The Midweek Drama

Written By Ian Winterton
Directed By Celia De Wolff

Starring:
Julie Hesmondhalgh as WENDY
Robert Glenister as OLIVER
Marlon Solomon as SIMON
Oliver Devoti as DAVID
David Fleeshman as ALAN

With
James Steventon as Young Simon / Shop Clerk / Doctor
Lauren Sturgess as ECT Doctor / Barmaid
Tom Sturgess  as Young David 
Elliot Winterton as Toddler David  


Music: I Giorni By Ludovico Einaudi 
All Rights Reserved to Warner Chappell Music 
In association with Arts Council England

Written by Declan Donohue. 

The story continues following sound engineer and wayward musician Damien who, along with his bouncer friend Greg, are trying to prop up a failing rock pub, Ragnorock. Between arguments on musical style, Damien’s hidden talents and a doomed love triangle, the band face much worse than just the decaying pubs closure.

Starring:
Paul Worrall as Damien
Marcus Christopherson as Greg
Lauren Sturgess as Carly 
and Qas Hamid as Terry

Written by Declan Donohue. 

The story continues following sound engineer and wayward musician Damien who, along with his bouncer friend Greg, are trying to prop up a failing rock pub, Ragnorock. Between arguments on musical style, Damien’s hidden talents and a doomed love triangle, the band face much worse than just the decaying pubs closure.

Starring:
Paul Worrall as Damien
Marcus Christopherson as Greg
Lauren Sturgess as Carly 
and Qas Hamid as Terry

Written by Declan Donohue. 

The story continues following sound engineer and wayward musician Damien who, along with his bouncer friend Greg, are trying to prop up a failing rock pub, Ragnorock. Between arguments on musical style, Damien’s hidden talents and a doomed love triangle, the band face much worse than just the decaying pubs closure.

Starring:
Paul Worrall as Damien
Marcus Christopherson as Greg
Lauren Sturgess as Carly 
and Qas Hamid as Terry

Written by Declan Donohue.

Damien is a sound engineer and wayward musician who, along with his bouncer friend Greg, are trying to prop up a failing rock pub, Ragnorock. 

Turning a disaster into opportunity, the pair form an ad hoc band and put on a night at Ragnorock with pint-pulling Carly on bass. 

Between arguments on musical style, Damien’s hidden talents and a doomed love triangle, the band face much worse than just the decaying pubs closure.

Starring:
Paul Worrall as Damien
Marcus Christopherson as Greg
Lauren Sturgess as Carly 
and Qas Hamid as Terry

Written by Neil Arnott 

This drama is a poignant examination of how Alzheimer's disease strips its victims of almost everything and makes life for those affected by it almost unbearable. Jim and Rose are an ordinary couple looking forward to their old age together when dementia strikes. We see how Rose, Jim's loving wife, is affected and how she handles her loss with stoicism and even a degree of positivity, finding ways to cope and ways to remain cheerful by remembering the good times they had shared. 

Starring: 
Geoff Baron as Jim
and Anne Baron as Rose

Directed by Lauren Sturgess

Written by Neil Arnott

The Old Green Vegetables is a comedy featuring two long time drinking buddies Jack and Norman. They meet three or four times a week at their local, the Badger's Crook, somewhere in London, and while away the hours sharing a pint or two and putting the world to rights. Jack is an upright citizen, retired (ex-military) and fastidious about his appearance. Norman on the other hand  is somewhat shambolic, writing a book that never seems to progress and pottering around markets. He is also a conspiracy theorist with a long-hidden secret that, when it comes to light, amazes Jack and sends them both on an adventure which will change their lives forever.

Starring:
Andrew C. Husband as Gerald
D.G Jones as Jack
David Swift as Norman 
and Katherine McDermott as Rosie

Directed by James Steventon and Lauren Sturgess 

Written by Luke Richards.

Two Beatles loving best friends find themselves taken on the adventure of a lifetime as they are transported back to 1968. Will they save the Beatles? 

Starring: 
Jack D'Arcy as Barry
Michael Baines as Will
Lew Freeburn as Stuart Best 
Liam Rabbette as John Lennon
Houmi Miura as Yoko Ono

Directed by James Steventon and Lauren Sturgess 

By Beverley Green.

Marjorie Pardoe runs an over-50s self-help group, or so she thinks. The help she gives is a matter of opinion, but the only opinion that matter to Marjorie is her own.

 

Fifty and Nifty meet weekly above the local pub, members come and go but Marjorie remains firm in her beliefs and teachings. Life does not begin at 50, it ends and it’s Marjorie’s mission to make everyone is aware of how to behave when it does. Her comments to members are blunt but her tongue is as sharp as a razor. She takes no prisoners in this hilarious play and if you didn’t know how to act when you came in you certainly will by the time you leave. 

Starring:

Beverley Green as Marjorie

Wendy Patterson as Janet

Pat Brocklehurst as Jean

Paul Wilson as Barry

Fiona Egan as Rhona 

Teresa Powell as Zara 

Michelle Parker as Doreen 

Andrew C. Husband as Edward 

and Brigid Hemingway as Maureen 

Directed by James Steventon and Lauren Sturgess

Written by Anna Girolami

Two terrified mothers clash in A&E one night - Heather appears to have the upper hand but it's Jax who shows real character. Heather eventually learns from Jax that she will have to face reality if she's going to help her daughter through the crisis threatening her sanity.

Starring:

Fiona Egan as Heather

Ali Donohue as Jax 

and Emily Heyworth as Kris 

Directed by James Steventon and Lauren Sturgess