Category: Previous Shows
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…
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…
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…
The Proposal by Anton Chekhov
THE PROPOSAL by Anton Chekhov One Act Festival Entry May & June 2024. DIRECTOR: Suchit Kulkarni, Production Manager: Adrian McGlynn. Lomov comes to propose to his neighbour’s daughter, Natalya. The only trouble is, they are both supremely argumentative… This one act farce was first performed in 1890 but still feels very contemporary today. Through the…
Cinderella by Justin Clinch
Cinderella was Banbury Cross Players’ November 2023 production. It used a script written for a modern family audience written by our own member Justin Clinch. Directed by Liz Riley, performances followed a new for this season timetable of Thursday to Saturday evenings and a Saturday matinee. The Cast was as Follows: Prince Charming – Steve…
Things I Know to be True
Was performed at The Mill Arts Centre 12 – 15 July 2023. Originally produced in conjunction with Frantic Assembly, at it’s heart, Things I Know to be True is a poignant, well -written family drama with powerful characters, and a journey with an unexpected conclusion. The story of a marriage and a family is told…
Getting Dark by Joe Graham
Getting Dark is an award -winning dramatisation of the true story of The Ribbon of Truth by Kal Gibson. The play is a moving and dark exploration of a young girl’s descent into blindness. For six -year old Karen, the world is gradually shrinking and getting dark. Colours that meant so much to her are…