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Reading:                      Sunday 2nd February 2020, 6.00 pm, Foyer, Hampton Hill Theatre

Audition:                      Sunday 16th February 2020, 6.00 pm, Coward Suite, Hampton Hill Theatre

Performance Dates:   Saturday 9th May – Friday 15th May 2020 (Auditorium)

Loot by Joe Orton
Directed by Nigel Cole

Two young lovers stash the proceeds of a bank robbery in an occupied coffin, attempting to hide their spoils from the attentions of a psychopathic policeman, a serial-killer nurse and a grieving widower. In the ensuing comic carnage, Joe Orton creates a world gone mad, wielding a satirical sledgehammer to conventional English morality.

This glorious, frenetic black farce from one of Britain’s finest (and arguably) filthiest playwrights is an actor’s dream. Farce always requires huge physicality and energy but in Loot, Orton’s signature rapid-fire wordplay will also demand great verbal dexterity and accuracy.

Reading:                          Sunday 20th October, 6.00 pm, Foyer, Hampton Hill Theatre
Audition:                         Sunday 27th October, 6.00 pm, Coward Suite, Hampton Hill Theatre
Performance Dates:      Sunday 23rd February – Saturday 29th February 2020 (Coward Studio)

The Revlon Girl by Neil Anthony Docking
Directed by Kelly Wood

Aberfan.  October 21st 1966, 0915.  The spoil tip on top of the mountain collapsed, sending tonnes of slag thundering down to the village, smothering the school. 144 people died. 116 of them were children.

Eight months later, and the bereaved mothers meet once a week to laugh, to cry, to heal together. At one of the meetings, the women admitted how much they had let themselves go. Afraid of what other people would think, they secretly arrange for a representative from Revlon to come and give them a talk on beauty tips. The Revlon Girl tells the real life story of that rainy Tuesday night.