by Terence Rattigan
directed by Muriel Kidd
20th -
2010 -
It is Ireland in the mid 17th century
and an English landowner's son, married to a Irish woman,
is beginning to develop his small estate. A story of romance
passion and treachery unfolds against the backdrop of the
English policy to clear large areas of Catholics and Royalists
when Cromwell planted the seeds of The Troubles.
By Sam and Bella Spewack
directed by Ray Harris
6th -
by Ned Hopkins
directed by John Oakenfull
14th -
Three paroled convicts from the local prison
in French Guiana intervene in the lives of an innocent
family which is perched on the brink of financial ruin.
Proficient in the illicit skills of theft, forgery, extortion
and murder, our unlikely heroes arrive in timely fashion to
remind us all what is truly important.
When Chief Constable Henry Potterton arrives
at the country house of his late brother Bernard he is
astonished to find scantily-
not knowing that the housekeeper has turned it into a
'house of sin'. Hilarious comings and goings ensue as
the household is thrown into confusion and chaos.
By Derek Benfield
directed by Susan Adam
11th -
Hester Collyer is emotionally desperate
having left her husband for a semi-
pilot whose ardour has cooled. She loves him but
cannot live with him, unlike her husband whom she
can live with but cannot love. An attempted suicide fails
and she wrestles with her inner turmoil.
We meet again Cecily and Gwendolen
who got married in 1895 at the end of Oscar Wilde's The
Importance of Being Earnest. This new family drama, specially
written for Theatre 62 by one of its members, explores how their lives might have changed in the maelstrom of the early 20th Century,
after 20 years of marriage.
by Helen Edmundson
directed by Patricia Melluish
4th -
