Tag: drama

Chopped Liver & Unions

Chopped Liver & Unions

Thu 2nd October 2025

Blur Fire Theatre Company present
Chopped Liver & Unions
by J.J. Leppink
The East End of London has burned with the fires of rebellion for centuries. Most recently, from the Matchgirls of 1888 to the “Made in Dagenham” workers at Ford’s in Dagenham in 1968, its women have fought for change. Sara Wesker fought harder than most. Forty years after the Matchgirls and forty years before the Ford Workers, in 1928 Sara led a 12 week ground breaking strike in the garment industry. An ardent trade unionist and prominent Communist Party activist, Sara sang on the picket lines, galvanised a traditionally compliant workforce and in 1936 fought at the Battle of Cable Street. This is her story.

Sylvia Towell
Sylvia developed a love of singing while still at school and has been singing and performing for many years. She has appeared in most of the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, with her most recent role being Dick Deadeye in H.M.S. Pinafore.

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Luke Wright JOY

Luke Wright JOY

Thursday 8 May 2025, 7:30pm

Following the smash hit success of his Silver Jubilee show (“the best thing he’s done and that’s saying something.” ★★★★★ Telegraph) Luke Wright returns with a new set poems that get to grips with the idea of JOY. Is it possible, as a 42 year old to feel pure unbridled happiness, and what does it look like?

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A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 BY LUCAS HNATH

A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 BY LUCAS HNATH

Fri 11th April 2025 – Sat 12th April 2025

OLD SCHOOL THEATRE presents
A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2
BY LUCAS HNATH
At the end of Ibsen’s classic, ground breaking 1879 play, A Doll’s House Nora walks out on her marriage, home and young
children. Playwright Lucas Hnath builds on Ibsen’s seminal work by imagining what happens when Nora returns years later
with an urgent request. Old School Theatre Company presents Hnath’s rich, stand alone sequel, eloquently exploring
traditional gender roles and social class still inherent in today’s society. A Doll’s House, Part 2 received its UK premiere at the
Donmar Warehouse, London in 2022.

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Operation: RADAR

Operation: RADAR

Tue 1st April 2025 – 6th April 2025

Black & White Productions revisit how RDF (or RADAR as it came to be known) was developed at Orfordness & Bawdsey with a new play – OPERATION:RADAR

It’s a race against time as Boffins Robert Watson Watt and Skip Wilkins try to come up with solutions to the impossible problems of detecting aircraft and IFF (identifying friend or foe) before they succumb to the bleak conditions of Orfordness or Hitler unleashes the might of the Luftwaffe and wipes out the RAF before the flying boys have got their socks on!.But as they re-establish operations at Bawdsey Manor and Churchill piles on the pressure, will Air Marsall Dowding retain his sanity long enough to be any help? And even if they do find answers – who will operate the new Chain Home Stations now all the men are being called up?
With live music and a mixture of new songs and old favorites from the period this

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Pantaloons – A Christmas Carol

Pantaloons – A Christmas Carol

Saturday 30th November 2024 7:30pm

The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company present a brand-new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ fantastical festive fable.
It’s Christmas Eve and tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge is meaner than ever. He is shunning his only living relative, underpaying his clerk and refusing to acknowledge the plight of the poor… but will timely visits from the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future change his miserly ways before it’s too late?
Performed by a multi-talented cast in The Pantaloons’ own inimitable, hilarious and moving style this show features live music, audience interaction and absolutely no humbug!*

*There may be some humbug.

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Writing Crime in Akenfield

Writing Crime in Akenfield

Wed 9th – 13th October 2024 7:30pm
Wed 16th – 17th October 2024 7:30pm

In the early 1960’s excentric American writer Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train) came to live in Earl Soham to write a crime novel based in Suffolk
Living nearby was local writer Ronald Blythe about to embark on his definitive verbatim account of the changes in farming between the wars –
Akenfield
This play is the story of their strange and unlikely relationship 
With live music & new songs written especially for this production

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Giles Shenton – MY DOG’S GOT NO NOSE

Giles Shenton – MY DOG’S GOT NO NOSE

Friday 19 Jul 2024, 7:30pm

A one-man play by Ron Aldridge
Produced by GSP
Starring Giles Shenton Directed by Simon Downing

Giles Shenton (Old Herbaceous, Three Men in a Boat) returns with a “thought provoking” and “cleverly constructed, wonderful piece of theatre” about a man preparing to fulfil his lifelong ambition to be a stand-up comedian, “…puts one in mind of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads”
You join the man as he prepares backstage for his first ever stand-up comedy gig. Something he has waited over 30 years for. Find out how he got to this point in his life……but be warned……the man and the performance are not quite what they seem!

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Pat & Ron – Writers in Crime

Pat & Ron – Writers in Crime

Or Patricia Highsmith met Ronald Blyth. An original play by Suzanne Hawkes

Monday 25th March – Wednesday 27th March 7:30pm

Tuesday 2nd April – Thursday 4th April 7:30pm

In 1964 Patricia Highsmith – famous writer of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley – moves to England and buys a cottage in Earl Soham intending to base her next novel in Suffolk. 
There she meets Ronald Blythe – who counts among his friends Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears  – and is working on his new novel Akenfield
Two writers – two imaginations – anything could happen!

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