2019 SEASON

No Exit (Huis Clos)
The Real Inspector Hound
​The Importance of Being Earnest
​A Midsummer Night's Dream
​Can't Pay?  Won't Pay!
The Lady from the Sea

tHE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND

By Tom Stoppard
​Unitarian Meeting House, Churchgate, Bury St Edmunds
25, 26 & 27 April 2019
Director - Adam Thurkettle

Farcical and satirical drama parodying the Agatha Christie ‘parlour mystery’ while examining themes of fate, free will and the ‘play within a play’.  The mystery is set in Muldoon Manor, a lavish country pile surrounded by ‘desolate marshes’ and ‘treacherous swamps’…  Also located near a cliff.  Need we say more? 

the importance of being earnest

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By Oscar Wilde
​Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
5 - 8 June 2019
Director - Chris Lines
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‘To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.’
 
Wilde’s famous comedy of wit and manners is the story of a lost child and of men with fake friends they use as excuses to get out of dull engagements.  Add two young ladies looking for love, and a mother, the formidable Lady Bracknell, who wants only the best for her daughter.  Also a governess with a secret and you have the most timeless of comedies.  Oh, and there’s that handbag…
Will Cecily and Gwendolen obtain the men of their dreams or will a mother, a name, or a governess’s revelations put paid to their hopes of happiness?
 
‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple’.

A midsummer night's dream

By William Shakespeare
​Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds
9 - 13 July 2019
Director - Tim Lodge

​Shakespeare’s greatest comedy of mortals, fairies and ‘rude mechanicals’.  A hugely entertaining drama performed, of course, in the ‘original’ late C16th style with Elizabethan music and dance.  Best enjoyed with family, friends and a glass of something in the sunshine…
 
Our 8th outdoor Shakespeare production, now a regular and much loved feature of the West Suffolk activities calendar.  Bring a picnic and enjoy classic Shakespeare in beautiful surroundings.

'Lord, what fools these morals be!'

cAN'T pAY?  won't pAY!

By Dario Fo
​Unitarian Meeting House, Churchgate, Bury St Edmunds
26, 27 & 28 September 2019
Director - Chris Lines

THE LADY FROM THE SEA

By Henrik Ibsen
​Unitarian Meeting House, Churchgate, Bury St Edmunds
7, 8, 9 November 2019
Director - Tim Lodge

Mercurial, distracted and restless, Ellida feels desperately  trapped in her marriage.  She yearns for the sea and a broader horizon, for the furthest reaches of freedom, for an experience that is both liberating and dangerously self-destructive.  When a former lover returns from years of absence she is forced to decide between freedom and a new life she could make for herself.