PAST PRODUCTIONS
'PERFECT 10'
26 - 29 NOVEMBER 2024
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10 + 2 PERFECT PLAYS TO SING & SHOUT ABOUT!
How many of us have heard the term “Once in a Blue Moon”? You might even have used the expression yourself at some point. Well, it put in several appearances throughout our latest production.
'Perfect 10', made up of 10+2 mini plays, delivered gripping drama, had our audiences laughing out loud, and tugged at the heartstrings.
It featured plays from 11 playwrighters who were winners or runners-up in the Ilkley Playhouse 8x8x8 Festivals of 2020/1 and 2022/3. Thanks to all the writers and to Jay Cundell Walker who gave permission to bring their plays to life on our QT stage last November.
To make the show a bit ‘different’, we added some musical numbers - songs relevant to the scene to include a mixture of solos, duets and group numbers.
Check our Videos page to watch one of our performances of 'Perfect 10'.
Bang You're Dead!
Lydia and her boyfriend Marcus rehearse the murder of Theo, Lydia’s husband, which they’re to commit that evening. When the victim and the “perfect witness” arrive, the well-rehearsed plan appears to have an unrehearsed ending. A ghastly mistake – or are there some deviations from the original plot?
DEAD WICKED SEASON
21 - 24 May 2024
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The play is set in the dressing room of Clarence Marchant – an old-school Shakespearean actor, who is playing the lead role of Macbeth. As Clarence’s career unravels at the bottom of the bottle and a mysterious accident on-stage stops him in his tracks, understudy Dominic takes centre stage, unaware of the dark secrets surrounding him. Has Polly (Dominic’s fiancé and fellow actor) been pulling the strings behind the scenes, has stage manager Trish caused Clarence’s downfall, has Claire (Clarence’s dresser) pulled out a show-stopping performance herself? Two years later, Dominic is now a successful actor, playing Hamlet, and has returned to the same theatre and dressing room. Suddenly ghosts from the past start to appear in haunting revelations. Is the price of fame all it’s cracked up to be, or has Dominic been left with blood on his hands?