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Love and Money
Funny but heart-wrenching, this ingenious drama dares us to enter a dislocated world of bad debts and even worse desires. 1st–4th May
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Ringmaster
A whispered suggestion. An accidental caress. A drunken encounter behind the back of a club… In our sexual & romantic lives, how do public personas influence private performances? Is it still-forbidden acts and infidelities that shock us, or the identity of the people who perform them? What does it take to truly consent? And are you really as in control of sex and love as you think…? 30th–31st Jan, 1st–3rd Feb
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Love and Money Readthrough
An examination of how love is destroyed by materialism: told backwards from a man describing his wife’s suicide to escape debt until the play ends with his wife's excitement following his proposal. In between, her parents are upset by a memorial overshadowing their daughter’s grave, David “sells out” and tries to change his career and job to get more money, Jess witnesses a murder, and Duncan makes an “offer” to Debbie. We will be reading the script for our May 2019 show - come along to read, or just listen. 10th Jan
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Death Before Marriage
Days before Eve Millington's wedding, her family home is burgled by an infamous thief looking to lay hands on a priceless gem. Events take a sinister twist when people start to die in mysterious circumstances – there is more going on at Stargrove than a burglary. As the bodies pile up, the investigators form a cunning plan to uncover a secret that has laid buried for twenty years. 5th–8th Dec
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The Pitmen Painters
In 1934 the miners of the Ashington Colliery were determined to better themselves, so they hired a professor to teach them Art Appreciation. They were a wonderfully argumentative bunch but when the posh academic arrives to teach them, they were united in not understanding a word he said. Seeing their confusion he wisely sets them to making art themselves. 10th–13th Oct
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Launch Party for 2019 Season
Your opportunity to find out what is in the 2019 Season. 15th Sep
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Odes to Joy
Writers: Network Theatre are looking for joyful, creative, entertaining, dramatic and original pieces of new writing for a festival of shorts to be held on Saturday 18 August 2018. You have until Friday 15 June 2018 to submit for consideration original sketches and plays of 2-10 minutes in length. 18th Aug
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The Pitmen Painters Script Reading
4th Jul
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As You Like It
It's the Summer of Love in the Forest of Arden..... come on down (beads and flowers in your hair optional). 18th–21st, 25th–28th Apr
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