2019 SUMMER Season

The Importance of Being Earnest
​A Midsummer Night's Dream
​Can't Pay?  Won't Pay!
The Lady from the Sea

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!'

2019-2020 Season
More productions to be announced soon!

cAN'T pAY?  won't pAY!

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

Employing the comedic methods of the ancient commedia dell'arte, Fo's Can't Pay Won't Pay takes on the issue of economic crisis and job redundancies. A theme relevant both in the 1970s and today. Pushed to the limit by the situation Margherita leads a revolt at the local supermarket through which looting guts the building. Margherita, and her friend Antonia, then try desperately to hide their 'liberated' goods before their husbands and the police catch up with them in a wild farce that may give you ideas about alternative diets on a low budget. Anyone for bird seed? 

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.