Take a look at some of our previous plays
Love is a bunch a’ roses! Money’s the fing! The tyrannical father – It is London, 1924, and rich and powerful tycoon & former East End barrow boy, Sir Arthur Cattermole, is not happy. His son, Gerald, whom he has spent his hard earned brass on to go to Eton, is in love with […]
The other 1940s drama – Among the birds It all began in a sleepy village in Sussex – 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 […]
Our second foray into children’s theatre A great little story – Having known David & Ronda Armitage and greatly admired their work – David as an important contemporary painter & Ronda as a wonderful children’s writer – for many years, it made sense to dramatise one of their beautiful little stories – and they agreed. […]
The tour began on Thursday 13th June in the tiny village of Dial Post in West Sussex and toured until August 11th. The Story A wicked banker & a daughter’s thwarted love – Catalina, the daughter of the great astronomer Il Dottore Pazzo, is madly, desperately, in love with the delicious Federico, the son inconveniently […]
Commedia indoors. Would it work? – Our first indoor play for an adult audience was a comedy in our contemporary commedia dell’arte style, using material we 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 […]
An adventure into the ’60’s Drugs, free love & rock’n’roll – 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. […]
A play about ‘jolly nice gerls’ The blissful Sussex Downs – Tucked under the Downs in the breathless July of 1957, our 2011 production buzzed with hilarity, sighed with tenderness and chirruped with gentle satire. Another brand new play and clutch of songs. The ‘gerls’ & their expectations – Agnes Church and her very […]
This was also revised & toured again in 2019 as ‘Ikarus Inc’ You can fly to your dreams! The little town of Dreamville – 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 […]
A tender tale Amour Courtois (‘courtly love’) – One of the joys of mediaeval literature such as in Chaucer’s ‘Knight’s Tale’ is the theme of amour courtois or ‘courtly love’ in which a young man courts an apparently unattainable woman through his acts of bravery, suffering & chivalry. This may mean enduring the sharp thorns […]
Two experiments in children’s theatre Is The Rudes’ theatre for children? – The Rudes have twice in our history created plays for children, ‘The Musicians of Bremen’ (2008) & ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Cat’ (2013). Both went down really well but made no money! It is a harsh reality that you have to find your niche to […]
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