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"The course of true love never did run smooth"

Shakespeare’s riotous tale of magic and mayhem unfolds over a single summer’s night. Four lovers, a feuding king and queen of the fairies, and six amateur actors become embroiled in each other’s stories as confusion reigns in the woods.

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One story, four lives - navigating a twisted maze of discrimination and survival

"Somebody must have made a false accusation against Joseph K, for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong" - Franz Kafka, The Trial. Emily White's adaptation entwines the torments of discrimination and injustice into a witty physical performance as four diverse individuals play Joseph K battling within the big bureaucratic machine.

Copyright & Licence |An amateur production by arrangement with Independent Talent.

"Shall then, for that I am her brother born,
My joys be ever banished from her bed?"

Forbidden love between brother and sister leads to tragic consequences. This Jacobean masterpiece offers verse to rival Shakespeare, tragic roles as challenging as Ophelia and Juliet – and a villain more treacherous than Iago.

Guidance –This play explores adult themes and includes depictions of violence as well as exhibiting 17th century attitudes that may be abhorrent today.

A Young Actors Company production.

Grace has something growing inside her. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands. It has claws. But she can't contain it forever. Sooner or later something's got to give…

Guidance - mention of mild body horror imagery and violence.

Copyright & Licence
‘The IT’, is an amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books

London in the Blitz, and love is fleeting: time to make hay.

Bobby, the young Earl of Harpenden, has begged for leave from the Royal Navy to marry his fiancée, Lady Elizabeth. But on the eve of the wedding a beefy American airman and an impulsive Free French lieutenant also fall head over heels for the bride-to-be.

Guidance – Some characters and dialogue reflect stereotypes and attitudes of the time the play was written (1943)

Copyright & Licence | This amateur production of “While the Sun Shines” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

Fifty years ago, Alan Ayckbourn’s acclaimed trilogy, The Norman Conquests, opened in the West End. Following the events of a weekend in a faded middle-class abode in the south of England Table Manners (set in the dining room) is the best known.

Guidance – This play was written in 1973 and reflects the language and attitudes of that time.

Copyright & Licence
This amateur production of “Table Manners” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

In the mist of deception, everyone's a suspect.
Who will reveal the truth?

Guidance – Contains the use of guns and gunfire. Some characters and dialogue reflect stereotypes and attitudes of the time the play was written (1958).

Copyright & Licence
This amateur production of “The Unexpected Guest” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

Fog on the down. Snow falls in hell. Arden must die.

Alice Arden plots to kill her husband.
With the aid of her lover, servants, neighbours and professional killers, it takes many attempts that are both savagely comic as well as tragic. Are they incompetent, or just unlucky?

Guidance – This play explores adult themes and includes depictions of violence, as well as exhibiting 16th-century attitudes that may be abhorrent today.

Looking after number one, that's all good business is.

1975. From a rundown Chicago junk shop, three petty criminals plan a robbery of a rare 'American Buffalo' nickel coin.

Guidance - Contains extremely offensive, racist and homophobic language, and scenes of violence.

Copyright & Licence –
This amateur production of “American Buffalo” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

A Junior Actors Company production.

“Finding the epic in the ordinary”

Copyright & Licensing Information
Selection from ONE MILLION TINY PLAYS ABOUT BRITAIN by Craig Taylor. Copyright © 2009, Craig Taylor, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.

A Young Actors Company production.

"When Bad Choices Lead to Unlikely Bonds, can Redemption Break the Spell?"

A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that their cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their once fractious lives, where is the incentive to put things right?

Copyright & Licensing Information:
This amateur production of “DNA” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd.
on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

“Have you ever loved someone?”

Cyrano de Bergerac, a man of countless talents and one very prominent nose, yearns for the love of the beautiful Roxane.

GUIDANCE: 11+ Contains scenes of period warfare including swords and musket fire, smoke effects and scenes that some people may find distressing.

Copyright & Licensing Information:
This amateur production of “Cyrano De Bergerac (Maxwell)” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals

"Sometimes, the most audacious escapes are plotted in the most unlikely of places."

In a retirement home for old soldiers, three elderly veterans while away their days with tepid suppers and tales of past glories. That is until an opportunity to make a daring escape presents itself...

Copyright & Licensing Information. This amateur production of “Heroes” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd.
on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

"I am not what I am”

On a hot, isolated Mediterranean island three outsiders – a black leader in a white state, an unworldly woman in a war zone, and a vengeful malcontent holding a grudge – plunge into tragedy.

GUIDANCE | Othello explores adult themes and language and depictions of violence.

Coward’s comic masterpiece explores the pain and passion of love, as Elyot and Amanda try to rekindle their broken marriage, in one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written.

It’s 1955 and The All-Female Pallas Players, a touring troupe, present their retelling of a whisky-filled shipwreck on a remote Scottish island, where the ‘golden dram’ supply has dried up due to the war.

"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"

Charged with responsibility to eliminate all wrongdoing within his hotel, Duke Vincentio entrusts his deputy, Angelo, with full authority. Nevertheless, Duke Vincentio decides to return in secret and to observe how Angelo wields his newly found power.

A crashing scandal of lies, crime and greed.

Based on true events, Lucy Prebble combines classical tragedy with sharp comedy to reveal the lies, crime and greed in this powerful political satire.

"Beware the Ides of March…"

A city on the brink… a murderous regime change.. a descent into civil war. This production promises an exciting contemporary interpretation of the play, staged in the round, in our annual open air production.

“Now my good Angel, whom God appoints
To be my Guardian, hover over the swords' points."

A nation divided, war on the horizon, a new king with everything to prove…

Macbeth meets Hamlet meets Granny Weatherwax!