2026 Season
live performance synopses
2026 season
March 19 - 29
Blood Brothers
By Willy Russell
Directed by Kristy Tait-Angel
This dramatic musical, by the author of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, is a haunting rags-to-riches tragedy of our times. After a struggling mother surrenders one of her newborn twins to her childless employer, the brothers grow up streets apart, never learning the truth. In the end, however, the separation of twins commands a heavy price.
Written by Willy Russell, the legendary BLOOD BROTHERS tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with fateful consequences.
Few musicals have received quite such acclaim as the multi-award winning BLOOD BROTHERS. The production ran for more than 10,000 performances in London’s West End, one of only four musicals ever to achieve that milestone. It has been affectionately christened the ‘Standing Ovation Musical’, as inevitably it “brings the audience cheering to its feet and roaring its approval” (The Daily Mail).”
April 30 - May 10
The Maltese Falcon
By David Jacklin
Directed by David Bird
DETECTION, DECEPTION, DEADLY DESIRE.
It’s the 1930’s. Private Detective Sam Spade’s past gives him a jaded view of humanity but even he can not imagine who and what he will encounter when he is drawn into a new case that is not what it first seems.
It’s a maze of blind corners and false turns, populated by dangerous but intriguing characters.People that have pursued “The Falcon” have experienced a thrilling, twisted and treacherous trail.
Now it’s your turn.
July 2 - 12
The Play That Goes Wrong
By Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields
Directed by Carolee Mason
The Play That Goes Wrong is a wildly funny farce about the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’s disastrous attempt to stage a classic murder mystery, The Murder at Haversham Manor. From the first cue, everything unravels—sets collapse, lines vanish, and chaos reigns—but the determined cast refuses to give up. Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, this high-energy show is part whodunit, part slapstick spectacle, and entirely hilarious. A love letter to live theatre and its unbreakable performers, it promises an evening of side-splitting surprises and nonstop laughter as everything that could go wrong… gloriously does!
September 24 – October 4
Having Hope at Home
By David S. Craig
Directed by Grace Main
In a drafty farmhouse not far from Perth Ontario, a comedy of forgiveness and hope. Laughter and tension rise as three generations dance between expectations and realities. A baby is about to arrive in a torrent of family feuding while modern medicine meets midwifery head on. Can a baby heal the rift or will it take another generation? Playwright David S. Craig shows us how the human heart sometimes takes the longest way home. A lighthearted look at a family learning to love again.
October 22 - 25
An Evening of One Act Plays
Directed by Jane Stott
Play 1 – Smoke and Mirrors by John Kenny
Tennessee Williams coined the phrase “memory play”, describing his work The Glass Menagerie. Now, our own local published author, actor, playwright and retired firefighter John Kenny has put his memory play, SMOKE AND MIRRORS, in the hands of director Jane Stott. Narrated by the main character, Brent, he is in every scene along with 7 other characters, but always wears a hospital gown. The action slips seamlessly between a firehouse, a hospital room, and a warehouse fire. Brent has a dark secret that he hasn’t shared with anyone, and the clock is ticking on how much time he has left to make it right. This play will be our entry in the 2026 EODL One Act Play Festival.
Play 2 – Title TBA.
November 26 - December 6
The Woman in Black
By Stephan Mallatratt
Directed by Chrystine Williams
Experience the haunting suspense of The Women in Black! When a young lawyer named Arthur Kipps is sent to a remote English Village to settle the estate of a recently deceased client, he discovers an eerie marsh, a mysterious house and a terrifying secret that will curse his life forever. As the Woman in Black appears, past and present collide in a thrilling story of fear, loss and revenge. Playwright Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s best-selling ghost story is bound to keep you on the edge of your seat biting your nails.
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