Thriller. 5m, 7f. 1950s. Two Victorian drawing rooms combined into one room. An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s Victorian house. The victim is not one of…
Category: 2019-2020-Season
The 2019-2020 Season will be quite different to previous seasons. A Festival of One-Act Plays will take place in the summer of 2020 to mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of Banbury Cross Players. This will give audiences the opportunity to see the work of several different drama groups. We hope you will come to more than one evening during the week since evey one will be different.
There will also be 3 full length plays performed at The Mill Arts Centre in November, February and May. The 3 plays chosen for the 2019-2020 Season will be announced at the Annual General Meeting in May 2019. The following plays have been considered by Members over recent months.
The Revlon Girl by Neil Anthony Docking
Play. 5f. 1960s. Room above a pub Set eight months following Aberfan Disaster of 1966 (in which 144 people were killed; 116 of them children), The Revlon Girl tells the real life story of a group of bereaved mothers who…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Simon Stephens
Play. 9m, 6f inc 1 teen – doubling possible. Multi-locations set “My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital cities. And every prime number up to 7507.” Christopher, fifteen years…
Jumpy by April de Angelis
Play. 4m, 5f. Present Day You’re having some kind of crisis. It’s called being fifty. Hilary once protested at Greenham. Now her protests tend to focus on persuading her teenage daughter to go out fully clothed. A frank and funny…
The Thrill of Love by Amanda Whittington
Drama. 4f, 1m. 1950s. Various interior/exterior settings (simple) A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. A divorcee with a young child to care for, she works in the kind of nightclubs where there’s…
The Woman who Cooked her Husband by Debbie Isitt
Comedy. 1m, 2f. Modern day. Flexible set Kenneth and Hilary have been married nearly twenty years, but as middle age approaches, Ken finds himself in the arms of another woman. At first, Laura appears to be everything that is missing…
Goodnight Mr Tom by David Wood
Play. 25 speaking parts (M7, F6). 1940s / WWII. Play with music. Roles for Children One of the most uplifting stories ever written brought to life in this stage adaptation. Set during the dark and dangerous build-up to the Second…
Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale
Comedy. 5-7f, 7m. Simple staging. London, 1660. King Charles II has exploded onto the scene with a love of all things loud, extravagant and sexy. And at Drury Lane, a young Nell Gwynn is causing stirrings amongst the theatregoers. Nell…
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