Author: BCP-Media-Team

Aladdin 2025
Aladdin by Liz Riley Banbury Cross Players are delighted to be bringing their brand-new panto adventure, Aladdin, to The Mill Arts Centre in November 2025! Written by Liz Riley, get ready for laughs, magic, and mayhem in this unforgettable family panto adventure! Aladdin loves an adventure, but when his strange Uncle Abanazar turns up out…

Jack Absolute Flies Again
Jack Absolute Flies Again by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris, based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals is our spring show and runs from Thu 5th — Sat 7th March. Cast The Cast is as follows: Jack Absolute – Steve RamsdenLydia Languish – Lauren DavidsonRoy Faulkland – Rob HoareJulia Melville – Ashden WoodrowSir Anthony Absolute…

Goodbye Charles
The one-act play Goodbye Charles by Gabriel Benjamin Davis has been selected by Banbury Cross Players for 2025 summer season. It was performed at competitive festivals at Lighthorne, Abingdon and Wallingford in June and will be at our season preview in the autumn. Banbury Cross Players One Act Play Festival Entry 2025. The Cast was…

Puck by Hannah O’Donnell
PUCK Written and Directed by BCP member Hannah O’Donnell Puck as performed at The Mill Arts Centre 10-12 July 2025. Puck follows the familiar antics of our favourite fairies from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – with a modern twist that opens up the world of Shakespeare to new audiences! Twenty years after the…

Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime
Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime was presented by Banbury Cross Players at The Mill Arts Centre in March 2025. This amateur production of “Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. https://www.concordtheatricals.co.uk/ Newletters Behind the Scenes of Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime!…

Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Timberlake Wertenbaker’sOUR COUNTRY’S GOOD21 – 23 November 2024 DIRECTOR Chrissie GarrettProduction Manager Jane Shanahan Tickets are on sale now fromThe Mill Arts Centre Box Office This is a powerful multi-layered play about the novel The Playmaker – the story of those who performed the play The Recruiting Officer. It focusses on rehearsal of the play…
Auditions Inspector Drake
Banbury Cross Players announce Auditions for their March 2025 production of David Tristram’s “Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime” directed by Simon Hook. A note from Simon: “Although making my directing debut for BCP, my previous projects in film, TV and stage as a writer and director were almost exclusively comedic. I love comedy, hence…

Home, I’m Darling
Laura Wade’s HOME, I’M DARLING 11 – 13 July 2024. DIRECTOR: Lucy Byford, Production Manager: Linda Shaw About the Play The 1950s domestic bliss promises big but delivers short because, of course, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. It’s 2024; Stepford Wives meets Big Brother. Everyone is criticising Judy’s choices; no-one understands and…






