The Miller Centre Young Players present their production of Peter Pan in a musical version of JM Barrie's classic story by David Barrett.

by The Lions Part

28 June - 7 July 2012

These are several inter-linked stories – and they are all based on real events. They are about Land Girls, some of the thousands of young women who were conscripted during World War Two to serve as labourers on the nation’s farms. With all the young men from the land being called into the armed forces and the paramount need to aim for self sufficiency in food, young women were sent to help the farmers. Some loved it: some hated it. Some had a tolerable time with reasonable hosts: others were treated as slave labour. From out of this experience come four girls with stories to tell – some funny, some sad but most merely illustrating life on the farm in that long-ago era – “during the war”. And throughout it all, we hear the music and the songs from that time, when everything changed and women drove tractors, milked cows, delivered lambs, ploughed fields and brought in the harvest.

by Moliere (in a new translation by Roger McGough)

24 May - 2 June 2012

Tartuffe, a prime character invented by Moliere in the 17th century, has become another name for hypocrite. In the play, Tartuffe, a wily impostor, is invited into his home by a wealthy merchant, Orgon, who believes Tartuffe to be a paragon of virtue to whom the Orgon family must defer. He even goes so far as preparing to leave Tartuffe his fortune and to offer him his daughter’s hand in marriage. Other less gullible family members come close to exposing him but the slippery Tartuffe always manages to maintain his righteous image. In the end, it is Mme Orgon who exposes Tartuffe for the fraud he is – and exposes her husband for the fool he is. All done with a deliciously light touch and with a happy ending to complete the evening.

by Peter Gordon

19 - 28 April 2012

A country house. Assembled guests. A dark and stormy night. A murder. The police are called. Enter Inspector Pratt - and from there on it is a glorious spoof of every Agatha Christie murder mystery you ever saw. The bumbling cop pursues clues and points fingers in every direction while never quite seeing the obvious, or nailing the culprit. It is not so much a question of whether Pratt will get his man before someone else gets the chop as whether he will make an arrest before the audience dies of laughter. Like Clouseau? You’ll love Pratt.

By arrangement with Edward Snape for Fiery Angel Limited

John Buchan and Alfred Hitchcock's

The 39 Steps

Adapted by Patrick Barlow. From an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon

22 - 31 March 2012

This is a theatrical tour de force. Richard Hannay, handsome, soldierly, lantern-jawed, pipe-smoking Englishman befriends a lonely woman who is later stabbed in his flat. She was mixed up with a team of foreign spies, which leads Hannay to Scotland, all the time evading the police who want him for the woman’s murder. Taking the Flying Scotsman, he has to cling to the train as it passes over the Forth Bridge and later crosses the moors with avenging spies in pursuit. Finding refuge with a crofter, he is helped to escape by the crofter’s wife before finding himself handcuffed to a girl he met on the train. He stays overnight in a small hotel with her – while remaining the perfect gentleman, of course – and then meets the master spy and finally brings the whole evil network to book in a triumphant finale. All this on stage as costumes, props, sets, lighting, sound and characters appear and re appear in a dazzling display of quick changes. Huge fun.