Second Audition
Tuesday 19th August 7:30pm at
The Barn Theatre
SEASON'S GREETINGS
by Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Stephen Alexander
Production dates: 2nd-6th December 2025
Alan Ayckbourn is the master of the dysfunctional family comedy, and what better ground for drama than a hectic Christmas Day? Unhappily married Neville and Belinda host their extended family for the festive season, but things do not go to plan. Arguments and drunken love affairs ensue, all while poor Uncle Bernard tries to keep the children entertained with his terrible annual puppet show. All in all, it's sure to be a Christmas the Bunker family will never forget.
OPEN AUDITIONS:
A second open audition will take place on Tuesday 19th August at 7:30pm at the Barn Theatre.
To register your interest, please email info@thebarntheatremolesey.co.uk.
Please see casting breakdown below and visit our Auditions Page for more casting details
Neville Bunker (30s-40s)
Belinda Bunker (née Hopkins), his wife (30s-40s)
Rachel Hopkins (30s-40s)
Clive Morris (30)
Dr Bernard Longstaff (40s-50s)
Phyllis Longstaff (née Bunker), his wife (30s-40s)
Eddie Grundy (30s-40s)
Pattie Grundy his wife (30s)
Harvey Bunker (50s-70s)
If you are interested in auditioning but cannot make the audition date of 19th August, do please still get in touch so that we can explore options
info@thebarntheatremolesey.co.uk.
What do you do when life serves you lemons?
Make lemonade? Or take drastic measures?
What lengths would you go to, to dig yourself out of trouble?
An unlikley group of people join forces to resolve their financial woes by pushing themslevers beyond their perceived capabilities, learning valuable life lessons along the way.
Upstage Surrey are delighted to bring this exciting new play by local write/director Claire Morrisey to the stage and to The Barn.
To book tickets
Our next production
The Barn Theatre Club presents
THE MEMORY OF WATER
by Shelagh Stephenson
Directed by David Lawson Lean
Wednesday 24th - Saturday 27th September
THE MEMORY OF WATER
by Shelagh Stephenson
Directed by David Lawson Lean
Three sisters, Teresa, Mary and Catherine, come together before their mother's funeral, each haunted by their own demons. This comical play focuses on how each sister deals with the death and how it directly affects them. The three each have different memories of the same events, causing constant bickering about whose memories are true.
The Memory of Water was awarded the Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 2000.
" A deeply felt, richly funny study of the pervasive power of the past." - Michael Billington, Guardian
“A play that leaves traces in your mind.” The Independent
“The play offers a superb mix of wild humour and bruising emotion.” The Daily Telegraph
Production dates: 24th - 27th September 2025
To book tickets
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/thebarntheatreclub
This is to commemorate 50 years since the death of R C Sherriff, Claire Evans in association with the R C Sherriff Trust will be presenting a professional production of R C Sherriff’s mystery drama Home at Seven. The show will visit the Barn Theatre, West Molesey on Monday 29 September 2025.
Tickets for this performance details of other venues are available via the Vera Fletcher Hall website
www.verafletcherhall.co.uk.
It sometimes happens that an innocent man needs more protection than a guilty one.
It’s one of those things that might happen to anybody.
This production is the first professional London revival of Home at Seven since the West End premiere in 1950, which starred Ralph Richardson. It is being presented by Claire Evans, in association with the R C Sherriff Trust, marking the 50th anniversary of the death of its writer R C Sherriff, best known for his World War I play, Journey’s End.
Home at Seven takes place five years after the end on the Second World War. The country is still recovering from years of bomb damage. Its people continue to endure rationing and are trying to restore normality after six years when everything had been turned on its head.
It’s the little lies, the white lies that catch us out. The lies we tell to defend and protect our innocence. We all break rules, we all tell inconsistent stories, but does this mean that we are more likely tobe guilty? David Preston is at the centre of this gripping mystery drama. An ordinary decent citizen, he is caught in a waking nightmare when he returns home from work to his wife to find that 24 hours have elapsed without him even realising it. It is now a day later than he thought. As hard as he tries, he cannot recall the events of the missing day or explain away evidence that implicates him in theft and murder. paragraph text.
TO BOOK TICKETS
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-vera-fletcher-hall-association/home-at-seven/e-ykrxmp