Theatre Group

Contact Chris Farleigh 8086 2882 to book your ticket

6 members had the privilege of seeing Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks at Salisbury Playhouse

If you haven’t read the book you should. This performance had all the passion, anger, drama, intensity, shock and horror and the beauty of the book, we all came out feeling almost shell-shocked, There wasn’t a weak performance among the 12-strong cast who gave us a stunning and emotional piece of theatre - a very memorable evening.

Hanger Farm Arts Centre ShooShoo Baby presents Off The Scale

Thursday 20^th March 7.30pm Special Offer Tickets through U3A £8.00

The effortlessly funny duo have toured the UK extensively and have earned themselves a reputation for excellent singing and musicianship.  Off the Scale includes witty new arrangements of well-known songs by an eclectic cast of composers such as Irving Berlin, John Denver, Verdi & Elvis Costello, alongside original music. "What sets ShooShooBaby apart is their musical wit and superb harmony... Tight, clever & totally enjoyable.

Mayflower Theatre  Hot Flush – The Naughtiest Musical in Town – starring Lesley Joseph Sunday 23^rd March 7.30pm

Book before midnight on Wed 13 March and pay just £15.00 per ticket!* That's a saving of £7.00 on each ticket! Simply quote FLASH1239 when booking.

Meet Myra, Sylvia, Helen and Jessica in this hilarious show.  Share in the friendships, the secrets, the tears, the laughs and ups and downs of four ordinary women – and one man – living extraordinary lives.   A successful barrister, specialising in divorce, Myra had always considered herself a together sort of person. That is, until she began to develop the symptoms of you know what... and her rat of a husband left her for a big blonde bimbo from his office.   Jessica’s husband has worked hard and made lots of money and they both enjoy the finer things in life. Her life seemed perfect until her mid-life crisis began but she’s coping with the help of her friends and the vicar. She just wishes that the vicar could explain why when God made man he didn’t try a little harder?    Sylvia has been married to Joe since she was twenty... and has been bored with him since she was twenty-one. She’s now decided that life is for living and she’s making up for lost time.   Helen, a widow, whose only daughter has left for university, is feeling a bit lonely. Helen tries to take one day at a time; it’s just that sometimes, several days attack her at once.

More fun than joining a gym and cheaper than botox, Hot Flush! might even leave you feeling 34½ again! So wipe away the credit crunch blues and grab your girlfriends together for an unmissable night at the theatre and bring your man along as well, you'll all love it.

Hanger Farm Arts Centre Totton Festival of Drama

Wednesday 24^th – 29^th March 7.00pm Tickets £7.50

Programme:

Wednesday Sense and Sensibleness - Bench Theatre Co, Bang Out of Order – Junior Oasis Youth Theatre

Thursday The Challenge – Bench Theatre, The 13^th Floor – Maskers Theatre

Friday Odd – Bishopstoke Players, Grotto – Bench Theatre, Pride at Southanger Farm – Soton University Players

Saturday The Zoo Story – Maskers Theatre, Pub Quiz of the Sexes – Soton University Players,

The Michael Collins Moment - Nuffield Youth Theatre

Nuffield Theatre Tonight at 8.30pm 9 one-act plays by Noel Coward

Saturday 10^th May 1pm, 4.30pm & 8.30pm Tickets £24. Performed as three trios in repertory.

Nuffield and English Touring Theatre present the first major revival in the UK of all nine one-act plays by Noël Coward.

Tonight at 8.30 is a collection of nine one-act plays by the inimitable Noël Coward, performed together for the first time in the UK, since Coward starred in them in 1936. From vaudeville to satire, from broad farce to intricate comedy of manners, from melodrama to romance, these plays span the full, glorious range of Coward’s writing.

You can peep through your fingers at the Red Peppers chaotic music-hall show, witness a bankrupt couple use all Ways and Means to scheme their way out of debt, and break your heart along with Laura in the famous Still Life, the original version of the film Brief Encounter.

This is a unique opportunity to see a stellar ensemble perform all nine of these plays. 

Make a day of it On the days featuring all three trios, Nuffield Kitchen invites you to a 1930s dinner party in between each show. Lunch will be served before the 1pm performance

Salberg - Salisbury Playhouse The Ballard of Martha Brown

Friday 16^th May 7.30pm Tickets £13

“I remember what a fine figure she showed against the sky as she hung in the misty rain and how the tight black silk gown set off her shape as she wheeled half round and back” – Thomas Hardy recalling Martha Brown’s public hanging 70 years after the event.

Expect the unexpected in Angel Exit’s latest original drama based on the life and times of Martha Brown; the last woman, in Dorset, to be publicly hanged.

A tale of jealousy and passion, an ordinary woman and her ordinary husband, a hatchet grabbed in haste, a murder, a wrongly accused horse, a black silk dress, the hangman from London and the mob at the hang-fair who gawp in glee.

Presented in the company’s rich visual style, blending storytelling and striking physicality, the show is spliced through with wicked humour and macabre songs.

Antony & Cleopatra The Globe Theatre London

Thursday June 5^th 2. pm Tickets £39.00, plus travel

Two lovers are blown apart by love and war

Cleopatra, the alluring and fascinatingly ambiguous Queen of Egypt, has bewitched the great Mark Antony, soldier, campaigner and now one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire. When Antony quarrels with his fellow leaders and throws in his lot with Cleopatra, his infatuation threatens to split the Empire in two.

Roman virtue and Eastern vice, transcendent love and realpolitik combine in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s greatest exploration of the conflicting claims of sex and power, all expressed in a tragic poetry of breathtaking beauty and magnificence.

Plaza Theatre, Romsey The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan

Thursday 17^th July 7.30pm

The play looks at both the terrifying experiences of the men at the front in the first world war and the women who were left behind to face social changes, deprivation and the lies of propaganda. While often comic vignettes portray the everyday life of a town denuded of men, the men face the terror that is the Battle of the Somme. This compassionate play portrays the devastating effects of war on a typical Lancashire mill town and the suffering of everyday people

Royal Albert Hall John Rutter Christmas Concert

Thursday 11^th December 3pm

Tickets £20 plus travel