First performed at Scarborough in 2001, this is a fine follow up to the Company of Ten's production of Ayckbourn's House and Garden in the summer of 2004.

The Company of Ten feel privileged to be performing this play during the centenary year of Ibsen's death.

This year's production is from the group who gave us The Little Shop of Horrors and Guys & Dolls in previous years.

An Amateur production by arrangement with Warner/Chappell Ltd.

By the author of The Dresser, produced by the Company of Ten in 1983, this bittersweet comedy was first produced in 1999.

Tickets and further information from the organisers on 01727 761870 NOT from the Theatre Box Office

Continuing its tradition of presenting first class family entertainment, this Christmas the Company of Ten is producing The Firework Maker's Daughter.

Following the well received The Wind in the Willows and The Secret Garden, this delightful story is adapted from the novel by Philip Pullman, one of our most popular contemporary children's authors, best known for his trilogy, ?His Dark Materials?.

Lila longs to become a famous firework maker like her father. To achieve her goal, she has to undertake a perilous journey to find the special magic she needs to make the best fireworks in the land. With help from her friend Chulak and his White Elephant, Hamlet, Lila faces many trials and dangers. Will she triumph over these adversities to become a champion firework maker?

This acclaimed adaptation by Stephen Russell is perfect Christmas entertainment, and is certain to enthral children and grown ups alike, with its colourful mix of characters and its charming story of a young girl's quest to realise her dream.

NB - note altered dates of production from those originally published.

Shakespeare's last play is also his strangest and most fascinating. The combination of magic and romance, revenge and knock-about humour, music and spectacle all come together in an enigmatic marvel of a play that after nearly four hundred years, still has the power to send audiences home filled with excitement and whirling ideas. To see this magic in an intimate studio production is to experience something of the closeness Jacobean audiences enjoyed when Shakespeare was simply an exciting playwright and not covered in mountains of scholarship and lakes of ink.

Shakespeare's dramatic art reached new places, new heights with this play. Come and enjoy it !

Kenny Roach is a talented Scottish artist who has it all; the career he always dreamed of - painting and lecturing on an alternative art history at the University, an artist wife and a beautiful son. But Kenny Roach has demons. Kenny Roach drinks. Kenny Roach is an alcoholic.

The Colours of Kenny Roach looks at part of the journey that Kenny must make from realisation to recovery.

Tickets will be £7.50 and will include cheese and wine at 7:30 before the performance starts at 8:00pm.

Jon Russell will be directing John Stenhouse in the lead role as Kenny with Rebecca Russell as Lisa his wife and Rosemary Goodman as Celia their mentor and friend. The play features work from many great artists from Michelangelo to our own Claire McInnerny and an exciting new artist Alice Maloney.

This is a gritty play on a difficult subject and as such contains some strong language.

Although well-known for his comic operas Don Pasquale and L'elisir d'amore, Donizetti also composed many great music dramas on historical themes. Mary, Queen of Scots, sought all through her life for a meeting with her cousin Elizabeth I who promised to visit Mary while she was a prisoner in England but never did.

Dramatist Friedrich Schiller imagined that the two queens did meet at Fortheringhay and it is on his play that Donizetti's great opera is based. The resulting dramatic confrontation is witnessed by three other historical characters, William Cecil (Lord Burghley), Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury whose stories all intertwine with those of both queens. Add courtiers, huntsmen, servants and a truly melodious score and we promise you an evening to remember.

Please note that Wit runs for approximately ninety minutes and there will be no interval.

The Shakespeare Schools Festival is the UK's largest youth drama festival, working with 25,000 pupils in 1,050 schools. This is the second time the Abbey Theatre has provided a venue for the event. A limited number of tickets are available to the public.

Why not support this group of extremely talented youngsters whose past shows include Oklahoma, Broadway Pirates, Pendragon, Godspell and The Wiz? You'll be sorry if you miss it!

In Shot Actress, Full Story! a watchmaker's life is turned upside down when he finds his neighbour dead in her bathroom. Exposing the lethal consequences of press hysteria, this poignant tale appears at first to be a whodunnit, but turns out to be a compassionate insight into the pain of a lonely man.

As a lighter introduction, Padden portrays H.E. Bates in The Great Opportunity, taken from Bates's autobiography The Vanished World, with Bates reminiscing about falling in love, getting his first job as a junior reporter on a local paper, and taking his first steps as a writer.

Launched to mark the centenary of Bates's birth in 1905, the show has been highly praised by audiences in studio theatres and village halls throughout the country. Graham Padden's performance has been acclaimed as ?a first-class example of single-handed acting, backed by effective sound effects? a quality evening's entertainment.?

The Glory of the Garden is an entertainment on the subjects of gardens, gardeners & gardening.

Having taken home your bargains from our Bring & Buy Plant Sale (12 noon to 4pm) why not return to the theatre and relax while we present an Evening of words & music which we hope will amuse, interest & delight .

A Slight Accident
by James Saunders

Penelope invites a neighbour round for a cup of tea, and admits to doing something 'tiresome'. For how long can her ?slight accident' with her husband be concealed? In this wonderfully insightful and amusing play, Saunders exposes the boredom and disappointment beneath the surface of apparently comfortable middle-class lives

The Lesson
by Eugene Ionesco

Ionesco's early masterpiece is a funny and unsettling account of a meeting between a young student and her professor. It explores the use of knowledge as a means of indoctrination and the dangers of political conformism