Playhouse Season 2025/2026
Check out our upcoming Playhouse Plays for 2025/2026!
The Odd Couple: 26th – 30th November 2024. Seligman Theatre, Chapter Arts Centre.
Created by Neil Simon and directed by Pam Wiener.
Olive and their group of girlfriends are enjoying their weekly Trivial Pursuit night in Olive’s messy and ill-equipped apartment. As the game continues, Florence arrives, fresh from being dumped by her husband. Fearful that the neurotic Florence might attempt suicide, Olive invites her to move in as her roommate.
However, Olive and Florence have VERY different personalities. Where Olive is messy, untidy, and unconcerned about the state of her apartment, Florence is obsessively clean, tidy, and obsessed with hygiene. Olive’s easy-going outlook on life soon clashes with Florence’s highly-strung neurotic tendencies, testing their friendship to the limit.
When Olive organizes a double-date with the Costazuela brothers, their differences come to a head and sparks fly.
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Amadeus: 14th – 18th January 2025. Selgiman Theatre, Chapter Arts Centre.
At Salieri’s death in 1825 rumour was rife that Salieri had poisoned Mozart out of jealousy and spite. In fact this was entirely fabricated – the result of musical factions at the Viennese Court splitting down ethnic lines: the Italians vs the Germans. It IS true that Mozart claimed he had been poisoned as he lay dying – but he never named Salieri. It IS true that Salieri tried and failed to commit suicide but he never accused himself of murdering Mozart.
Thanks to Shaffer’s play and subsequent film, Salieri has become a watchword for mediocrity and jealousy. The theme is slightly different and Peter Hall, the play’s first play at the National Theatre in 1979, sums it up in his diaries:
‘Salieri accuses God for not making him a genius, vows to serve Him, is betrayed by God, takes him on, has a number of combats with Him, and is, as all men must be, finally defeated.’
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Corinth: April 2025. Exact dates and location to be confirmed.
Directed by Seren Vickers.
Tim Davies’ play breathes new life into old legends, presenting three Greek myths in a way you’ve never seen before. Washed up Jason turns to drink and pub-talk reminiscences. Medusa entertains herself with lockdown crafts. And Penelope is terribly sick of sewing. Prepare for tears, titans, titters and terrors as our Greek chorus shape the stage and transport the audience to not-so-Ancient Greece. Heartache blends with humour in this irreverent and relevant spin on Greek mythology.
Corinth is an irreverent, relevant, recycling of Greek mythology. This play excavates and eviscerates the myths of Jason and Medea, Penelope and Odysseus, and Perseus and Medusa. It’s is an invigorating and surprising text. We have undertaken three R&D sessions on the script and found the text to be incredibly fertile.
The traditionally two-dimensional characters from Greek mythology are given flaws and flesh through Tim’s words. Medusa entertains herself with lockdown crafts, Jason – washed ashore with his great ship – turns to drink and pub-talk reminiscences, and Penelope is terribly sick of sewing. Corinth celebrates the traditional conventions of Greek Theatre, including mask work, Chorus involvement and an Orator. However, in this recycled reimaging, classical conventions collide with modern anachronisms and an unapologetically contemporary soundtrack and design.
The Incident Room: October 2025. Dates and location to be confirmed.
Created by Olivia Hurst and David Byrne. Directed by Leanne Knibb
It’s 1975, The Millgarth Incident Room in Leeds is the epicentre of the biggest manhunt in British history, for one of the most notorious serial killers: The Yorkshire Ripper.
With public and political pressure mounting, hundreds of officers must work around the clock and resort to increasingly audacious attempts to end one man’s campaign of terror.
Olivia Hirst and David Byrne’s ‘beautifully crafted’ play goes behind the scenes to investigate the case that nearly broke the British police force.
The Incident Room was first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019, transferring to New Diorama Theatre, London in 2020, ahead of an Off-Broadway run.
‘Completely compelling to watch…intelligent, imaginative and, most of all, damn interesting.’ – The stage.
‘The ingenuity of this piece is that it gives you a pacey, clock-ticking sense of what things were like.’ – Telegraph
Antigone: January 2026. Dates and location to be confirmed.
Directed by Brian Vanduyn.
Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes. She is caught in the act by Creon’s watchmen and brought before the king.
She justifies her action, asserting that she was bound to obey the eternal laws of right and wrong in spite of any human ordinance. Creon, unrelenting, condemns her to be immured in a rock-hewn chamber. His son Haemon, to whom Antigone is betrothed, pleads in vain for her life and threatens to die with her.
Warned by the seer Teiresias Creon repents and hurries to release Antigone from her rocky prison. But he is too late: he finds Antigone who had hanged herself and Haemon who also has perished by his own hand. Returning to the palace he sees within the dead body of his queen who on learning of her son’s death has stabbed herself to the heart.
The Revlon Girl: April 2026. Dates and location to be confirmed.
Eight months after the Aberfan Disaster of 1966, in which 144 people were killed (116 of them children), a group of bereaved mothers meet weekly above a local hotel to talk, cry and even laugh without feeling guilty. At one of their previous meetings, the women looked at each other and admitted how much they felt they’d let themselves go. Afraid that people will think them frivolous, they’ve secretly arranged for a representative from Revlon to come and give them a talk on beauty tips. From that innocent premise, the play delves into the tragic situation with both deep emotion and humour. This beautifully written play by Neil Anthony Docking, will make you laugh and cry…
2026 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan Disaster.
