Productions

An Inspector Calls - J B Priestley

Performed: 11th - 15th May 2010
Director: Marion Kendrick

A three-act drama, which takes place in a single night in 1912 and focuses on the prosperous middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in Brumley. The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman, Eva Smith (also known as Daisy Renton).

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Ghost Writer - The Haunting Comedy by David Tristram

Performed: 9th - 13th Febuary 2010
Director: Gary Swain

At the last-night party is one Edward Pinfold, a promising young playwright, and husband of the talented but tempestuous actress, Ruby, who had played Ophelia.

Tragically, that very night, Ruby - a renowned reveller with a reputation for burning the candle at all three ends - is found dead in bed.

An overdose of naughty pills and booze. The theatre world went into a state of mourning that barely lasted into the afternoon. One year later, however, Edward remains deeply affected. Unable to face the emotional torment of living in his own home, he has moved into the attic room of one of his oldest actor friends, Alex.

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California Suite - A Comedy by Neil Simon

Performed: 13th - 17th October 2009
Director: Bill Parkinson

A Visitor from New York, Hannah Warren is a Manhattan workaholic who flies to Los Angeles to retrieve her teenaged daughter Jenny after she leaves home to live with her successful screenwriter father William. The bickering divorced couple is forced to decide what living arrangements are best for the girl.

Conservative middle-aged businessman Marvin Michaels is the Visitor from Philadelphia, who awakens to discover a prostitute named Bunny unconscious in his bed after consuming a bottle of vodka. With his wife Millie on her way up to the suite, he must find a way to conceal all traces of his uncharacteristic indiscretion.

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