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Funny Money by Ray Cooney September 29 to October 6, 2007 (No Monday Performance) Jean is preparing a birthday dinner for her mild-mannered accountant husband Henry. Good friends Betty and Vic are expected any minute and Jean is frantic because Henry is late. When he eventually arrives Jean finds him not quite the man he used to be. He wants to emigrate to Barcelona immediately, and with good reason, the briefcase he accidentally picked up on the Underground is stuffed with fifty pound notes amounting to £735,000. But if getting the money was easy, keeping it proves harder, as not one but two police inspectors call and Henry, Vic, Betty and a bemused (and tipsy) Jean are forced into a frantic game of cat and mouse. Hilarious innuendo and cruelly funny turns of fate ensue as the two couples assume all sorts of identities in their battle to keep the money. Will they succeed? The cabby, cheeky Bill, has the answer.

My Three Angels by Sam & Bella Spewack November 17 - 24, 2007 (No Monday Performance)   It is Christmas Eve in the late 1800s in the tropical prison colony of Cayenne. Feloix Dulay, a hopeless storekeeper, is fearfully awaiting the owner, Gaston. Providence has given the Dulays Three guardian angels – three convicts! In no time they have cooked Christmas lunch – and Felix’s books – and will loose their own executioner on Gaston for his cruel behaviour!

The Railway Children by E Nesbitt (adapted by Dave Simpson) December 12 - 15, 2007 (Saturday matinee at 2pm)   The plight of the Railway Children grapping to come to terms with their new environment is imaginatively brought to life for a modern audience while losing nothing of the original spirit of humour, tension, adventure and the final triumph of good over evil.

Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon February 2 -9, 2008 (No Monday performance) Barney, who has been married to an irreproachable wife for twenty-three years, feels the urge to join the sexual revolution before it is too late. Taking advantage of the fact that his mother’s flat is unoccupied two days a week he invites three women to his lair in succession. With no experience of adultery he fails on each occasion. As the play ends he is telephoning his wife – to meet him that afternoon in his mother’s apartment.

Drowning on Dry Land by Alan Ayckbourn April 5 - 12, 2008 (No Monday Performance) Charlie Conrad is a celebrity. His talent? He hasn’t got one, the nation took him to their hearts for very publicly being unable to do anything competently. On a fateful day Charlie has an encounter with Marsha, a children’s entertainer otherwise known as Mr. Chortles, and his marriage and his career go into freefall. Drowning on Dry Land examines the current obsession with celebrity for its own sake and chillingly but hilariously demonstrates how celebrities can be destroyed as quickly as they can be made.

Private Lives by Noel Coward May 31 - June 7, 2008 (No Monday Performance) Sybil and Elyot arrive at a hotel in France for their honeymoon. Amanda, Elyot’s first wife, happens to take the adjoining suite with her new husband Victor. When Amanda and Elyot meet they elope but together they veer between happiness and bickering, which turns into physical fighting. Victor and Sybil discover them rolling on the floor and a four-handed quarrel begins during which Elyot and Amanda steal away.