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Big Spirit – 40th Year Showcase

As Big Spirit Youth Theatre celebrate their 40th Anniversary, the group are putting together a showcase from their favourite shows from across the years and a selection from some plays they just love, but haven’t yet performed. A medley of drama, comedy and movement presented in a way only Big Spirit can.

Me & My Girl

When the new Earl of Hareford is revealed to be Bill Snibson, a common cockney from Lambeth, the aristocratic family battle to turn him into a gentleman and separate him from his equally unsuitable girlfriend. Featuring well known songs including The Lambeth Walk and The Sun has got his Hat On, this popular musical comedy […]

Junior Showcase 2024

Come and watch the Bancroft Juniors end of year Showcase. An evening of comedy and drama presented by our talented 8-13 year olds. Covering everything from football to mobile phones, school-life to love lives. A fun and delightful evening for all ages.

Krapp’s Last Tape

In Beckett’s critically acclaimed play, an aging man, who lives a lonely and shabby existence in a darkened room, listens to a taped recording of himself as a young man. A tour-de-force for one man, is the most affectionate portrait of a character that Beckett has ever done: an aging man who lives a lonely […]

Sleeping Beauty

This years pantomime Sleeping Beauty is the classic fairy tale of good overcoming the evil plans of the wicked witch Ghasthag. Will the Princess Beauty fall asleep for one hundred years?Will the dashing Prince save her?Will Nurse Moneypenny finally get her man? A spectacular show with a sprinkling of magic, a lot of audience participation, […]

Sleeping Beauty – Adults Only

This years pantomime Sleeping Beauty is being given a saucy adult make-over…for ONE NIGHT ONLY! Following the success of our adult-only version of Dick Whittington – the team will be casting their naughty, mischievous spell onto Sleeping Beauty! Will the Princess Beauty fall asleep for one hundred years?Will the dashing Prince save her?Will Nurse Moneypenny […]

Present Laughter

At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line in harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanours […]

Laramie Project

By Moises Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theater Project Big Spirit Youth Theatre presents The Laramie Project, a deeply complex portrait of a community’s response to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming. In a series of poignant reflections, the residents of Laramie react to the hate […]

Midsummer Nights Dream

The Bancroft Juniors present William Shakespeare magical classic; A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Following on from the successful rendition of Romeo & Juliet earlier this year, the wonderful Juniors continue their Shakespearean theme with a tale of fairies, love and comedy in one of Shakespeare’s timeless classics.

One Life (12)

ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker played by Johnny Flynn, who, along with Trevor Chadwick (played by Alex Sharp) and Doreen Warinner (played by Romola Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia, rescued 669 children from the Nazis in the months leading up to […]