IN 1949, a struggling American writer, hoping to indulge her love of beautiful books, started a correspondence with a firm of British antiquarian booksellers that was to last 20 years.
The warm, compassionate exchange of letters was published as a book and has been lovingly adapted for the stage.
84 Charing Cross Road is presented by Lymington Players at the Malt Hall theatre from Tuesday to Saturday.
Call 01590 672337.
n BOUNCERS is a brilliant comedy set outside a Northern club in the 1980s with the four bouncers playing a host of characters from teenage girls to hairdressers and burger van owners.
Author John Godber described the play as “a celebration of the fantastic Bacchanalian aspects of urban nightlife”.
As Lucky Eric says in the opening speech of the play: “all human life is inevitably here.”
It is essentially a highly comedic piece, but beneath the humour lies some pathos and serious social comment.
Shakers is set in a trendy cocktail bar during Maggie Thatcher’s ’80s, seen through the eyes of four cocktail waitresses in another hilarious offering from John Godber.
Shakers, like Bouncers, is fast, furious and funny.
Bouncers and Shakers are presented by Titchfield Festival Theatre at St Margaret’s Arts from Wednesday to Saturday.
Box office: titchfield festivaltheatre.com or call 01329 556156.
n MEMBERS of Collingwood RSC bring Mary Shelley’s famous characters to life in Frankenstein.
The show will be staged at The Millennium Hall of Fareham’s HMS Collingwood from Wednesday to Saturday.
Box office: 07502 037922.
