What’s on

Wed 22 – Sat 25 May • 7:30pm • Full £12 • Community Theatre

By Richard Bean

Merriman Productions present Richard Bean’s award-winning play – a glorious celebration of British comedy: a unique, laugh-out-loud mix of satire, songs, slapstick and glittering one-liners.

Brighton, 1963, an easily confused Francis Henshall becomes separately employed by two men – Roscoe, a local gangster and Stanley Stubbers, an upper-class criminal. However, Roscoe is really Rachel Crabbe in disguise, her twin brother Roscoe having been killed by her lover, none other than Stanley Stubbers. Meanwhile, Pauline was originally meant to marry Roscoe but is now set to elope with over-the-top amateur actor Alan Dangle. All Francis has to do is stop them all from meeting each other… Simple?!

Wed 8 – Sat 11 May • 7:30pm • Full £12/13 Concs £10/11 • Community Theatre

By Arnold Ridley

Presented by Bath Drama

A dark and stormy night in the waiting room of a remote Cornish railway station in 1919, where a group of stranded passengers are thrown into a state of terror by the tales – and appearance – of a mysterious ghost train which kills anyone who looks at it…

This classic thriller is part of Bath Drama’s centenary season, chosen because the author was a member of the club before he went on to fame as Private Godfrey in ‘Dad’s Army’.

On Saturday 11th there is a special gala performance to celebrate Bath Drama’s centenary. Tickets for this show are £13/£11 and a glass of bubbly is included in this price. More details will be announced soon.

Wed 3 – Sat 6 Jul • 7.30pm • Full £12 Concs £10 • Community Theatre

Written by Stephen Briggs
Presented by Rondo Theatre Company

Moist von Lipwig (and that’s just the beginning), was a con artist, a fraud, a criminal. He was given a choice: certain death or get the Ankh-Morpork Postal Service back in business. It was a tough decision.

He’s not alone in his mission – he has a Golem who has been in a hole in the ground for hundreds of years, a man who knows nothing about pins (he knows everything about pins), and Junior Postman Groat (anything but junior) to help him get the mail through! He’s got more than the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk company to fight… and getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart (she hates it too) would be nice as well.

Fri 31 May • 7.30pm • Full £10 Concs £8 • Community Theatre

Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis 
Presented by The Actor’s Wheel

This is a story about choices and consequences and a journey through time and place. A host of historical, fictional and biblical characters gather in a makeshift courtroom in purgatory with Judas at the centre of it all, catatonic with despair and unable to defend himself in a trial that debates the motives of Christianity’s least popular apostle.

‘If betrayal is the ultimate sin, then is forgiveness the ultimate sign of grace?’ Michael Billington (The Guardian)