One of the early plays from the master of New York comedy comes Barefoot in the Park. Corie and Paul Bratter are setting up house in a minuscule fifth-floor walkup apartment in a mid-Manhattan brownstone. Paul is a strait-laced attorney, Corie a far more spontaneous free spirit. The two must contend with a lack of heat, a skylight with a gaping hole, several long flights of stairs, oddball neighbour Victor Velasco, and Corie's well-meaning mother, in addition to adjusting to married life. Book early for what will undoubtedly be a popular start to our season.

Booking Opens 13 August

The Price

by Arthur Miller

20-25 & 27 October 2007

Another American Classic. Arthur Miller was the foremost US playwright of his generation and The Price is one of his most powerful plays. Following on from our huge success with All My Sons a couple of years ago we now present you with The Price. Two brothers meet for the first time in years as they sell off their late father’s possessions. A play about family feuds, lost youth, regret, recrimination and misunderstanding. There won’t be anyone in the audience who cannot relate to the situations and take sides – and then perhaps change them!

Booking Opens 15 September

Merlin the Magnificent

by Stuart Paterson

8-15 December 2007

Writer Stuart Paterson is Scottish theatre's Mr Christmas, with more top-notch adaptations of popular tales to his name than you could shake Excalibur at! Myth, magic and mystery combine in this colourful and mischievous version of the legend of the sword in the stone. You know the story: girl meets boy, boy meets wizard, wizard meets unfeasibly evil sorceress, girl meets extremely helpful mole, enabling boy to pull sword from stone, thereby saving the day. "Hang on!" I hear you cry. "Girl meets mole?" Indeed she does. Nothing's ever quite as straightforward as it seems in a Stuart Paterson show. Our Christmas show is always a sell-out so you know what to do – BOOK EARLY! Group bookings welcome.

Booking Opens 20 October

Snake in the Grass

by Alan Ayckbourn

2-9 February 2008

If Neil Simon is the master of NY comedy then Alan Ayckbourn is the undisputed master of English comedy. With Ayckbourn the undertones are always there to make you laugh, wince and cry all at the same time. Echos of The Price resound in Snake in the Grass when two long-parted sisters gather after their father's death in the garden where they played as children, but their relationship is threatened by a secret the family nurse is all too willing to tell. As night falls on the summerhouse, the sisters must each confront the ghosts of their pasts - but is there something more out there in the darkness? Ayckbourn's lively chiller is a safe bet for an enjoyable evening's entertainment.

Booking Opens 8 December

Arcadia

by Tom Stoppard

12-19 April 2008

If there were a speed limit on ideas, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia would have had its license permanently revoked. Stoppard is one of our national treasures and here the focus of this scintillating comedy ricochets at breakneck speed from chaos theory to Byron's love life to landscape gardening, by way of iterated algorithms, the second law of thermodynamics, the population growth rates of goldfish and similar unlikely subjects -- and yet Stoppard delivers a play that's intensely poignant as well as frequently hilarious. Definitely not one to miss!

Booking Opens 8 February

The Happiest Days of Your Life

by John Dighton

24-31 May 2008

We bring the season to a close with John Dighton’s well-loved Happiest Days - popularised in the 1950 film with Alistair Sim and Margaret Rutherford. It's wartime, the Blitz is on and confusion reigns when a girls' school is accidentally billeted with a boys' school. The headmaster of the boys' school is expecting a visit from a group of governors; meanwhile the headmistress of the girls' school has to deal with an unexpected visit from a group of parents. They attempt to show both groups around the school simultaneously without either party realising that the two schools are sharing. What ensues is a battle of the infuriated sexes celebrating innocent days. Join us to close the season with huge dollop of fun and nostalgia.

Booking Opens 12 April