Archive 2025: Play reading

Our programme for this year

Fish out of Water by Derek Benfield

A comedy set in the Italian Riviera with all the ingredients of a package holiday

84, Charing Cross Road  by Helene Hanff

A change of genre, about an American writer corresponding with a British bookseller – you may remember the film!

Blythe Spirit by Noel Coward

A very familiar play, billed as an improbable farce

Our recent readings have included…

Carambas Revenge by William Norfolk

An ingenious black comedy which tells the story of a household of sweet elderly ladies who are anything but sweet

A Shred of Evidence by R.C. Sheriff

A cyclist is killed in a road accident – was Richard Medway driving home drunk responsible for his death?

A Letter from the General by Maurice McLoughlin

It is 1950 and revolution has swept a country and now reaches a Mission Station which cares for children