Category: Previous Shows
A Handbag
Our one-act play for 2026 A Handbag by Anthony Horowitz was directed by Chrissie Garrett. Performances were given at Adderbury, Lighthorne, Abingdon, Wallingford, the NDFA National Finals in Bromsgrove and finally at The Mill Arts Centre in Banbury. The Play A group of people are rehearsing The Importance of Being Earnest but, as they attempt to perform a…
Underdog: The Other Other Brontë
Underdog: The Other Other Brontë by Sarah Gordon was performed at The Mill Arts Centre, 18 – 20 June 2026. The Cast was as follows Charlotte – Vivienne GarnettEmily – Hannah RamsdenAnne – Sophie Raval Ensemble Kate GrovesRichard OliverFraser McMinnJem Turner The Play An irreverent retelling of the life and legend of the Brontë sisters, and the sibling…
Jack Absolute Flies Again
Jack Absolute Flies Again by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris, based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals was performed by Banbury Cross Players at The Mill Arts Centre from Thu 5th — Sat 7th March. Cast The Cast was as follows: Jack Absolute – Steve RamsdenLydia Languish – Lauren DavidsonRoy Faulkland – Rob HoareJulia Melville…
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 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 among convicts and officers in a Botany Bay penal colony in…
Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Timberlake Wertenbaker’sOUR COUNTRY’S GOOD21 – 23 November 2024 DIRECTOR Chrissie GarrettProduction Manager Jane Shanahan 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 among convicts and officers in a Botany Bay penal colony in…
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…