Take a look at some of our previous plays
It’s 1940 in the sleepy Sussex village of Jevington. George, a retired mechanic, cheerfully tends his vegetables (for the war effort) when his wife, Lil, comes out with a cup of tea, a piece of delicious upside-down cake, and… a letter from The War Office. “What’s this?” he says. “What’s this?”. Above in a cotton […]
he tour began on Thursday 13th June in the tiny village of Dial Post in West Sussex and toured until August 11th. The Story Catalina, the daughter of the great astronomer Il Dottore Pazzo, is madly, desperately, in love with the delicious Federico, the son inconveniently of Il Magnifico Buco del Culo, a Florentine banker […]
Our first indoor play for an adult audience is a comedy in our contemporary commedia dell’arte style, using material we have garnered with the help of The V&A, but more tender, gentler and ‘smaller’ than our summer shows, with three actors and five half-human-size puppets, and more suited to intimate studio settings. The play first […]
Our 2012 summer play, “Who Saw Marjory Daw?” was a “comic mystery” set in 1968 London with lots of new songs and takes forward the characters of Gerald and Agnes Church from “Gentle Harry’s Farm” as he gets involved in politics and she becomes a rookie reporter. Of course, it had all the 60’s themes […]
Tucked under the Downs in the breathless July of 1957, our 2011 production buzzed with hilarity, sigh with tenderness and chirrup with gentle satire. Another brand new play and clutch of songs. Agnes Church and her very special friend and neighbour, Minnie Heartfelt, just love their boarding school, The Gables School for Jolly Nice Girls! […]
It’s 1955 and life carries on just as it always has in Dreamville Indiana. The Eldridge Costello giant automobile assembly lines throb on like a choir of basses from Hell, while the kids hang out with their cars on the dusty ball park. With Halloween fast approaching, the lady members of the Dreamville Grand Teepee […]
Our 2009 play was a tender tale set in the sultry Tuscan landscape of La Valle delle Roses of teenage love thwarted by stupid young male chauvinism and then rediscovered in maturity (well, relative maturity! How long does it take men to grow up?), of intrigue and attempted murder, of seduction and lycanthropy under a […]
Bruno, a very fine, but old, donkey can’t pull Mother Weber’s cart anymore, so Farmer Weber, her husband, is going to boil him in a big pot to make him into glue, because his favourite rocking chair keeps falling apart. Bruno, who happens to be a fine double bass player, is a bit miffed about […]
It’s 1922 and Noah Babel is busy carving the last few animals for his carousel which he has been commissioned to build for Darke & Sanger’s Traveling Fair. His little workshop in Paradise Street, Bermondsey, is wedged between the towering walls of Sir Sidney Greenleaf’s leather works – and Sir Sidney wants him out so […]
When The San Francisco Mime Troupe began in 1959 they tried to find ‘stereotypical characters’ which would be effective in their particular social context and decided that the model offered by the commedia dell’arte could not be bettered. We would prefer to call them archetypes rather than stereotypes, but otherwise basically agree. There is a […]
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