News & Events 2025
LAST TANGO IN WHITBY by MIKE HARDING
A group of life long friends spend a week together at the Royal Hotel every year. Now in their sixties, couples, Joan and Jimmy, Henry and Maureen, simple-minded Jessie, outspoken Kathleen and Pat, a key member of the group who has recently lost her much loved husband, set off in high spirits for their trip to Whitby. Despite her loss, Pat is determined not to feel sorry for herself but keep enjoying life as her late husband would have wished. This year there is a new couple leading the entertainment programme The Shangri-Las, Phil and Edna. How will the week turn out for all concerned? There will be dancing, sightseeing, bingo, fancy dress and talent contests, in fact everything needed for their usual happy holiday. But as things turn out this year will be a little a different and change is in the air for everyone. With lots of dancing, music and jollity, plenty of belly laughs, occasional tear eye moments and a few home truths, Last Tango in Whitby is an
entertaining evening to savour
DIRECTOR: GILL LAMBOURN
CAST
PAT JENNY DEAN
JIMMY PAUL PRIDMORE
JOAN YVETTE WALTERS
HENRY TONY CLARK
MAUREEN LIN SEARY
KATHLEEN PAT THOMPSETT
JESSIE BARBARA MaCWHIRTER
PHIL CHRIS SMITH
EDNA DEBORAH ADDICOTT
CLARE LISA PAGE-BERELIAN
DEBBIE HELGA CROWLEY
COACH DRIVER JAMIE POTTS
SALLY LISA PAGE-BERELIAN
JOHN JAMIE POTTS
MRS MINGHAM DEBBIE MARTIN
JET SHOP MAN, TEA SHOP WAITRESSES, GINO, HONEYMOONERS , the Ensemble
Friday 17th January
PLAYREADING
Summer of the 17th Doll
by Ray Lawler
This compelling Australian play was a success in London and was hailed by critics in New York for its vigor, integrity, and realistic portrayal of two itinerant cane cutters: Barney, a swaggering little scrapper, and Roo, a big roughneck. They have spent the past sixteen summers off with two ladies in a Southern Australian city. Every year Roo has brought a tinsel doll to Olive, his girl, as a gift to symbolize their relationship, but this seventeenth summer is different somehow. Old patterns must be broken, new ways found, as all four lovers come to face certain unpleasant truths about themselves. This unusual, compelling love story was made into a film entitled Season of Passion and starred Academy Award-winners Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter, John Mills and Angela Lansbury.
Friday 14th March
THE PERFECT MURDER by Hugh Janes
Summary
Adapted from a story by Jeffrey Archer. Carla Moorland has been murdered, and accountant John Hoskins, who has been having an affair with her, is certain he knows who did it - himself. John's wife Elizabeth, rather than calling the police, is determined to keep John out of prison, even if it means that an innocent man will be punished for the crime...