The play is set over four consecutive nights in a run down hotel room with four different couples staying each night who are connected in one way or another. Scenes are linked with housekeeping staff gossiping while remaking beds etc.

Each couple have their own reasons for staying at this hotel. The first two have not been away from their four year old twins since they were born so we have a nervous mum; the second young couple are on their first time away in a hotel with all that that entails; the third are on a stopover before embarking on a cruise, and the fourth couple - in a very poignant scene - are returning to the hotel for the first time since their honeymoon 50 years ago as the wife wants to see if it evokes any memories for her husband who has dementia. 

June 1944. Pressure by David Haig is an intense real-life thriller centred around the most important weather forecast in the history of warfare. The Allied forces led by General Eisenhower are poised to launch the biggest invasion ever known in Europe: D-Day with 350,000 lives at stake.

One last crucial question remains: will the weather be right on the day? American celebrity weatherman, Colonel Krick, predicts sunshine while a tenacious, hard- headed Scot, Dr James Stagg, Chief Meteorological Officer for the Allied Forces, forecasts a storm. If he is right, the invasion will be a disaster leading to massive loss of life. Eisenhower must decide which of these bitter antagonists to trust.

David Haig's superb play explores the responsibilities of leadership and captures the extraordinary pressure its characters were under at this crucial turning point in the Second World War, with wit, compassion and sheer dramatic verve. 

Through its central characters Marianne and Roland, Constellations explores how even the smallest change in our lives can dramatically alter the course we take. Its a spellbinding exploration of love, science, quantum theory, and infinite possibility for heartbreak or hope. 

We're taking this production to Colchester's Headgate Theatre the week after its performance run at the Quay - an exciting venture and not something we've done for some while. 

A gripping real life drama set at the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 residents died in June 2017.

‘Value Engineering’ is a term used in the building industry to describe a process whereby the cost of a project is minimised without reducing quality. In the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower ‘value engineering’ resulted in a cost saving of £300,000 by changing the specification from a non-flammable zinc rainscreen for the exterior of the tower to an aluminium product with a highly flammable polyethylene core.

The play is a contemporary political drama made entirely from spoken evidence given under oath to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry between November 2017 and March 2021 in a process that's estimated to have cost well over £1 billion. The evidence presented in the play is principally concerned with the cause of the fire, decisions surrounding the refurbishment of the tower, compliance with building regulations and the response of the London Fire Brigade. The evidence inevitably raises questions – who was responsible for this tragedy and why, seven years later, has no-one been charged with wrongdoing? 

1663. Charles II reopens the Playhouses and, for the first time, allows women to take to the stage. For five women, Nell Gwyn, Doll Common, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall and Mary Betterton, who were pioneers in the world of female performance, this signals the beginning of a new chapter in their lives. On stage, the women become household names; behind the scenes, they develop strong friendships and fierce rivalries. As the camaraderie and chaos of the dressing room ignites their ambitions to play a bigger part in the theatre, can the women stick together to negotiate greater roles? Will their new found fame bring with it better fortunes? 

December

Pantomime

The Christmas 2025 pantomime is being programmed separately to the play season - details to follow in due course.