Award-winning playwright, Lucy Kirkwood, brings us Mosquitoes. A story of sibling love. Two sisters pulling in different directions. Alice is a scientist. Living in Geneva, she is on the brink of the most exciting work of her life, searching for the Higgs Boson particle. Jenny, her sister, lives in Luton. She spends a lot of time Googling. They both view the world very differently. When tragedy throws them together, the collision threatens everyone with chaos. This is a play absorbed with the connection between the insignificant and the cosmic. The more we understand, the less we understand. Every new discovery brings new things to fear. Recommended for ages 15+ This play features strong language, sexual content, Self harm and racism & racial slurs This play includes the smoking of herbal cigarettes

Following highly successful tours in Texas, France, Holland, Belgium and Spain over the past few years, radio, television and recording artists, The Swing Commanders, return to the Little Theatre for another fabulous visit. This hugely talented, high-energy Lancashire band has wowed listeners and dancers alike through its unique presentation of some of the finest music from the 30s, 40s and 50s, with its array of six specialist musicians, five solo voices and as for instruments well we will leave you to count for yourself! Here is an opportunity to see why sold out notices and standing ovations are regular features of performances by these international artistes, who have established a reputation as Europe's top Western Swing band in theatres, festivals and dance halls. So, let them take you back in time for a special evening of Swing classics with a champagne sparkle. They really are the cats with the cream of Forties classics, so just sit back and sample the sweet Swing sensation that is - The Swing Commanders!

Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield. However, Jamie is a little different to the other teenagers at his school. He harbors a secret dream: to be a drag queen! But first, he needs to find the confidence to be his true self beyond the walls of his home. Although Jamie is terrified about the future, he knows that, one way or another, he will be a sensation. He is supported every step of the way by his loving mum, Margaret, who would do anything for her boy. He also has the love and support of his best school friend, Pritti, who reassures Jamie that his difference is what makes him beautiful. Despite the bullying, the prejudice, and the public humiliation, Jamie learns to embrace his inner queen and steps into the spotlight...his spotlight. 14+ age guidance advised as the show contains strong language.

The scene is the Tower of London. Falsely accused of sorcery by a kinsman who will inherit his estate should he die unmarried, the condemned Colonel Fairfax determines to thwart him, and asks his old friend, Sergeant Meryll to arrange a marriage with anyone ' the meanest, and the worst favoured is good enough'. Enter Elsie Maynard and Jack Point, two strolling players sorely in need of money, and the offer of 100 crowns soon persuades them to let Elsie be blindfolded and marry a man who is to die that very day. So it is arranged......

The story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin Follow half-orphan Pips extraordinary exploits with sisters Pippa and Poppy and best friend Harry Biscuit, as they attempt to escape the calculating clutches of the dastardly Mr Gently Benevolent, defeat the hideous Hardthrasher siblings, and deflect disaster at every turn!Will evil be vanquished by virtue? Can love triumph over hate? Based on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, Bleak Expectations is a hilarious, chaotic caper, featuring dastardly villains, preposterous names, pulse-quickening romances, heart-rending death scenes, and definitely, probably, hopefully a happy ending.

Norman is an unlikely Lothario. When he tells his career-obsessed wife Ruth that he is going away on business, he is in reality planning an illicit weekend with his sister-in-law Annie. But their plans are ruined by the arrival of Annie's brother Reg and his prudish wife Sarah. Sarah finds out about the "dirty weekend" and calls Ruth to come and put a stop to her husband's philandering, not helped by the arrival of Annie's kind, but slowwitted suitor Tom. Too much alcohol, too much sexual tension and too little food, and you have the perfect recipe for a disastrously hilarious weekend of eating, drinking, and misunderstanding.

The Bob Hope Theatres youth drama group, New Stagers, present this comedy play telling the story of two of the biggest fairy tale villains, the Big Bad Wolf and the Wicked Witch, brought to trial. Hear the personal accounts of what happened, told in testimonies and flashback sequences, from characters such as Snow White, Dorothy, Sleeping Beauty, the Three Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, and many others. Even the Witch and the Wolf themselves must defend themselves! You, the audience, are the jury, and you decide each final verdict - live!

Shortly after an unspecified apocalypse, six survivors gather at a campfire. To distract themselves from mourning, they attempt to recount the episode "Cape Feare" of the TV show The Simpsons, as well as several other pieces of media. Seven years later, the group has formed a travelling theatre company that specialises in performing Simpsons episodes. Live theatre is a major entertainment form in the new society, with troupes fiercely competing to replicate pre-apocalyptic stories. Despite this goal, the group's rendition of Cape Feare differs from the real episode in many small ways. During a rehearsal, the group is attacked by armed robbers, with their fates unknown. 75 years after that, Cape Feare is performed as a musical in a theatre dedicated to The Simpsons. The characters, plot and morals have changed into more serious and epic forms. For example, Mr. Burns has been combined with Sideshow Bob (the actual Cape Feare villain) and is now a supernatural avatar of death and destruction.

Eldorado Musical Productions invite you to join the beloved Ren Artois, his eccentric wife Edith, and a cast of quirky characters for a hilarious and thrilling adventure in occupied France. Reunite with your favourite TV personalities in this side-splitting sequel where caf life collides with espionage, romance, and the bumbling attempts of the resistance. Based on the hugely popular TV comedy series, this sequel to the popular stage production of Allo Allo continues the adventures of reluctant resistance hero and harassed caf owner, Ren Artois, in German-occupied wartime France. It features many of your favourite characters from the TV series and original stage play.

Bromley Players is proud to revisit seminal musical Rent, Jonthan Larson's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that shaped a generation of audiences and taught us all to measure our life in love. Set in the East Village of New York City, Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent has become a pop cultural phenomenon. with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages. Rent it tells of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village in the thriving days of bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Set at the dawn of the 1990s, a group of New Yorkers struggle with their careers, love lives and the effects of the AIDS epidemic on their community.

Liz Burville Performing Arts has been training children and young people in Dance, Musical Theatre, Drama and Singing for over 30 years. The fully equipped studios in Bexley have been the home to many successful professional performers and teachers.