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Wait Until Dark

Wait Until Dark was first performed on Broadway in 1966. A film version was released in 1967, and the play was published in the same year. Susy Hendrix is a blind Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three con-men searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband Sam unwittingly transported from Canada as a favour to a […]

Importance of Being Earnest

Pygmalion

Double Acts

Double Acts was a series of radio comedies produced for BBC Radio 4. It is an anthology series of two-handers. Each episode features only two main speaking parts and is a self-contained play, …although some of them are loosely connected. John Finnemore told me that he had unwittingly connected some of the episodes from his […]

Dick Whittington

Following the success of our first pantomime in several years, we are thrilled to welcome back the team this year to present their version of Dick Whittington! Dick Whittington is a tale known and loved by children everywhere, and follows one young man’s attempt to make a better life for himself. Along the way he […]

I Don’t Like Mondays – 2022

FRESH FROM THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL Big Spirit present an all new version of their 2018 production I Don’t Like Mondays Telling the story of what happens on a school campus when a shooter comes along. Written in a verbatim style, the presentation has a documentary feel that makes it absolutely contemporary. Strong writing, strong acting […]

Yeomen of the Guard

with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Set in the Tower of London. Colonel Fairfax, a gentleman, soldier and scientist is wrongly accused of sorcery, imprisoned in the Tower and sentenced to be beheaded within the hour. To avoid leaving his estate to his accuser he secretly marries strolling gypsy, Elsie […]

Ferryman

It’s Northern Ireland in 1981, The Troubles are in full swing. The Carney family is preparing for the yearly harvest as they always do, following a hard day’s work with a night of celebration. This year, though, something is different. Winner of Best New Play in every major awards ceremony in London and New York […]

Romeo & Juliet

In Big Spirit’s hands we have a fantastic ‘street’ version that will re-invent the story for anyone used to doublet and hose. It really works – the beat of the street and Shakespeare’s language belong together!