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Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner

Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner Directed by Violet Morris In The Richard Whitmore Studio Auditions: Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th March 2022 at 7:45pm Performances: Tuesday 14th to Saturday 18th June 2022. Rehearsal Nights: (TBC) THE PLAY Eigengrau/ [ay-gen-gr-ow]/ noun. Intrinsic light; the colour seen by the eye in perfect darkness. Feminist activist Cassie is engaged […]

Shakespeare in Love by Lee Hall

Shakespeare in Love by Lee Hall Directed by Nicki Pope Movement by Katie Rallison Rehearsals will be on Tues and Thurs, with some Sunday mornings up to the opening. Tec will be on the 13th May with Dress on 15th May. Performance Dates – 16th -21st May Based on the Academy Award-winning movie, this enchanting, […]

Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle, and Dick – by Terry Johnson

About the Play In 1964 a fifty-one-year-old man meets a twenty-seven-year-old woman at work. She’s young, buxom, blonde, pretty. And just about to get married… Over the years, as they work together, the two grow closer; they become friends. He becomes obsessed with her. She promises him one night of lust in Brighton. Just one […]

The Maids by Jean Genet

THE PLAY “Dazzling, dangerous and captivatingly queasy” The Guardian Based very loosely on a notorious 1930s murder case, The Maids is a shocking play with boldlydrawn characters, unreliable narrators and a lot to say about class and gender politics. Claire and Solange are two maids, trapped in a menial life of service to a Mistress […]

The Snow Queen

Our Christmas show is a new version of Hans Christian Anderson’s wonderful story – The Snow Queen. Gerda’s friend Kai disappears one day after the Snow Queen meets him. She puts a splinter of ice into his heart so that he cannot remember his home or anyone he knows. Gerda goes to find her friend […]

THE WASP by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

Audition dates: Tuesday 24th and Thursday 26th August 2021 Performance dates: Tuesday 9th November to Saturday 13th November 2021 Rehearsal nights: Tuesdays and Thursdays The Wasp by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, is a densely coiled two-hander. Heather and Carla haven’t seen each other since school. Their lives have taken very different paths – Carla […]

SHIRLEY VALENTINE by Willy Russell

Feeling trapped in a world of domesticity, Shirley, a housewife from Liverpool, needs a change in her life before she has another conversation with the walls. When her friend Jane invites her on a trip to a Greek island, Shirley jumps at the chance. While relaxing on holiday, she rediscovers the woman she used to […]

The Retreat by Sam Bain

The Retreat is a fast moving comical play which explores a modern day search for enlightenment and the process of giving up a former life. The main action focusses on the turbulent relationship between Luke and his brother Tony. Luke has decided to give up his lucrative job and expensive London flat in search of […]

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare

PLEASE NOTE : These auditions are being held online – please DO NOT come to the theatre. Zoom details below. Seventy years ago (in 1951) the Dell Theatre was opened by the then Hitchin Urban District Council (now NHDC) as part of the Festival of Britain celebrations. The Council built the theatre for what they […]

Bull by Mike Bartlett

Auditions will be by appointment ONLY – please do not turn up to the theatre without an appointment. Directed by Maisie Brooker This is a NT award winning, razor-sharp play about the fine line between office politics and playground bullying, Bull offers ringside seats as three employees fight to keep their jobs. The play is […]