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Arthur dies from a heart attack, the very moment he finds out that he has won a substantial amount of money. Although he is dead, he is a little surprised that he is still in his old house able to see and hear what is going on. His allocated Guide Angel, Simon, explains that he is being assessed to determine which way he goes next. Up or Down!!!
Arthur does not mind the assessment delay. He is curious to find out what is going on in his old house after his funeral. Obviously he is not very pleased with what his family are saying and planning to do next but, Spirits cannot voice their objections. Or can they? This play has a strong cast of Caxton favourites including Derek Hodges, as Arthur, Ian Hammond, as Simon, with Amanda Hodges, Christine Cornthwaite, Mike Wilson, Geraldine Godwin and Rhiannon Wright.
Written by Pat Wollaston - Directed by Photis Hardalias
Novartis Suite (Bar)
2011 Caxton Theatre
Written by Alan Ayckbourn - Directed by Debra West
Main House
Written by Amanda Whittington
Directed by Pam Reynolds
Main House
Written by John Godber
Directed by Amanda Hodges
Main House
Written by
Directed by John Solley
Novartis Suite
Directed by Derek Hodges
Main House
Directed by Rob Till
Main House
Directed by John Solley
Main House
Directed by Matthew Sargent
Main House
The play deals with the gradual mental collapse of Susan, precipitated by being knocked unconscious by a garden rake! Starved of affectionate companionship and understanding love by an appallingly boring husband and priggish son, who’s ashamed of her, Susan conjures up an ideal family, - husband, daughter and brother - who come to her in her idyllic (but imagined) garden. But gradually she loses control over this dream and finally breaks down in a nightmarish fantasy involving her real and imaginary families.
Based on true life stories, Be My Baby follows the story of Mary Adams, aged 19, and 7 months pregnant, wanting only to keep her baby - the play sets out to discover why she can't.
Her mother sends her to a Mother and Baby home. We follow the stories of Mary and the girls she befriends. The girls’ youthful effervescence keeps breaking through as they sing along to the hits of the day. The three minute pop dramas capture the passionate innocence of the play's characters.
This play is poignant, uplifting, moving and funny and will appeal to anyone who enjoys a heartfelt human story with humour and music.
April in Paris has redundant builder Al and fed up Bet trapped in a ‘couldn’t care less’ marriage. He spends his days in his garden shed while she enters magazine competitions. They are ordinary Yorkshire folk who live a quiet life and this is their first experience abroad. Come with them as they try to fathom their way through the French cuisine, the Metro and the French phrase book. The winning of a weekend in Paris might hint at rekindling romance but the reality is hardly that. It is more of a reawakening, a chance to look at themselves, with just a hint that things might get better. Al and Bet are two fabulous characters and the experiences they share throughout are hilarious, especially the "Cafe Trocadero" scene.
Elsie and Norm, fed up with playing Trivial Pursuits and watching Countdown, have decided to have a bash at a bit of culture by staging a production of Macbeth in their living room. After a spot of judicious re-writing Elsie and Norm set out to act 'one of the greatest pieces of literature what has ever been wrote in the English language!' Playing all the characters between them, the hilarious results are guaranteed to set Shakespeare spinning in his grave!
A mad cap British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley, and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster dirt cheap for his wife, because the wife is Gilbert's mistress and he wants to "Close the deal." However, instead of doing his own dirty work, he gets his reluctant partner, Arnold Crouch, to do it for him. Things go awry when the mobster plans to buy it for his OWN mistress and soon the whole plan goes out the window along with women's clothing and a few other things. Mistaken identities, scantily clad women kept hidden in closets, mobsters, suspicious wives, and misguided shoppers all add to this classic farce.
In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women's Institute, where he said that "the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire", and "the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious", her best friend Chris Harper decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives
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