Productions

Oliver Twist - Adapted by Nigel Bryant from the original by Charles Dickens

Performed: 10th - 14th May 2011
Director: Mark Smithers

Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker, from whence he escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is lead to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin, naively unaware of their unlawful activities.

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Alphabetical Order by Michael Frayn

Performed 8th - 12th February 2011
Director: Yvonne Collins

The library office of a provincial newspaper is a scene of utter confusion - the cluttered chaos of the room matching the lives of its staff. It is also a scene of warmth and light-heartedness. In comes Leslie, a new young assistant with a passion for organisation who transforms the office and the lives of its inhabitants into something orderly and neat - and also arid and colourless. An announcement that the paper is to close leads to a struggle between chaos and order.

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Fatal Encounter - by Francis Durbridge

Performed: 12th - 16th October 2010
Director: Derek Hibbard

Howard a well-known book publisher, is concerned for his wife, Joanna. Since returning from the country, she has become unusually distressed, nervous and mysterious. The play takes a sinister turn when Howard arrives home to discover Perry Kingsley and Joanna at his home after a terrible accident.

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