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Theatre Club Summer 2025
Posted on: 22nd April, 2025
Enjoy theatre? We’re inviting you to be part of our new Theatre Club – come alone or bring a friend and enjoy shows hand-picked by our director.
Unpacking each part of a show is so interesting, especially with others who may offer different insights and opinions! Come along to a Theatre Club performance and feel free to enjoy theatre on your own, or with a friend, as part of our Theatre Club.
What is Theatre Club?
Think ‘book club’ but for theatre: Get yourself a refreshment in our Greene Room Bar and find our designated Theatre Club table and meet fellow club members pre-performance. Literature and background information will be available for you to read and take away with you for a deeper dive into the show’s background, actors, playwright and more. Re-join the table in the interval if you’d like to and then post-show, you are welcome to head over to our local pub, The Dog and Partridge (300m) to discuss the show with your fellow club members at a reserved table for Theatre Club members.
Theatre Club performances this Spring:
Appraisal
AppraisalPresented by Smoke Screen Productions
Thursday 8 May – get tickets from £12 here.
An annual work review that goes horribly wrong.
Head of Department Nicky wants to get on with her job, but her boss Jo has other ideas. He has a plan and thinks she is going to like it…
A two-hander dark comedy played out in real time, Appraisal is a masterclass in subtext, manipulation, and unexpected humour. What seems like an ordinary work performance review quickly turns into a comical yet chilling power struggle. Nicky is just trying to get through the meeting, but her boss, Jo, has something far more sinister—and ridiculous—up his sleeve. The situation spirals into an absurdly tense showdown that’s as funny as it is unnerving…
5 Mistakes That Changed History
Presented by Paul Coulter
Fri 13 June – get tickets from £12 here.
We all make mistakes, but rarely do they change the course of history. 5 Mistakes That Changed History is a hilarious historical storytelling show performed by historian and comedian, Paul Coulter, about five people and how their mistakes (big and small!) changed the world.
Blending history, storytelling and comedy the show has been a smash-hit, sell-out success on the comedy festival circuit, selling out both Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Adelaide Fringe Festival twice in 2023 and 2024.
Suitable for history lovers 9 to 90+, the show was named by British Comedy Guide as one of the ‘Best Reviewed Edinburgh Fringe Shows 2024’ and was chosen as one of the ‘Picks of the Fringe’.
A Shoddy Detective and The Art Of Deception
A Shoddy Detective and The Art Of DeceptionPresented by The Production Garden
25-26 June – get tickets here.
A laugh-out-loud slapstick whodunnit featuring four actors, a dozen characters and a whole load of chaos.
When a priceless painting goes missing from a private auction, Detective Stuart Pidcock is called upon to uncover the mystery. However, when he cannot solve it himself, he is forced to enlist the help of an old nemesis. Together, the pair must interrogate the many characterful suspects that reside at the manor, in order to catch the conniving culprit and solve the crime of the century!