After an 18-month, COVID-induced gap, theatre returns to Arts Centre Washington in September and the first show is The Killer Question by David Payne, presented by Just Some Theatre, a comedy thriller in which The Silence Of The Lambs meets Last Of The Summer Wine and the audience gets to decide which actor plays which part. It's at 7:30 on 23 September.
The rest of the season features:
30 September
Sessions
By Ifeyinwa Frederick
A Paines Plough / Soho Theatre production
Tunde’s 30th birthday is fast approaching. He’s just started therapy because he hasn’t been able to get to the gym for weeks and a recent one-night stand ended in tears—his. A raw, funny, bittersweet deep-dive into the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy.
7 October
Where Is Mrs Christie?
A new one-woman show by Chris Jaeger, performed by Liz Grand
In 1926, thriller writer Agatha Christie was at the centre of a mystery as perplexing as any of her fiction when she went missing, presumed dead by many, for eleven days.
14 October
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A new version of Robert Louis Stephenson’s classic story by The Pantaloons.
“Part alternative rock band, part thespian,” said the Sunday Times. “Wholly charming.”
21 October
The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe
Written and directed by Elton Townend Jones.
Performed by Lizzie Wort.
August 5, 1962: Monroe as we’ve never seen her before: alone in her bedroom, in dressing gown and underwear; no glitz, no glamour, no masks. Overdosed on pills, the woman behind the icon unravels her remarkable life, taking us back through the memories of her closest relationships.
4 November
Haddock and Chips
By Janet Plater
It’s a busy night at Frankie’s Chippy, as always. From lasses heading out on the town, to those just passing through and the regulars who have been coming here for years. But when reports start coming in of a little girl gone missing, the community must pull together to find her before it’s too late. Will they see what was under their noses all along?
11 November
Provoked to Madness by the Brutality of Wealth
Written and performed by gobscure
"a homeless hostel ‘support worker’ once said ‘what dya need books for yr homeless?’
our revenge was thirteen years of reading, graduating from the open university, 2016.
A highly visual performance about asking questions, regaining our voices, ‘rewriting the future.’"
25 November
Door-to-Door Poetry: Nationwide
Written and performed by Rowan McCabe
Rowan McCabe is the world’s first Door-to-Door Poet. He knocks on strangers' doors and writes poems for them, for free, on any subject of their choosing. In March 2019, he set off on an adventure around England, visiting one location every month for 12 months. He was trying to prove absolutely anyone can enjoy poetry. As March 2020 approached, the project was pushed in a very different direction…
16 December
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
Adapted by Adam Z Robinson
Music arranged and performed by Chloë Hayward
Presented by The Book of Darkness & Light in association with LittleMighty
Marley was dead… to begin with.
Suitable for ages 8+
Please note: productions will have reduced capacities to allow for socially distanced seating.