The play is set in 1943 in the living room of the Vicarage of Merton-cum-Middlewick. Penelope Toop is a former actress and now the wife of the local vicar. Miss Skillon, a churchgoer of the parish, arrives to gossip with the vicar and to complain about the latest ‘outrages’ that Penelope has caused. Rumours fly and complications multiply for the vicar’s wife. Add in Ida the Cockney maid, an old friend of Penelope’s, Lance-Corporal Clive Winton, an escaping German prisoner, the Bishop of Lax, people pretending to be who they are not, knockabouts, drunks, and a very well-trained dog and a frantic farce is assured.

This play explores the nature of a man who loses his balance when devotion to family and country clash. When World War 1 breaks out Rudyard Kipling’s son, Jack, is determined to fight but the Army and Navy both reject him because of his extremely poor eyesight. Undaunted, Kipling uses his influence to land Jack a commission; Jack goes to war and is reported missing. The play is a powerful and moving account of Kipling’s anguish and guilt and their effect on his family

Dr. David Mortimore, a married neurologist with racked nerves, is warming up for a career-making lecture when in bursts Jane Tate (once Nurse Tate) with the reasons for her hasty departure 18 years and 9 months ago. Forthwith, one character after another is bounding through doors that swing or slam in the doctors’ lounge at St. Andrew’s Hospital in London, and some are even crawling along the snowy ledge outside.

This clever well-written thriller takes us back in time to the 1950s and hones in on the world of Janet Preston, a successful writer of romantic novels who resides in a large cottage on the haunting Yorkshire Moors. A knock at the door is just the start of her problems

Based on the true story of the Krogers, convicted in 1961 of spying for the Russians, this play is a fictional account of the quiet, totally unsuspecting Jackson family who live opposite the Krogers and consider them their closest friends. When an MI5 official arrives to use the Jacksons’ house as a surveillance post their decent, happy life is shattered as they are plunged into a sordid, alien world of deceit and intrigue...

A wonderful play that may well bring a tear to the eye as it examines the plight of three women who are left behind when Stephen Sullivan suddenly dies. His wife, Clara, always suspected that Stephen had a hidden life. His daughter, Isobel, is determined to use every opportunity to move up the social ladder and Anna, Stephen’s favourite daughter, is now offered a second chance at happiness.

This is arguably Miller’s strongest piece. Set in August 1947 Joe Keller is a man who loves his family above all else and has sacrificed everything, including his honour, in his struggle to make the family prosperous. Now sixty-one, he has lost one son in the war, and is keen to see his remaining son, Chris, settled. Chris wishes to marry Ann, the former fiancée of his brother, Larry. Their mother, Kate, believes Larry still to be alive. It is this belief which has enabled her, for three and a half years, to support Joe by keeping a secret of her own. Superb drama with a crushing finale.

A highly entertaining jolly hockey sticks end of the pier musical play about the fun-filled fortunes of a touring concert party in the 1920s known as the Dinky-Doos. They are stranded in the English countryside when their manager absconds with the most recent box office revenue and the lady pianist. Fear not - help is at hand and a happy ending round the corner.

The foolish but wealthy Monsieur Jourdain has but one aim in life, to rise above his middle-class background so that he is accepted as an aristocratic gentleman. To this end he orders splendid new clothes and applies himself to learning the gentlemanly arts of fencing, dancing, music and philosophy. In doing so, he makes an utter fool of himself, despite the efforts of his sensible wife. Meanwhile, Dorante, a cash-strapped nobleman sponges on him, while flattering his snobbery by promising to introduce him to a wealthy, widowed Marchioness. Jourdain’s dreams of social-climbing mount higher as he aspires to his daughter, Lucille, marrying a nobleman instead of Cléonte, whom she loves. Cléonte and his valet Covielle trick Jourdain into believing that Lucille is being courted by foreign royalty and that he himself is to be ennobled at a special ceremony. It is this ridiculous ceremony which bring the play to its hilarious climax.