to Melchester to work in the service of Edith Harnham and her husband, an elderly vintner. Charles returns to London, and writes to Anna, not knowing that she is illiterate and cannot read the letter. Anna begs Edith to write a letter for her, which she does, and the lovers fall into a regular correspondence. Anna begins by dictating the letters, but soon Edith edits and embellishes and even writes entire letters without Anna’s knowledge. Charles is astonished that an ill-educated country girl could write so well, and he begins to fall in love with the letter-writer. Then Anna finds herself ‘in a delicate situation’, and the plot thickens.

You are invited to a free concert, A Little Light Music for a Summer Evening, at the Little Theatre, on Saturday 1 [...]

There will be a casting, read-through of Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious comedy Roleplay on Sunday, 3 September, at 7pm in the theatre [...]

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 - [...]

By Abi Morgan, directed by Mike Bellenie The playwright, Abi Morgan, and celebrated theatre company, Frantic Assembly, collaborated on this unforgettable love story, about the 40-year marriage of Maggie and Billy, as Maggie’s illness threatens to end it. Past and present collide. The kitchen and bedroom of Maggie and Billy's house, where the walls were never scribbled on by longed-for children, are stalked by the ghosts of their younger selves: the smooth-skinned, radiant Margaret and William. An old woman walks into the wardrobe and a young woman walks out. An elderly man dances with the memory of his young wife; a young man makes love to the woman his new wife will eventually become. Lovesong is a radical departure for the Little Theatre, as the production will feature the unique choreography, for which Frantic Assembly is famous.

We now have confirmed dates for a casting read-through, and audition, for 'Allo 'Allo!, the Little Theatre's October production. Rachel Peter, [...]

With happy memories of last year's concert, Hebden Bridge Little Theatre Choir will again welcome the Chris Irvin Concert Orchestra from Leeds, [...]

The inaugural Hebden Bridge Little Theatre Play Writing Festival - Play Write! - takes place on Friday and Saturday, 20-21 July 2018. The winning entries to our one-act play writing competition, will be performed for two nights at this special event. The judges will announce an overall winner, who will receive a trophy, and the audience favourite each night will also receive a prize. Tickets costing £10 will go on sale nearer the time. Performances commence at 7.30 pm. If you would like to enter, contact: Vaughan Leslie (vaughanleslie@hotmail.com), who will email you further information about the competition, including submission guidelines. The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2018.

Little Theatre member, Maddie Cullinane's one act play, All Things White and Beautiful, is the basis of this month's social play [...]

By Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, directed by Rachel Peter Adapted from the long-running, popular TV series, ‘Allo ‘Allo! centres around René Artois the cowardly cafe-owner with an eye for the ladies, who gets caught up in the madcap escapades of the French Resistance, whilst all the time trying desperately to ingratiate himself with the occupying German forces. The stage adaptation features the familiar running gags, and all your favourite characters, such as René's tone-deaf wife Edith, Major-General von Klinkerhoffen and the Gestapo officer Herr Flick. ‘Allo ‘Allo! is broad comedy, with elements of farce, physical comedy, visual gags, ridiculous fake accents, and a large amount of sexual innuendo. What’s not to like?!

Following a very successful meeting in September, which focused on Maddie Cullinane's entry to our play writing competition, the social play reading [...]

We will be auditioning for the first play of the new season, If I Were You, by Alan Ayckbourn, at 7.30pm [...]

The social play reading group enjoyed reading Chris Berry's entry to our play writing competition, at the October meeting. Chris has [...]

By Patrick Barlow, directed by Ray Riches Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, in 2007, Patrick Barlow’s play is based on the Buchan novel and Hitchcock film, about adventurer Richard Hannay, who is forced to go on the run from an international spy ring, at the outbreak of the First World War. In this spoof version, all the characters are played by four actors, who portray between 100 and 150 roles, even doubling parts within the same scene. These quick changes are achieved by cunning use of props and costume, contributing to the general hilarity. Further humour comes from the ingenious use of props – to represent trains and planes on stage, in a variety of unexpected ways!

We will be holding our Traditional Christmas Concert on Saturday 8 December, at 7.30pm. At a cost of £5 only, we [...]

The Social Play Reading Group meets next on Wednesday, 6 February, at 7.30pm, to read Bus Stop, by Rae Shirley, and an extract from Visiting Hour, by [...]

By Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Vaughan Leslie Mal and Jill’s family life is beset with problems. Mal is having an affair, [...]

The Social Play Reading Group will meet next on Wednesday 6 March to read two short one-act plays that will be [...]

By David Greig, directed by Jenny Gore A man is found lying in the snow at the foot of the Pyrenees. [...]

The annual Christmas Concert takes place on Saturday 14 December at 7.30pm, and will be compèred for the first time by Gil Burns. [...]