Category: Previous Shows
Puck by Hannah O’Donnell
PUCK Written and Directed by BCP member Hannah O’Donnell 10-12 July 2025 Tickets are now available from The Mill Box Office 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…
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…
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Performed at The Mill Arts Centre 15 – 18 March 2023. The oldest love story in the world stripped back in an emotionally raw version. Modern and other – worldly this show seeks to dispel the negative “overdone”, “men in tights” rumours about the play. Romeo & Juliet: The Cast Auditions took place 20 and…
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase from a children’s novel by Joan Aiken was performed at The Mill Arts Centre from 23-26 November 2022. Two brave and determined girls – Bonnie and Sylvia – fight against ferocious wolves, snowy wastelands and evil guardian, Miss Slighcarp. With their friend, Simon the goose boy, they are caught up…