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 […]
Our man in Havana – 2014
This was a sell-out production. Jim Wormold, an under-employed vacuum cleaner salesman living in 1950s Cuba, is struggling to pay for his teenage daughter’s increasingly extravagant lifestyle. So when the British Secret Service asks him to become their ‘man in Havana’ he can’t afford to say no. There’s just one problem . . . he […]
Yes, Prime Minister – Spring 2014
The Gage Players put on a successful production of Yes, Prime Minister by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn in the spring of 2014. A brief synopsis follows, as well as some photos. As the play opens, in the Prime Minister’s study at Chequers, Humphrey and Bernard are scheming. It’s been a rough day for P. […]
Semi-Detached – November 2013
In November 2013, the Gage Players put on a successful production of this comedy by David Turner, directed by Gill Lucas. The play itself concerns Fred Midway, a pillar of society and a model citizen. One Sunday his house is threatened with disaster when the love-lives of his three children come to an unfortunate and […]