Current Productions

Arms and the Man

(or The Chocolate Cream Soldier)

by George Bernard Shaw

an exciting open air production at Shaw's Corner,
the country home of George Bernard Shaw which he bequeathed to the National Trust.

Fri 25th & Sat 26th July @ 6.30pm

Click here for details and to book

Rumpus Theatre Company presents

The Ripper Files!

Inspector Lestrange is up to his neck in evidence ...

... but there’s one fact only the Ripper himself will know ...

CHARLES WILLIAM LESTRANGE was a newly promoted Detective Inspector in the Metropolitan Police, just transferred to H Division in Whitechapel, when the THE AUTUMN OF TERROR, as it came to be known, reached its grizzly height.

Now, thirteen years later, and ably assisted by SAMUEL EDWARDS, formerly Detective Constable Edwards of H Division, and Samuel Edward’s “close friend” Miss ELSIE FORDHAM, rising star of the music hall stage, Lestrange rehearses again for your titillation and delight the ghoulish events in Victorian Whitechapel which have been a source of universal fascination since the 1880’s ...

Tour Schedule (more dates to follow)

2025	(click on venue for their website)
Sun 16 Feb	Rotherham Civic Theatre
Wed 19 & Thur 20 Feb	Swansea Grand Theatre
Thur 27 Feb - Sat 1 March	Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke
Tues 11 March	Quay Theatre Sudbury
Thur 20 - Sat 22 March	Theatre Royal Windsor
Tues 25 & Wed 26 March	Grove Theatre Dunstable
Fri 28 March	Middlesbrough Theatre
Tues 1 - Thur 3 April	Devonshire Park Theatre Eastbourne
Wed 23 April	Theatre Royal Wakefield
Thur 24 & Fri 25 April	New Theatre Royal Lincoln
Tues 9 - Thur 11 Sept	Gordon Craig Theatre Stevenage
Tues 16 Sept	Stafford Gatehouse Met Studio
Wed 17 Sept	Brindley Theatre Runcorn
Thur 18 Sept	Theatr Hafren
Sat 18 Oct	Sarah Thorne Theatre Broadstairs
Sun 19 Oct	Trinity Theatre Tunbridge Wells
Mon 20 - Wed 22 Oct	Theatre Royal Winchester
Fri 24 & Sat 25 Oct	Old Town Hall Arts Hemel Hempstead
Mon 27 Oct	Civic Theatre Chelmsford
Wed 29 & Thur 30 Oct	Forum Theatre Billingham
Sat 1 Nov	Guildhall Arts Centre Grantham

 

 

“a rumbustious and highly enjoyable production, which has the audience chuckling, oohing, and literally gasping at the end, with the final clever twist of the knife ... a darkly comic little masterpiece ... highly recommended" (Migrant Press)

“An unexpectedly chilling climax finished off a fine piece of theatre” (TheLatest.co.uk)

 

Rumpus Theatre Company presents

The devilishly funny farce

The Comedy of Terrors!

by John Goodrum

When Jo Smith arrives for an audition with director Vyvian Jones, it turns out she’s
actually been invited to the theatre by Vyvian's twin brother Beverley, who wants
her to impersonate her own twin sister Fiona, to persuade Vyvian that Beverley
hasn’t had a fling with Fiona ... he has, but doesn't want Vyvian to tell his fiancee
Cheryl! And when the real Fiona turns up, not to mention Vyvian (a member of the
local Sons of Satan Association, who wants to use Jo for his first human sacrifice)
and Beverley and Vyvian’s identical triplet policeman brother, the stage is well and
truly set for a fast-moving madcap comedy of multiple mistaken identity.

Tour Schedule (more dates to follow)

“a farcical and hilarious couple of hours ... fabulous!” (Bracknell News)

“If you haven’t seen it, do. If you have, see it again; it’s just as funny and ingenious
the second time around. I was worn out with laughing by the end ...
written under the influence of happy juice!” (Derbyshire Times)