Are you happy now? Near-future stories drawing on Black Mirror, Margaret Atwood and the black comedy of Killing Eve. Focused on the stories of women, the plays feature all-seeing smart speakers, curing depression in unusual ways, a new way to choose a decent politician and how to look good in the afterlife. Decluttering, one of the pieces within the show, started life as a short story and was the runner-up in the Crime Writers’ Association Margery Allingham Prize 2019.18th–23rd FebShow Ended
A celebration of 80 Years of Network Theatre shows (originally called Southern Railway Dramatic Society). Short extracts from plays performed since 1939 right up to 2019. 1939 – A Damsel in Distress (original novel by P G Wodhouse); directed by Danielle Capretti 1949 – Full House by Ivor Novello; directed by Alastair Callcutt 1979 – Living Together by Alan Ayckbourn; directed by Rebecca Mason 1989 – You Were Perfectly Fine by Dorothy Parker; directed by Kay Murray 1999 – On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard; directed by Paul Evans 1999 – The Bear by Anton Chekhov; directed by Jennie Rich [...]19th OctShow Ended
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a musical comedy revue which contains everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit. BUT IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY BOUGHT YOUR TICKET IT IS TOO LATE NOW AS EVERY PERFORMANCE HAS SOLD OUT.9th–12th OctShow Ended
Network's Play-In-24-Hours is back! This year we will be in the bowels of Waterloo station from the evening of Friday 16th August until late on Saturday 17th August producing multiple pieces of completely original theatre. During the course of a night and a day we will come up with a theme, divide into teams, devise, improvise, script, rehearse, nap, tech, perform our final pieces and then celebrate in the bar.17th AugShow Ended
On the eve of their mother’s funeral, three sisters meet, bicker and reveal the conflicts of the past and its grip on the present, the patterns and strains of family relationships and the distortions of memory.10th–13th JulShow Ended
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 FebShow Ended
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 DecShow Ended
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 OctShow Ended
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