By Robert Kauzlauric adapted from the novel by Neil Gaiman

From the award-winning creator of Coraline, Stardust and (most recently) an episode of Doctor Who.  Follow the hapless Richard Mayhew as he finds himself on a quest through the eerie underworld of London Below, with its rich assortment of speaking rats, lost souls and professional killers.

Set largely in the damp sewers and tube stations of London, this is a vivid and fantastical tale for all the family.

The story was originally created as a television series, produced by Lenny Henry, first aired in 1996 on BBC2

Matinees 21st and 28th at 2.30pm

Translated by Christopher Hampton

“My friend Serge has bought a painting…”

So begins the belligerent and outraged Marc, self appointed voice of common sense, as he and his two oldest friends – the emerging aesthete Serge and the ever insecure Yvan – discover that their views on art, status and relationships don’t match up.

Could the purchase of an extravagant piece of modern art trigger the deconstruction and destruction of a friendship built up over fifteen years?

Art is a hilarious play centred on perceptions and perspectives filled with beautifully crafted dialogue and characters.

Monday 19^th to Saturday 24^th March 2012

Progress Youth Theatre presents an all female production of Nigel Williams stage adaptation of William Golding’s classic controversial novel.

Golding’s acute and sometimes savage investigation of human nature and our concept of civilisation is brought into stark focus with a switch of gender, further underlining the universality of the human power struggle within self governance and tribal instinct.

Gaggle of Saints, by Neil LaBute

This award-winning, lyrically intense one-act play concerns a young Mormon couple who separately describe the events of an anniversary weekend in New York. As the events described entwine, the girl is blissfully unaware of the violence perpetrated by her fiancé.

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Handbagged, by Moira Buffini

For over a decade Margaret Thatcher met the Queen for a weekly audience. With all her previous Prime Ministers the Queen enjoyed a fairly informal relationship, but with Mrs Thatcher, things were different. Handbagged is an extremely witty look at what the relationship between these two very powerful and private women might have been like, including the influence of two key men: Ronald Reagan and Michael Shea. It provides a wonderful opportunity for four actresses to portray the two formidable women at different stages of their life.