2011 Caxton Theatre

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Woman in Mind

Saturday 3rd March 2012 to Saturday 10th March 2012

Written by Alan Ayckbourn - Directed by Debra West
 
  Main House

Be my Baby

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Saturday 21st April 2012 to Saturday 28th April 2012

  Written by Amanda Whittington
  Directed by Pam Reynolds
 
  Main House

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Saturday 26th May 2012 to Saturday 2nd June 2012

  Written by John Godber
  Directed by Amanda Hodges
 
  Main House

Elsie & Norm's Macbeth

macbeth

Thursday 21st June 2012 to Saturday 23rd June 2012

  Written by
  Directed by John Solley
 
  Novartis Suite

Not Now Darling

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Saturday 14th July 2012 to Saturday 21st July 2012

  Directed by Derek Hodges
 
  Main House

Calendar Girls

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Saturday 1st September 2012 to Saturday 8th September 2012

  Directed by Rob Till
 
  Main House

Murder by the Book

Saturday 13th October 2012 to Saturday 20th October 2012

  Directed by John Solley
 
  Main House

To be confirmed

Saturday 1st December 2012 to Saturday 8th December 2012

  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.

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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