Category: Previous Shows
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…
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…
Spider’s Web by Agatha Christie
Spider’s Web by Agatha Christie was be performed at The Mill Arts Centre, 18th to 21st May 2022. Cast The Cast was as follows: Sir Rowland Delahaye – Adrian McGlynnHugo Birch – Roger RileyJeremy Warrender – Steve RamsdenClarissa Hailsham-Brown – Katy RobertsPippa Hailsham-Brown – Imogen TredwellMildred Peake – Janice LakeElgin – Jeremy TurnerOliver Costello –…
Out of Order
Out of Order by Ray Cooney was performed at The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury from 16th to 19th February 2022. The Cast was as follows: Richard Willey – Simon HookThe Waiter – Philip FineJane Worthington – Katy RobertsGeorge Pigden – Justin ClinchPamela Willey – Deborah WatsonThe Manager – Heward SimpsonThe Maid – Marilyn FairbairnA Body…
The Woman who Cooked her Husband
The Woman who Cooked her Husband by Debbie Isitt was performed at The Mill Arts Centre, 24th to 27th November 2021. The Woman who Cooked her Husband was directed by Chrissie Garrett. Chrissie directed The Crucible in 2016, The Cripple of Inishmaan in 2018 and our recent award winning Festival Play Contractions. Cast Hilary –…
Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale
Banbury Cross Players performed Nell Gwyn by Jessica Swale at The Mill Arts Centre from 12th to 15th February 2020.