Amateur youth production by pupils of St Columba's College and Princess Helena College.

Moving, witty and thought provoking, this award-winning partly autobiographical drama is a superb example of the best of modern American theatre.

Not The Complete Works, but a Shakesperience for an audience of all ages to enjoy.

Booking on 01727 860217 or admin@theatrix.co.uk.

Victorian anxieties about immigration, unemployment, radical politics and loose morals still have vibrant echoes today.

Most of the characters have something to hide but Jekyll's struggles with his own demon have a gripping and poignant intensity.

Meet the long-suffering Bob Cratchit and his loving family, Scrooge's nephew Fred, and the jolly, generous Fezziwigs. Witness the supernatural visits from Jacob Marley and those famous Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Enjoy the festive atmosphere at the Abbey Theatre, where this lively, colourful family production really will get you into the Christmas Spirit!

Tickets from £5. Performances on different days at 2:30, 5:30 and 7:30 pm (see Booking Form for details)

Inaugural concert featuring performances from local young jazz musicians and vocalists in big band and small group combos.

It will also feature some special guest musicians.

Directed by Andy Badalley and Bob Power

Tickets £5

Matinee at 2.30pm on Sunday 13 February. No performance on Monday 14 February.

Able to entertain with their ability to handle complicated multi-part harmony numbers mixed with a selection of humorous songs and routines, Con-Fusion can also rock with the best, having provided many hours of up tempo dance for weddings and birthdays.

For more information, see the Con-Fusion website

Join us on Tower Hill to find out what happens to the prisoner in the Tower, and the Merry Man and his Maid

Combining live performance with unique film footage, singer and television personality Isla St Clair presents this delightfully nostalgic, poignant and humorous look at the effects of music in wartime. As well as performing a selection of popular songs Isla tells the stories behind them. Joining Isla is film maker Patrick King who gives a fascinating and humorous 'behind-the-scenes' look at the making of their award winning documentary films. Using film clips they illustrate how songs and music played an important part in people's daily lives: for boosting morale, for propaganda or for just reminding people of better times during some of the darkest days in our history.

Eyes Front! is a rich blend of story and song, poignancy and pathos, humour and heartache which results in a light hearted family show that is both informative and wonderfully entertaining.

Matinee at 3pm on Saturday 16 April as well as evening performance

A progressive rock band in Prague and the music of Pink Floyd symbolise the resistance for the young people.

The Festival of New Playwriting provides a showcase for new plays by playwrights from Herts, Beds and Bucks. The plays will be performed on the Main Stage at the Abbey Theatre. The plays and productions will be judged by independent adjudicator Philip Osment, who will adjudicate on the each evening's plays at the end of the evening. Awards for the best play and production will be presented on the final night.

Philip is a writer, director and actor. His plays include The Dearly Beloved, What I Did in the Holidays and Flesh and Blood. He is a special writer because not only can he write, he also generously shares the secrets of his craft.

TUESDAY 21 JUNE, 7pm
Making Waves by Anne Stafford Murray
A late middle aged/recently retired couple arrive for a day out on the beach at an English resort on the south coast. Their peace and tranquillity are soon disturbed by news of a dream property coming under serious threat of demolition. Sparks start to fly among family members at odds over a large piece of wood. At the end of the day, what price dreams? (The Company of Ten)

Smashed by Benita Cullingford
When a party of 26 ladies from a British writing society hires a French chateau for the week, anything might happen. Five of the ladies are amateur thespians. The action of the play follows the first three days of their holiday, while they plan to entertain the rest of the party with a play. Although gallantly led by producer, Miranda, rehearsals become chaotic. There are too many distractions! (The Company of Ten)

WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE, 7pm
The Visitation by Jane Fookes
A pleasant lunchtime visit to Dad - what could possibly go wrong? (The Company of Ten)

