The Nightingales – April 2024
A comedy in 2 acts by Peter Quilter It is the 1950s and this charming comedy introduces the Nightingales, members of a theatrical family who perform more at home than they do on the stage. Jack is a cabaret star, as in love with his piano as he is with his silk dressing gowns. His […]
Molly’s Calling – November 2023
Finally, after being cancelled twice, this fantastic play, written and directed by our very own Pip Rolls was performed at 8pm on 23rd, 24th and 25th November at The Riddell Hall, Deans Lane, Walton-on-the-Hill, KT20 7UL THE PLAY Molly’s Calling is a comedy about a bunch of oddities who take on the world and knock […]
Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders – April 2023
The Gage Players presented, in association with Stagescripts, Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders by Derek Webb. Agatha Crusty (pronounced Croosty) is a crime novelist. She’s also pretty adept at solving crimes. And when her sister-in-law Alice invites her to spend a few days with her in the village of Chortelby, it’s not long […]
A Christmas Carol – December 2022
In December 2022 The Gage Players presented a rehearsed reading of Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol”, adapted and directed by Pip Rolls. A very pleasant evening was had by all, audience, cast and backstage crew alike.
Good Things – Winter 2019 Production
Our play was Good Things by Liz Lochhead. Set in a charity shop on three different days in one year – Twelfth Night in January, Valentine’s Day in February and Christmas Eve in December – Good Things is a poignant and funny play with a lot to say about finding love later in life. Performance dates […]
Curtain Up On Murder – May 2019
Our spring 2019 play was Curtain up on Murder by Bettine Manktelow An amateur drama group is rehearsing in a theatre at the end of a pier. A storm is building up and any thought of leaving the theatre is baulked by finding that somehow all the exit doors are locked from the outside. A ghostly presence […]
Ladies Who Lunch – Nov/Dec 2018
Our November 2018 offering was Ladies Who Lunch by Tudor Gates on 29th and 30th November, and the 1st December.
Vintage Hitchcock – A Live Radio Play – 2018
26th, 27th and 28th April, 2018 PLUS an extra date at the Banstead Arts Festival on 2nd May, 2018 directed by Lars SawyerAn amateur production in association with Playscripts, Inc. In a triple bill of one-act plays, three early films by Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, are brought to life on stage with live […]
Bedroom Farce – 2016
Four into three won’t go; except, in Ayckbourn’s 1977 play, it miraculously does. A pair of roving neurotics hawk their problems around the bedrooms of three other couples; and what emerges is Ayckbourn’s hilariously bleak view of middle-class marriage. “Alone together, so much shared” as Beckett once wrote. Congratulations to all those involved in the production […]
Murder In Play by Simon Brett – April 2015
The first production of the Gage’s 65th year was a resounding success. Congratulations to the cast, crew and Leslie Parker’s excellent directorship. Boris Smolensky’s budget repertory production of Murder at Priorswell Manor is looking decidedly shaky, being mostly held together by long-suffering stage manager Pat. The cast, and the director, are more interested in their […]