This’s production marks the fourth collaboration between Next Stage and Encore at The Mission Theatre. The particular blend of music and drama produced by both talented companies has proved extremely popular.
Tennessee William's masterpiece set in New Orleans is powerful and iconic look at love, lust and loneliness. The fragile Blanche,comes to stay with her sister Stella and husband Stanley. Amazed at their frugal life-style, and Stella's dependence on her chauvinistic husband, Blanche is seemingly unaware of the unsettling affect her presence has upon the couple.
A hilarious and insightful exploration of what life can be like for a 40-something, suddenly single woman. Angela's husband has a mid-life crisis and a mid-European fling, Angela is left with the dog.
Kate Atkinson (winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 1995) is well known as one of Britain’s leading novelists. In this, her only full-length play, she continues to examine the collision of the past and the present and the changing place of women.
Miss Shepherd and her van moved into Alan Bennett's North London garden for 3 months. She stopped for 15 years!
Mayhem and mirth as teachers and pupils alike embark on an unexpected journey of discovery.
Russell’s witty, insightful play is inventively staged and imaginatively acted by award-winning Next Stage.
John Matthews is Salieri, Ben Kettner is Mozart, with a supporting cast drawn from the award-winning Next Stage Theatre Company and using costumes from the West End production. Innovatively staged in Bath’s acclaimed Mission Theatre this will be a celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth that no one should miss.
Cartwright's play is an essay in the dynamics of relationship cunningly disguised as a play, and his characters cover the gamut of emotions.
Next Stage is delighted to present Stanley, Pam Gems’ brilliant depiction of the unconventional life of artist Stanley Spencer.
One morning in the 'Roaring Twenties' New York reporter Don Marquis beheld an extraordinary cockroach named Archy diving head first onto the keys of his typewriter, slowly and painfully creating delightful poems and stories.
One sunny evening 10 year old Rhona goes missing. Her mother, Nancy, retreats into a state of frozen hope.
Adrian Mole: adolescent schoolboy, thwarted intellectual, would-be lover, is constantly bewildered by the trials and tribulations of teenage life. His parents are divorcing, his mother’s having an affair with the next door neighbour, his acne is spreading and even the dog is rebelling - Adrian’s life is in tatters and he’s only 13 ¾.
ome with us to a “land in a forgotten past or the undreamt future”. Meet the Sultan, Vizier, Princes and Princesses who inhabit this exotic world - not to mention a dysfunctional robot!
Be swept away by a tale of unrequited love and daring deeds - but don’t forget that this is Ayckbourn and the twenty first century so there are bound to be twists and a modern spin to this Arabian Nights’ tale.
This 'riveting' production, an intriguing take on the 'play about a play', follows a schoolgirl in her attempts to break into the inner circle of performers in her school's annual stage production. To succeed, she will have to outface and outperform her peer group who have bullied her throughout her school days.
Shirley Valentine is the story of a 40-something housewife (Kay Francksen) trapped in a routine existence, dreaming of escape to distant shores.
High up on a tower block roof, Jake writes stories in secret. The other boys, led by the egotistical and muscular Russell, think he’s a wimp. To the girls, Jake’s almost one of them. When the gang actually confronts Jake, everyone’s in for a great surprise. Jake has to get out of trouble…and his answer is to weave his best story yet.
Lettice Douffet has inherited from her family’s theatrical past both thespian flair and eccentricity. Bored with her job as guide in a second class stately home she seeks to enliven the daily grind with ever more colourful and implausible fantasies.
Dealing with Clair is set at a time when property prices are spiraling ever upwards and makes a significant comment on life in a society in which cash values are paramount. Liz and Mike want to sell their property at a good profit but keep their principles intact.
Mr. Dodsworth has recently retired from the company that he built up over 30 years. Sitting at home he is contemplating his life and achievements with quiet satisfaction when there is a sharp ring at the door: his former secretary has come to ruin it all!
Britain’s most prolific and successful living playwright brings his trademarks - witty dialogue, poignant insights and hilarious twists - to the story of Adam and his love for robotic ‘actoid’, J C Triplethree.
The Blue Room is based on Reigen (“round dance”), a series of vignettes written by Dr. Arthur Schnitzler in 1896. Reigen, German for ‘‘round dance,’’ was set in Schnitzler’s own fin de siècle Vienna and depicted a number of characters in a continuous chain of sexual liaisons, suggesting that the meaningless physical relationships they shared, as well as venereal diseases they picked up along the way, were passed along in a mechanical, dehumanising chain.
Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade is a play within a play. It is gory and violent and visually shocking while presenting a complex and challenging set of ideas.
Frank (Luke Hardy), a disillusioned, middle-aged lecturer, is shaken from his academic routine when Rita (Caroline Groom), a 26 year old hairdresser, enrols on his Open University English course. Russell's scintillating dialogue and comic touch make this show a delight for everyone.
In his cleverly crafted play, Peter Nichols invites his audience to consider different aspects and faces of passion and the way people interpret them.
Dream Trilogy skilfully combines the best of Next Stage’s Youth and adult work to provide a hilarious evening’s entertainment.
Mother Courage and her children travel through the war zone, first in Scandinavia during the war between Poland and Denmark, and then throughout what is now Germany in the Thirty Years War.