Silent Ambition by Jo Coleman
Documentary researcher Roz is determined to prove that St Albans-based film-maker, Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, was a champion of early British cinema. As well as producing silent movies and animations, Melbourne-Cooper opened Hertfordshire's first purpose-designed cinema, the St Albans Alpha Picture Palace, on London Road. During the course of the play, which is set in the modern day, Roz's research into Melbourne-Cooper's achievements brings him back from the past. Although a century divides them, they are united by a shared understanding of the pressures of work on family life. As Roz learns more about Melbourne-Cooper she is forced to reassess her own priorities. (The Heritage Players of St Albans Operatic Society)

The Home Front by Janette MacEwan
Ivy, an elderly widow who has been all through the Blitz in London in the last war, moves out of the house into the old Anderson air-raid shelter in the garden from which she will not be budged. Ivy has fallen out with her son-in-law, big time, causing her daughter to have a breakdown and leaving the two adult grandchildren to cope with this bizarre situation. Inevitably, after breaking her hip, Ivy ends up in a nursing home where she meets Norman who was a navigator on bombers in the war and they get on like 'a house on fire' until . . . (The Company of Ten)

THURSDAY 23 JUNE, 7pm
The Man at the Door by Ian Jordan
Rich, a young writer struggling to follow up early success, sits at his blank computer. There is a knock at the door. In comes Jay, an embittered and politically incorrect salesman, seeking help. The two soon strike up a very unusual friendship that has serious implications for Rich's relationship with his girlfriend Abby. Suspicious of her boyfriend's new best buddy Abby begins to ask the question: is this man all he seems? The Man at the Door is a play about friendship, judgment, and creativity. (All Actors Are Psychotic)

Famous Island by Katie Smith
When tax changes and divorce laws conspire against an unsuspecting millionaire, there is only one option left: to have his death faked and to be transported to a secret tropical destination called Famous Island, where the rich and famous live out the rest of their lives in peace away from the real world. What follows is a series of encounters with several supposedly deceased celebrities, along with romantic and dramatic adventures. (Knebworth Amateur Theatrical Society)

Refreshing the Tree by Derek Rhodes
Sometime in the future; a dangerously unstable time. A cottage, deep in the English countryside, lashed by a storm. Two women give shelter to a seriously wounded man. But this is not just any man, this is a special man: a very special man. Are they putting themselves in danger by harbouring him? Then two other men are driven to the cottage looking for shelter, and perhaps something else. (The Company of Ten)

FRIDAY 24 JUNE, 7pm
Other People's Lives by Mial Pagan
Mick, an anarchist, opens a new squat in Brixton and with it a fresh chapter in the lives of a group of political activists with varying ideals and visions of the world. The breadth of their beliefs creates frictions which simmer constantly but are tolerated and kept in check by the closeness of their relationships. Then Alan, a manipulative outsider, arrives to expose the fault lines between them and snap the fragile bonds that keep the group together. His actions and the corrosive effect of Mick's personal demons test unity, friendship and idealism to destruction. (The Company of Ten)

Four-Fifths of a Fiver by Jan Haniff
After graduation the five friends each took a piece of a five pound note and promised to meet up in twenty-five years. That day has come but only four can return. The other is dead. As their reunion progresses the friends are shocked to discover their departed friend was not quite what he'd seemed. (The Company of Ten)

This performance will be followed by an adjudication on the evening's plays by Philip Osment and the announcement of the winners of the three awards.

SATURDAY 25 JUNE, 7pm
Performances of the winning plays of the three Festival awards:

The Tony Sidoli Award for Playwriting
The Best Play by a Playwright Under 25
The Best Performance of a Play in the Festival

The performances will be followed by the presentation of the 2011 Abbey Theatre Playwriting Festival Awards. The Tony Sidoli Award will be presented by his sister, Sylvia Sidoli. The other awards will be presented by Paul Davidson, chairman of the Abbey Theatre Trust.

The studio provides an intimate setting for this skilful stage adaptation of Thomas Hardy's bittersweet story "On the Western Circuit." Firmly rooted in late Victorian "Wessex", this is a drama which still resonates for us all in the 21st century.

The Company of Teens was founded over ten years ago and has gone from strength to strength, winning awards at local drama festivals, and they consistently present a high quality of work.

Tickets will cost £8 (£5 concessions, and £priority for CoT members) and are available through the box office (until 9 July), online, and on the night at the door