Building Blocks
Season: 9 Feb to 5 Mar 2022
Written by: Bob Larbey
By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical On Behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company.
Directed by: Rob & Leah White
Jim and Mary Baxter are in the middle of one of life’s major traumas. They are building an extension on to their house. A great deal of their time is consumed in negotiations with the builder, the charming but evasive David. By turns hilarious and touching, this well-observed comedy will bring smiles and groans of recognition to all those who have ever been involved in this situation -- and a few rueful warnings to those who have not!
Naturally, everything goes to plan, - but does it?
Bob Larbey wrote the television comedies A Fine Romance and As Time Goes By and co-wrote ‘The Good Life’ amongst others. Building Blocks was written from the heart about family traumas during a domestic building extension.
Bob Larbey nails the torture of renovating.
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Moonlight and Magnolias
Season: 8 June to 5 July 2022
Written by: Ron Hutchinson
By arrangement with ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL on behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company.
Directed by: Joy Sweeney
Legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick has a problem. Five weeks into shooting Gone with the Wind he has fired a clueless director and the script needs to be completely rewritten in 5 days or the production will shut down! The writer he wants has never read the novel. The replacement director has to be called away from the set of The Wizard of Oz.
The three men, supported by Selznick’s assistant, frantically work to craft one of the most beloved screenplays of all time.
An hilarious insight into the five madcap days that brought a Hollywood classic to the screen.
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Bloody Murder
SEASON: 5th October - 30th October 2022
Written by: Ed Sala
By arrangement with ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL on behalf of Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois.
Directed by: Margaret Olive
A group of the typical British murder-mystery types gather for a weekend retreat at a sumptuous country estate. Suddenly one of them dies.
'We’re always at one of these little gatherings, aren’t we? Someone is always murdered in some foul and nefarious way. Every time. Without fail. It completely ruins the party'
As the laughs and the bodies pile up, is this another formulaic Agatha Christie type murder mystery? Or is it something diabolically different?
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