IN this romantic comedy, a newlywed couple (Paul and Corie Bratter) move into their first home, a tiny fifth-floor New York apartment, with the apparently mismatched pair sparring over day-to-day marital issues whilst linked by their mutual passion for each other.
NICK Dear’s biographical drama follows the final years of poet Edward Thomas (a compelling Crispian Cook), through his strained marriage, passions, depression, life-changing friendship with American poet Robert Frost (a captivating Mick Keegan) and adoration of family friend, Eleanor Farjeon (a mesmerising Fi Beresford), to a two-year period in which he hit a rich vein of poetic creativity before his tragic untimely death on French battle fields in 1917.
TONIGHT AT 8:30 is a collection of nine one-act plays written by the incomparable Noël Coward, split into three trios in a collaborative production by Nuffield and English Touring Theatre.
The sinister, dysfunctional Tomb family awaits the reading of their late patriarch’s will (involving millions of pounds), each eccentric family member having their own twisted reasons for wanting the money. Very rarely venturing into the outside world, they live in the cocoon of their home, Monument House: one wanders round in a toga convinced he is Julius Caesar, another has werewolf tendencies, while a third delights in killing people off with her poisonous brews. It isn’t long before the body count rises...
HAPLESS café owner René tries to please everyone: his wife, his mistresses, the occupying Germans and the French resistance, while running his little café and attempting to stop the portrait of the Fallen Madonna falling into enemy hands.
THE opening of this trio of comedies involved four very different mothers-to-be plus one father at their first Parentcraft class – but they’re short of one midwife.
INFAMOUS Inspector Pratt returns to the scene of previous investigations at Bagshot House when one of his officers goes missing.
UGLY is the youngest duckling but looks very different to his brothers and sisters, who pick on him as a result. Lured away from his loving mother by a scheming cat, he soon becomes lost. This delightful musical version of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling follows Ugly’s adventures as he searches for his way home.
THIS group have developed a reputation over the years for staging good quality community theatre – and this was no exception! Despite unfortunate technical sound difficulties, they once again delivered a thoroughly entertaining pantomime.
IT IS Christmas Eve in 19th century St Petersburg in the sumptuous family home of Dr Pavlov.
