Upcoming Productions

Alison Neil presents Mrs Beeton, My Sister Thursday 27 Aug 2015 - Friday 28 Aug 2015 Performance Time: 19:30 Box Office: Alan/Ruth: 01275 462621 or Tim Lewis: 01275 790555 Tickets: £7.00 Alison Neil’s first one-woman play, BELLA - THE STORY OF MRS BEETON was hugely popular, and toured from 1988-2002. It was also adapted as a BBC Radio 4 Saturday Afternoon Play. Now, to mark the 150th Anniversary of Mrs Beeton’s death, award-winning playwright Alison Neil provides a lively, all-new retelling of this entertaining and moving story, using the latest research... Many years after Isabella Beeton’s untimely death, Bessie Mayson muses on the extraordinary life of her famous big sister. They were the eldest in a family of twenty-one children, brought up in the Grand Stand at Epsom Race Course. Quiet, obedient Isabella fell for a charming publisher called Sam Beeton, and joined his rackety life in journalism, culminating in her world-famous "Beeton’s Book of Household Management". Her family disapproved. But were they right? Thirty years on, Bessie is not so sure... Note: This is a one act play which will be followed by a Question and Answer session after the interval. WHAT THE CRITICS SAID ABOUT ALISON’S PREVIOUS ONE-WOMAN SHOWS: “Unmissable entertainment” “Spellbinding and hugely enjoyable” “Simply a masterpiece of theatre” “The quality of the writing and acting are second to none” “Just Brilliant”

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