2018-2019 SEASON

Betrayal
Lysistrata - The Sex Strike
No Exit (Huis Clos)
The Real Inspector Hound
​The Importance of Being Earnest
​A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lysistrata; The sex strike

After Aristophanes, by Germaine Greer and Phil Wilmott
​Unitarian Meeting House, Churchgate, Bury St Edmunds
8, 9 and 10 November 2018
Director - Tim Lodge
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​​Athens is in the grip of a futile, destructive war with Sparta and its men are fighting abroad, taken away from their wives and families for long periods at a time.  The women of Athens have had enough.  At dawn, in a men's bathhouse, leading society woman Lysistrata gathers an assembly of Athenian and Spartan women to discuss negotiating a peace treaty.  Their tactics are simple: they will refuse their men sex until peace is declared.

​Read an extract from the script here...
​Cast list and production notes here...

No Exit (Huis clos)

By John Paul Sartre
​Unitarian Meeting House, Churchgate, Bury St Edmunds
7, 8, 9 March 2019
Director - Gwen Owen
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​​No Exit (French: Huis Clos), was written in 1944 by the famous existentialist philosopher. The original title is the French equivalent of the legal term in camera, referring to a private discussion behind closed doors.  The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked together for all eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous quotation "L'enfer, c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people".  A powerful and thought-provoking piece of theatre.