This play is due to be performed from the 26th - 31st July 2010 and rehearsals will begin May 10^th.

To be directed by Judy Challis. Scripts are available from the Green Room.

This modern Pulitzer Prize winning drama is set in Chicago and explores the fine line between genius and mental instability.

 On the eve of her 25^th birthday, Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert, must deal not only with his death but also with the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and with the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind. As Catherine confronts Hal’s affections and Claire’s plans for her life, she struggles to solve the most perplexing problem of all: How much of her father’s madness or genius will she inherit?

 Characters: Catherine (25), Robert (50s), Hal (28), Claire (29).

 Audition passages: Page 7  Robert “My advice if you find yourself awake...” to bottom page 9 “Not the same thing”  Robert and Catherine

Bottom page 14 Hal “I don’t have to do this” to bottom page 17 “I know Mathematics” Hal and Catherine

Page 23 two thirds way down, Claire “How are you feeling about everything” to page 27 Catherine “Well people are nice to you” Catherine and Claire

In the aftermath of a near apocalyptic crisis, a handful of young survivors have found one another, and against all odds, have made a home in the empty shell of the past. But when a stranger enters their midst with the promise of a hope they had only dared to dream of, will they risk everything to be reunited with the world that left them all behind?

Tickets are just £5.50, and performances start at 7.30pm.

Get your ration books at the ready - we’re having an end-of-the-war party! Step back in time and join us for a nostalgic evening. Experience the flavour of wartime Britain. A fun evening with plenty of surprises! No set table numbers, but you will need your identity card and ration book, purchased in advance from Sharon at £8.00 per person. Be sure to wear the correct clothes for the period!

Victor and Harlan are two philosophy professors who have been friends, rivals and inveterate pranksters since their student days, but things have changed.  Victor has turned into a wild hedonist in keeping with his belief that “when you’re dead, you’re dead”, while Harlan has become a dull stoic leading a strict unemotional existence in preparation for the afterlife.  They are on holiday with their long-suffering wives in the Canadian wilderness, and Victor has devised a prank which he believes will prove the falseness of Harlan’s philosophy and shake him out of his passionless state – but the prank goes horribly wrong.  After a heated argument a shot is fired, and one of the professors lies dead.  This is far from the end however, it is just the beginning of a nightmare......or is it?

Tickets are £7.50, and the performance starts at 7.30pm each night.