Partington Theatre Season

By Peter Denver
Directed By Chris Sturmey

Matineess at 2.30pm
Perfomances begin at 7.30pm

A classic panto from the pen of Peter Denyer. The Sheriff of Nottingham’s rich brother has left for the Crusades, leaving his children Janet and John in the care of the evil Sheriff who abandons them in the forest. Enter Robin Hood to the rescue with all the Sherwood Forest regulars. Add in Robin’s penchant for instant wealth redistribution, the Spirit of the Greenwood, Nurse Norah and Herman the Henchman and you have all the ingredients for fabulous fun-filled entertainment.

Performances begin at 7.30pm

In 1894 Vivie Warren, a self-confident young woman, graduates from Cambridge with outstanding brilliance. The world is at her feet. Suitors or careers could claim her future. But one idyllic summer evening her mother reappears, in the company of the sinister Sir George Crofts. Vivie is impelled to investigate her own good fortune and the exact nature of ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession’. Banned from public performance for many years this drama is a landmark of the English theatre.

By Martin Stargie and Neville Coghill
Directed by Carole Wilson

Performances begin at 7.30pm

Lively and colourful, bawdy and rumbustious, this delightful Martin Starkie and Neville Coghill musical version wittily blends five tales from Chaucer’s  marvellous epic to serve up an appetizing dish certain to satisfy all tastes.

By Ariel Dorfman
Directed by Peter Wright

Performances begin at 7.30pm

Fifteen years ago Paulina, a citizen of a fragile South American democracy, was picked up by the police, blindfolded and interrogated with savage and humiliating ferocity. Tonight her husband has come home in the company of a man she is convinced was her torturer. Now the three are trapped in the gripping passionate deadlock   of this stunning political thriller.