Alan Bennett's delightful adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s favourite children's story played to sell-out audiences at The National Theatre when it was first produced in 1990.
Considered by many as semi-autobiographical, Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing combines his trademark razor-sharp wit with some of the most touching and beautiful language ever written about the nature of love.
Twin boys – Mickey and Edward – are separated at birth, meet by chance as seven year olds, become firm friends despite their great class divide and ultimately fall in love with the same woman. Tragedy lurks as Mickey becomes increasingly jealous of Eddie and finally takes the law into his own hands.
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey are two disillusioned residents at a seedy retirement home in America. In an attempt to occupy the hours they strike up an acquaintance based on a few hands of Gin Rummy.
Kick off your Autumn in style with a visit to ‘Shakers’ - an oh-so-trendy cocktail bar where everyone wants to be seen. The Mission Theatre is transformed and Nicky, Adele, Carol and Mel - your long-suffering waitresses - invite you to pull up a table, order a drink and relax in their company.
The Marcia Blaine School for Girls is a shining educational beacon in 1930’s Edinburgh. Its teachers are pillars of respectability and their pupils are taught to the highest standards. Or so it appears.
The Marcia Blaine School for Girls is a shining educational beacon in 1930’s Edinburgh. Its teachers are pillars of respectability and their pupils are taught to the highest standards. Or so it appears.
Rattigan is a masterly storyteller and never more so than in this acclaimed piece. Next Stage is delighted to be making its first foray into Rattigan’s work with this irresistible Supper Theatre starring leading actors Kay Francksen, Jane Lawson and Tim Evans.
Psychoanalyst Dr Prentice is having a bad day. His attempted seduction of a new secretary is being thwarted by his wife, who in turn is being blackmailed by an upwardly-mobile hotel page. To cap it off there’s a government inspector at loose in the asylum and a police sergeant is hunting for parts of a statue of Sir Winston Churchill.
It should have been an idyllic holiday: a luxury Greek island villa, hot sun, unlimited wine, beach side tavernas and the blue Adriatic Sea lapping on the shore. But for Jack and Elizabeth Barker, their American host Senior Executive Eddie Vosper is an irritating reminder of a recent company buy-out which has resulted in Jack assuming a subordinate position in the Barker family firm.
Next Stage Theatre Company invites you to The Visit, in which Duerrenmatt draws us into Guellen, a small town somewhere in Europe.
In song and dance with many a fright
Nadia Naïve will delight each night
As she, her class, and many more
Fight Dracula, ghouls and fiends galore!
Performed in-the-round, Honour concludes Next Stage’s themed Autumn trilogy of plays by exploring love, desire and loss in one’s mature years.
Next Stage actors bring their inimitable style and flair to the witty and incisive language of Happy Now? whilst the in-the-round staging creates the perfect intimate arena in which the play’s fast-paced action can unfold.
More than 50 books. Less than 90 minutes.
Join three of Next Stage's most intrepid actors as they attempt to bring to the stage the greatest novels from Western Literature.
Commencing Next Stage’s themed Autumn trilogy of modern drama, The Things Good Men Do is a thought-provoking play exploring the doubts and dilemmas which can afflict both men and women in their late 20s.
It's 1927 and Daisy Meredith, a poor but bright child, has won a scholarship to Grangewood School for Girls. It's a dream come true for an elementary school pupil, but can it live up to her expectations?
Philip Ridley has written a brilliantly creative play that speaks to all young people today. Specially commissioned for The National Theatre in 1997, Sparkleshark is a powerful play in which the cut and thrust of teenage moods and conflicts is captured in vivid and compelling dialogue
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.
A trilogy of one-act plays on aspects of love. Whilst enjoying a delicious meal in the intimate atmosphere of The Theatre Upstairs, the cream of Next Stage invite you to reflect on these contrasting plays and the relationships they explore.
Written in the 1980s, Speed-the-Plow is a brilliantly funny satire on the Hollywood of its day - but its ruthless exposure of ambition, envy and greed will be just as familiar now as they were then.
In the grim aftermath of the Second World War, the victors determine the guilt or innocence of leading German citizens.
The highlight of the year for Jack, a Yorkshire miner, played by Dave Dunn, and his wife Liz, played by Lesley Langley, is a week in Blackpool taken in the climatically dodgy month of September.
To celebrate The Mission Theatre's 5th birthday, Next Stage are proud to present this stunning black comedy by patron Alan Ayckbourn.
