Saturday 22nd January 2022
Jazz Concert All tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio with Steve Waterman on Trumpet
Jazz Concert All tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio with Steve Waterman on Trumpet
- Ken McCarthy Piano
- Andy Crowdy Double Base
- Martin Hart Drums
22nd to 26th February 2022
'Things We Do for Love' tickets £12/£10
by Alan Ayckbourn
directed by Steve Atkins
Regarded by critics as being one of Ayckbourn’s finest plays, ‘Things We Do For Love’ is a painfully funny, technically ingenious and very physical (in all senses) play with many screamingly funny moments. Premiered in 1997, ‘Things’ hit the West End in’98, with a national tour in 2014.
The action is set in a Victorian house in Fulham owned by Barbara, with her ground floor living room occupying most of the stage.
We also see a bit of the basement flat underneath, inhabited by Gilbert the postman, and the floor of the flat upstairs which Barbara is letting to her old school-friend Nikki, newly engaged to Hamish. Barbara and Hamish’s initial loathing of each other soon swings 180 degrees, and the fall-out from this fuels a hilarious second act as they are overcome with guilt and their old animosity flares up again. Ayckbourn in his prime is able to wring so much laughter from so much pain.
'Things We Do for Love' tickets £12/£10
by Alan Ayckbourn
directed by Steve Atkins
Regarded by critics as being one of Ayckbourn’s finest plays, ‘Things We Do For Love’ is a painfully funny, technically ingenious and very physical (in all senses) play with many screamingly funny moments. Premiered in 1997, ‘Things’ hit the West End in’98, with a national tour in 2014.
The action is set in a Victorian house in Fulham owned by Barbara, with her ground floor living room occupying most of the stage.
We also see a bit of the basement flat underneath, inhabited by Gilbert the postman, and the floor of the flat upstairs which Barbara is letting to her old school-friend Nikki, newly engaged to Hamish. Barbara and Hamish’s initial loathing of each other soon swings 180 degrees, and the fall-out from this fuels a hilarious second act as they are overcome with guilt and their old animosity flares up again. Ayckbourn in his prime is able to wring so much laughter from so much pain.
Saturday 28th May 2022
Jazz Concert all tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio
Jazz Concert all tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio
- Ken McCarthy Piano
- Nick Pugh Double Base
- Martin Hart Drums
12th - 16th July 2022 production to be anounced
27th September to 1st October 2022
'Teechers' tickets £12/£10
By John Godber
directed by Jane Harris
In the 1980s, Hull Truck Theatre became a global success story, and ‘Teechers’, written by its Artistic Director John Godber , was one of the plays that made it so. ‘Teechers’ had a revival and tour in 2010 as Godber left Hull Truck after 26 years. John Godber’s ‘Teechers’ is GCSE material.
It is a play within a play in which three students put on a performance to their teachers, acting out their time in secondary school – particularly their time with Mr Jeff Nixon, who has ignited their love for drama and the belief that all children should be treated equally. Fast-moving, inventive and highly entertaining, Teechers brings to life an array of terrifying teachers and hopeless pupils through the unique eyes of Salty, Gail and Hobby; three senior students about to leave school for good, and uses contemporary chart music for relevance.
Towards the end of the play the three kids learn that Mr. Nixon may be leaving to teach at a ‘superior’ school, and they start to understand how much he has helped them.
'Teechers' tickets £12/£10
By John Godber
directed by Jane Harris
In the 1980s, Hull Truck Theatre became a global success story, and ‘Teechers’, written by its Artistic Director John Godber , was one of the plays that made it so. ‘Teechers’ had a revival and tour in 2010 as Godber left Hull Truck after 26 years. John Godber’s ‘Teechers’ is GCSE material.
It is a play within a play in which three students put on a performance to their teachers, acting out their time in secondary school – particularly their time with Mr Jeff Nixon, who has ignited their love for drama and the belief that all children should be treated equally. Fast-moving, inventive and highly entertaining, Teechers brings to life an array of terrifying teachers and hopeless pupils through the unique eyes of Salty, Gail and Hobby; three senior students about to leave school for good, and uses contemporary chart music for relevance.
Towards the end of the play the three kids learn that Mr. Nixon may be leaving to teach at a ‘superior’ school, and they start to understand how much he has helped them.
Saturday 15th October 2022
Jazz Concert All tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio
Jazz Concert All tickets £12
featuring The Martin Hart Trio
- Ken McCarthy Piano
- Nick Pugh Double Base
- Martin Hart Drums
29th Nov to 3rd December 2022
'Yerma' tickets £12/£10
The classic by Federico Garcia Lorca
directed by Frank Kaye
“Drama is poetry that gets up from the written page and takes on human form.” The final play in Woodley’s 2022 season is ‘Yerma’ by Federico Garcia Lorca and is a brilliant example of Lorca’s philosophy, which Frank first staged in a radically reduced form at Royal Holloway as part of his drama course.
We now have the opportunity to stage in full this amazing statement of woman’s desire to have a baby. The key difference is the inclusion of Yerma’s husband, whose willing acceptance of Yerma’s infertility drives her to distraction. Her very name means “barren” in Spanish and we are taken on a glorious ride through the emotions and opinions of her society in this musically and poetically framed piece. . The play will be performed with the two key protagonists, Yerma and her husband, Juan, along with an array of villagers who will double many of the parts to result in a cast of maybe six or seven.
Out in the fields
for our baby we’ll make
a little log cabin
to keep us all safe.
So begins this incredible piece of drama with a musical, poetic form that is maintained throughout The dramatic genius that is Lorca was cut short by a Franco firing squad in 1936, but though we lost the man we did not lose his work.
'Yerma' tickets £12/£10
The classic by Federico Garcia Lorca
directed by Frank Kaye
“Drama is poetry that gets up from the written page and takes on human form.” The final play in Woodley’s 2022 season is ‘Yerma’ by Federico Garcia Lorca and is a brilliant example of Lorca’s philosophy, which Frank first staged in a radically reduced form at Royal Holloway as part of his drama course.
We now have the opportunity to stage in full this amazing statement of woman’s desire to have a baby. The key difference is the inclusion of Yerma’s husband, whose willing acceptance of Yerma’s infertility drives her to distraction. Her very name means “barren” in Spanish and we are taken on a glorious ride through the emotions and opinions of her society in this musically and poetically framed piece. . The play will be performed with the two key protagonists, Yerma and her husband, Juan, along with an array of villagers who will double many of the parts to result in a cast of maybe six or seven.
Out in the fields
for our baby we’ll make
a little log cabin
to keep us all safe.
So begins this incredible piece of drama with a musical, poetic form that is maintained throughout The dramatic genius that is Lorca was cut short by a Franco firing squad in 1936, but though we lost the man we did not lose his work.