Coming up at The Priory

With around 7 in house productions produced by Priory members each year, plus countless more external organisations hosting events in our spaces, there’s something for everyone to enjoy at The Priory!

We regularly add to our upcoming list as more gets booked into our calendar, so make sure you check back regularly to secure your tickets before they’re gone!


Dec
12
to 30 Dec

Puss in Boots

Directed By Mike Brooks

A Traditional Family Panto

The village of Little Dribbley is under threat from unscrupulous developers, led by the dastardly Baron Bombastic. His boss, a giant ogre, wants to flatten the village and drill for oil.

King Cuthbert Crumble and his daughter Princess Apricot are intent on stopping this but they have no resources to fight it, so need to put up the rents.

The village matriarch Dame Daisy Donut and her sons Colin and Billy have problems of their own – their farm is failing and they can’t afford the rent. All they have left is the farm cat… Could this mangy moggy have the answers to everyone’s woes?

Join us for this sparkling new swashbuckling panto with bags of comedy, music, spectacle and plenty of festive family fun.

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Oct
24
to 2 Nov

Quartet

Directed by John Evans

Three ageing opera singers Cissy, Reggie and Wilf, who often worked together during their active careers, are now living in a retirement home for musicians. Their peace is soon to be shattered by the arrival of Jean, a popular star in her time and was once briefly married to Reggie. Each year, on the tenth of October, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday.

Is there any chance that the four will ever sing together again? Do they even want to? Can they do it? 

QUARTET is a wickedly comic play about redefining old age and growing old with hope; demonstrating how art illuminates life and the human spirit remains undimmed even as the brightest stars start to fade.

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Sep
5
to 15 Sep

A Bunch of Amateurs

Directed by Karen Shayler

Keen to boost his flagging career, fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steele arrives in England to play King Lear in Stratford – only to find that this is not the birthplace of the Bard, but a sleepy Suffolk village.

And instead of Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench, the cast are a bunch of amateurs trying to save their theatre from developers. Jefferson’s monstrous ego, vanity and insecurity are tested to the limit by the enthusiastic am-dram thespians.

As acting worlds collide and Jefferson’s career implodes, he discovers some truths about himself – along with his inner Lear!

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Jul
11
to 21 Jul

Tiptoe Through the Tombstones

Directed by Mike Brooks

Mortimer Crayle, a crusty old lawyer, and his secretary Zoe, have gathered the last remaining Tomb family members (an offbeat bunch) at Monument House, to inform them about their inheritance. But Crayle has designs on the inheritance which demand the death of all the Tombs. 

As fog descends on the gloomy mansion, in the cobwebby corridors things are seldom what they seem.  With poison in every decanter and mysterious disappearances into secret passageways, host and guests alike join the increasing number of bodies in the cellar. 

A glorious spoof , a worthy sequel to A Tomb with a View.

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Jun
2
to 9 Jun

Steptoe and Son

Directed by Kate Guest

Albert Steptoe, a "dirty old man", is an elderly rag-and-bone man, set in his grimy and grasping ways. By contrast, his son, Harold is filled with social aspirations, not to say pretensions.

Two lives knitted together as tight as a thrice darned sock. Bound together by birth, business and bloody bad luck, Albert and Harold Steptoe wake up every morning to the same old, same old, sickening sight of each other. Do they even notice the world turning as they cling on?

Adapted from the legendary scripts of Galton and Simpson, Steptoe and Son charts the surprising dance of father and son.

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May
4
to 5 May

Moods and Memories

Presented by Spa Opera

A musical journey through songs that bring back memories and moods including some classic songs such as "Feeling Good", "What a wonderful World", "You Raise Me Up" and "Life is a Cabaret". 😁🎶❤

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Apr
18
to 28 Apr

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Directed by Kevin Wing
Musical Direction - Claire Tyler

Set on the French Riviera, a debonair English con man masquerades as a disinherited prince to seduce unattached ladies and persuades them to part with their cash. He has the local police chief in his pocket and all is going well, until a rival con man arrives in town.

At first, the suave and experienced Lawrence Jameson takes the rookie con man, Freddy, under his wing. But soon Freddy is successful enough that he tries to compete directly with Lawrence.

With a variety of musical styles ranging from an Oklahoma hoedown to big power ballads and French chanson, this Broadway and West End musical is full of laughs, great music and good old fashion razzle dazzle!

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Mar
9
to 11 Mar

Peter Pan (PYT)

Directed by Sarah Langley & George Pensom

The Priory Youth Theatre brings us the sparkling production of J.M.Barrie’s well known magical tale about a boy who doesn’t want to grow up.

On a visit to the home of the Darling family to recover his shadow, Peter Pan invites the Darling children Wendy, Michael and John to fly off into the night with him to ‘Never-Never Land’ to meet his group of ‘lost boys’ where they get mixed up in his adventures with Pirates, Indians and even a crocodile.

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Jan
29
to 3 Feb

Frost/Nixon

Directed by Darren Scott

British talk-show host David Frost has become a lowbrow laughing-stock. Richard M. Nixon has just resigned the United States presidency in total disgrace over Vietnam and the Watergate scandal.

Determined to resurrect his career, Frost risks everything on a series of in-depth interviews in order to extract an apology from Nixon. The cagey Nixon, however, is equally bent on redeeming himself in his nation's eyes. Both men are desperate to outtalk and upstage each other as the cameras roll. The result is the interview that sealed a president's legacy.

Structured as a prize fight between two starkly ambitious men in professional crisis, FROST/NIXON makes it clear that the competitor who controls the camera reaps the spoils.

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