Production display option: Past productions

The hard-working, hard-drinking miners of the Glee Club are preparing for their local gala. This is the summer of 1962, and Britain and music are about to change. Will anything ever be the same again?

2019 saw the return of this production. Told with wicked humour and a great ear for dialogue, Andrea Dunbar’s semi-autobiographical play is a vivid portrait of girls caught between brutal childhood and an unpromising future, both hungry for adult adventure.

Our 2019 tour, co-produced with Royal & Derngate Northampton and Oxford Playhouse. 2017 Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s masterpiece of memory and regret. As fires rage through Europe during and after the second world war, The Remains of the Day exposes the terrible choices hidden behind the manicured gardens and formal dinners of an English stately home.

Cormack, Findlay and Davies are the first generation of female soldiers to serve in the British infantry in close combat roles, ever. And now they’re about to join the action. Kate Bowen’s taut, funny and powerful thriller follows three very different, pioneering young women in the world’s most dangerous workplace.

Trish leads a youth theatre group designed to bring together Asian and White teenagers. As she struggles to share her artistic vision with a cast who think acting is “gay”, the compelling stories of the young stars unfold, along with a moving history of their town. Take your seat at their final dress rehearsal… with […]

‘Mum, I had a dream last night where I threw you down the stairs. It’s not right.’ For Hildy, political activism comes easier that dealing with the disorder of her family life: Her druggie son; her philandering husband; her father, misbehaving in a hugely expensive retirement home. And then there’s her mother – a charismatic […]