Francis Bacon: described by Mrs Thatcher as “that dreadful man who paints those horrible pictures´, he remains one of the most challenging and controversial artists of all time. It’s impossible not to react to his work, or to Pip’s compelling performance. Francis Bacon could spend his mornings painting, his afternoons and evenings drinking champagne and…
Looking uncomfortably like the Führer, Pip stands before a Nazi banner addressing his party faithful. He furnishes his audience with an acute anatomy of fascism; its ideological justifications; its poisoned utopias. They are in the presence of an utterly compelling idealist, and are helplessly drawn into his warped logic. What made Adolf Hitler so compulsive?…
Welcome to the Wild Wild West for Rich Lock’s new original Pantomime. The local Saloon is in danger of becoming a casino in a small town on the Prairie! Will the Sheriff get his way? Will the Indians be any help? Will the Derby race have a good outcome? And why is there a rabbit that keeps…
The Long Road by Shelagh Stephenson Directed by Caroline Drewett-Mansell A poignant exploration of family dynamics, resilience and the human capacity for healing. A fascinating thought provoking play. Modern,contemporary and very relevant, this play is a study of loss and the true nature of forgiveness.
A 7-course Tapas meal in Bar Imperial followed by a performance of Last Tango in Little Grimley, Directed by Sharon White and Penny Grant a laugh-a-minute comedy about an amateur theatre group facing extinction.
Blithe Spirit is a comic play by Noël Coward, described by the author as “an improbable farce in three acts”. The play socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he…
Staged over three nights, An Evening of Pocket-Sized Plays featured six mini-plays written by resident playwright Phil Mansell. The event was a great success with tickets selling out within days of going on sale. Each play was approximately 10 minutes long , with a cast of no more than three people and minimal set and…
Beauty and the Beast is, in many ways, a “tale as old as time.” A fairy story hundreds of years old. It tells the story of Beauty and the Beast’s journey –taken from a classic French fairy tale, to award-winning Disney animated feature, to one of the world’s most produced stage musicals, it is as…
