First public performance on Wed 25 Jan, no Friday performance on 27 Jan

This superb play by a former Chilean exile, is a poignant reminder of the atrocities that go unnoticed around the world. The play is set in a war-torn village where all the men have disappeared. Their mothers, wives and daughters wait by the river and mourn. It is only when bodies start to be washed up that the women defy the military in the only form of protest known to them. A powerful and very thought provoking play.

Contains strong language

Starts at 7:45pm. Performances Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9-11 and 16-18 February.

A surreal double bill by a well known local theatre company. One sofa, three stories - Peter Hawes' comedic and touching tale of finding love in the strangest of places ... even down the back of the sofa. Jim Cartwright offers a peek at the dreams of a group of people forced to spend the night time hours together in an enormous bed under the malevolent view of a bitter and resentful bed head.

Picture an Irish country house in the golden autumn of 1900, and let the names Beatrice and Benedick, Dogberry and Verges evoke the dark drama and bittersweet comedy of one of Shakespeare's wittiest, most elegant plays.

In his sonnets, Shakespeare wrote frankly on love, sex, jealousy, betrayal, youth and age. Our selection of these works will, through performance and music, make for a lively, entertaining evening that promises to engage both the head and the heart.

Evening performances (Tuesday - Saturday) at 7:30pm.
Matinee only, Sunday 25th at 3pm

The young geisha Cio Cio San, Puccini's Madame Butterfly, is one of opera's more positive and optimistic heroines. Very much in love with American naval lieutenant Pinkerton, she marries him and never doubts that he will return to Japan "one fine day". But when he does return, her world is completely shattered.

A talented cast of professional soloists with chorus and orchestra are directed by Phyl Swindlehurst.

Tickets £17 (students £10) from the theatre box office 01727 857861

Evening performances at 8pm; Saturday matinee at 3pm

The whole family will love this toe-tapping musical which is based on Hans Christian Anderson's story of The Ugly Duckling. Honk! tells the story of an odd looking baby duck, Ugly, and his quest to find his mother. Along the way he meets some great characters, falls in love and finds out who he really is.

When it was first produced Honk! won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical beating The Lion King and Mamma Mia. Drewe and Stiles are also the authors of Mary Poppins, Betty Blue Eyes and Just So.

Tickets will cost £7.50 - £9 (concessions available on Saturday matinee).

In the small, crowded dressing room of a west-end theatre, understudies Regina and Stella sit discussing the rudiments of knitting, shopping at Sainsbury's - and how to improve their chances of getting on stage. This gentle comedy takes a poignant look at the persistent frustration and thwarted ambition of Regina and Stella, who are - unwittingly - principal players in their own tragedy.

(This play will replace the previously planned Six Characters Looking for an Author.)

Young graphic artist Julia is badly injured in a car crash that kills her colleague and lover. Housebound and depressed, she is tormented by a prowler and the attention of her lover's excessively solicitous widow. As the tension builds in this psychological study of guilt and obsession, will Julia's affair cost her her own life?

A masterpiece of black farce, Loot follows the fortunes of two unscrupulous young thieves who have robbed the bank next to a funeral parlour. Orton's classic satire has in its sights the Roman Catholic Church, the police force and society's attitude to death.

This clever and maliciously witty comedy comments on the scandal and intrigue of London Society in the nineteenth century. Oscar Wilde's plays have always proved immensely popular with our audiences and we are very pleased to be able to offer this play as our final production of the season.