Christmas Ghosts & Other Stories
Tuesday 3rd December 2024, 7:30pm
Wednesday 4th December 2024, 7:30pm
Thursday 5th December 2024, 7:30pm
Harry’s Bar returns with a spooky theme
Black & White productions
Written by Suzanne Hawkes
Tag: drama
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.
Read More Pantaloons – A Christmas CarolWriting 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
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!
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!
Giles Shenton – MY DOG’S GOT NO NOSE
Saturday 25th November 7:30pm
My Dog’s Got No Nose
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!
THOMAS WOLSEY – THE RISE & FALL
Wed 18 October 7:30pm
Also OTHER DATES AND VENUES
Thomas Wolsey – born in Ipswich from humble beginnings – rose to become Henry VIII’s right hand man and the most powerful force in England. But swept up in the storm of Reformation his career followed a dramatic course to a bitter end.
This play looks at his life through the eyes of George Cavendish of Glemsford, his servant and biographer during his glorious rise and his subsequent battle to survive the turbulence of King Henry’s determination to turn the world upside down in his pursuit of love and an heir.
With live music.
PART of the IPSWICH WOLSEY 550 PROJECT
With funding from Heritage Lottery
The Breath of Life
Friday 8th September 7:30pm
When Madeleine is confronted by Frances, the wife of the man with whom she had a torrid, adulterous affair over 40 years, the air is fraught with tension and unresolved emotions. Over the course of 36 hours the two women reflect on their lives and perceived relationship with the man they both loved.
Read More The Breath of LifeLUKE WRIGHT – The Remains of Logan Dankworth
Friday 14th July 2023 7:30pm
LUKE WRIGHT – performance poet extraordinaire brings his touring show to Two Sisters
“I believed that Fukayama line: the end of history. But History didn’t end, did it?”
Logan Dankworth, columnist and Twitter warrior, grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s. Now, as the EU Referendum looms he is determined to be in the fray of the biggest political battle for years. Meanwhile, Logan’s wife Megan wants to leave London to better raise their daughter. As tensions rise at home and across the nation, something is set to be lost forever.
The evening’s entertainment also includes an opening set of Luke’s poems in the first half.
Read More LUKE WRIGHT – The Remains of Logan DankworthKing Lear
Thursday 11 May 2023, 7:30pm
Oddbodies present an adapted version of KING LEAR
An inventive, irreverent, and highly accessible solo adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays… Armed with only a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, the tragic trajectory of Lear’s demise is presented to you from the point of view of his long suffering and ever-loyal fool. The bastard Edmund, haughty Goneril, poor deluded Gloucester, oily Oswald, sweet Cordelia, mad Tom – all the characters from this sad and sorry tale are brought to glorious life before your very eyes. Blindness, betrayal, delusion, deceit, love, loyalty, lust and greed – it’s all here in this fast paced, funny, poignant and ultimately heartbreaking production.