THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
​by Louise Page, adapted from Baroness Orczy 

They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? Is he in hell?  That demmed elusive Pimpernel!
​​Welcome to the French Revolution and Madame la Guillotine is out for revenge. Margueritte St Juste - formerly an actress and the “cleverest woman in Europe” - is torn between three men, her new husband Sir Percy Blakeney, her brother and the power-hungry, aristocrat-hating Chauvelin.
 The elusive Scarlet Pimpernel swashbuckles his way through Paris, but will he be in time to save the life of another innocent victim?
 This sparkling new adaptation from award winning writer Louise Page (Salonika, Golden Girls, Real Estate) brings to the stage blackmail, heroism, faith and romance.
CHESTERFIELD Pomegranate Theatre                              6-8 July
LOWESTOFT Marina Theatre                                           9-10 July
EASTBOURNE  Devonshire Park Theatre              31 July - 4 Aug
NOTTINGHAM Theatre Royal                                       14-18 Aug
WINDSOR Theatre Royal                                                 6 - 8 Sept
BASINGSTOKE The Haymarket                                    26-29 Sept

THE NIGHTMARE ROOM
​adapted from the story by  Arthur Conan Doyle

TWO WOMEN, ONE LOCKED ROOM, ONE BOTTLE OF POISON.
A deliciously dark thriller - from a tale by the master of  mystery and suspense, Arthur Conan Doyle

When Helen regains consciousness, she finds herself bound and blindfolded in a locked room.  Her captor, best friend Catherine, challenges her to a deadly game of  Russian Roulette to decide which of them will win the prize, a handsome film star they both desire.  But the game - like the room - is far from what it seems....
“twists and turns worthy of an agatha christie whodunnit – and a sinister labyrinth of betrayal and revenge that sherlock holmes himself would struggle to solve ... “
EASTBOURNE Devonshire Park Theatre            26 - 30 June
LINCOLN New Theatre Royal                             17 & 18 July
SWANSEA Grand Theatre                                         1 - 4 Aug
NOTTINGHAM Theatre Royal                             21 - 25 Aug
WINDSOR Theatre Royal                                          3 - 5 Sept
CHESTERFIELD Pomegranate Theatre                13 - 15 Sept
BILLINGHAM Forum Theatre                               9 & 10 Oct
ISLE OF WIGHT Shanklin Theatre                        17 - 20 Oct
POOLE Lighthouse Theatre                                       1 - 3 Nov
BASINGSTOKE Haymarket Theatre                     12 - 14 Feb 

70th ANNIVERSARY SEASON 

Tabs Productions and Rumpus Theatre Company join forces to present a series of seven plays to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Pomegranate Theatre as a civic theatre.
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE    22 - 26 Jan 2019
In a quaint Brooklyn house, two charming and innocent sisters perfect their homemade elderberry wine. Little do their gentleman callers suspect that they will soon be heading off to more exotic climes.
 A timeless and classic comedy thriller hit both on Broadway and in the West End.
BILLY LIAR    29 Jan - 2 Feb 2019
Billy Fisher is a nobody. He lives at home, has a dead-end job at the funeral parlour and three fiancées. But he’s going somewhere in his imagination. When his “lies” close in on him, how will he escape?
 Billy Liar is a hilarious and sometimes painfully truthful insight into 1960s northern family life.
THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE    5 - 9 Feb 2019
Sister George is a beloved character on a popular radio soap opera, a cheerful nurse who bicycles about the countryside singing hymns and doing good. In private life, June Buckridge, the actress who plays the character, is in a long-term relationship with Alice “Childie” McNaught. Due to low ratings, cut-backs and June's own bad behaviour, the BBC decides that Sister George is no longer for this world.
 A timeless examination of the public and private lives of celebrities.
HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES   12 - 16 Feb 2019
The classic farce.
Three couples, two dinner parties, one affair… Frank and Fiona are well-off, while Frank’s employee Bob and his wife Teresa are not, but Fiona is having an affair with Bob. When the two couples each invite another work colleague, William and his wife Mary, to dinner on consecutive evenings, we watch as the fun plays out simultaneously, with the hapless William and Mary caught hysterically between the warring twosomes.
AN EVENING WITH GARY LINEKER   26 Feb - 2 Mar 2019
​A comedy of two halves. 
It's July 4th, 1990. In Italy, England are playing Germany in the semi-final of the World Cup. In Majorca, Bill and Monica are on holiday, trying to save their ailing marriage. Add travel writer Dan, with whom Monica is having an affair, Dan's friend Ian and Ian's German travel rep friend Birgitta into the mix and, to the accompaniment on TV of Italy’s 90 minutes, extra time and the infamous penalty shoot-out, the battle in Majorca reaches its inevitable, uproarious climax.
ANYBODY FOR MURDER   5 - 9 Mar 2019
Max is planning to murder his wife Janet, collect her life insurance and enjoy life with his girlfriend when Mary and George arrive on their Greek island with news: Mary and Janet are beneficiaries of a huge fortune. Plans and plots hatch and soon everyone is bent on murder. All that stands in their way is the presence of a neighbour who knows a thing or two about murder: crime writer Edgar Chambers.
A thrilling comedy by the writers of the television series The Avengers.
DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER   12 - 16 Mar 2019
The hit West End farce
Jacqueline is going away for the weekend so husband Bernard invites his chic Parisian mistress to stay, as well as best friend Robert as an alibi. But Robert and Jacqueline are secretly lovers, so Jacqueline doesn't go away after all… and when the cook and her husband turn up, and Bernard and Robert improvise frantically to cover their tracks, the evening explodes in a comical riot of mistaken identities.