Weller and Fonsia, two elderly residents at a nursing home, begin playing a series of games of gin rummy which Fonsia always wins. While playing, they engage in conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world. Weller's inability to win a single hand becomes increasingly frustrating to him, and gradually, each conversation becomes a battle, much like the ongoing gin games.
Featuring Richard Figge (Barrymore’s Ghost) and Jo McGarvey (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Directed by Nancy Cates
Present Laughter
by Noel Coward
November 26 to December 19, 2010
A successful and self-obsessed matinee idol, Garry Essendine, prepares a world tour of his latest hit play.Amid a series of events bordering on farce, Garry must deal with women who want to seduce him, placate both his long-suffering secretary and his estranged wife, cope with a crazed young playwright, and overcome his fear of his own approaching mid-life crisis.
Featuring special guest artist Daren Kelly (I Hate Hamlet)
Directed by Nancy Cates
The Unexpected Guest
By Agatha Christie
January 27-February 20, 2011
On a foggy night, Michael Starkwedder enters the home of the Warwicks through a window in the study. He finds the dead body of Richard Warwick, and finds Warwick's wife, Laura, holding the gun that supposedly killed him. Despite the murder being obvious, and overwhelming evidence pointing towards her guilt, Laura claims innocence, and the two decide to place the blame on one of Richard’s many enemies from the past.
Directed by by Andrew Cruse
Lettice and Lovage
By Peter Shaffer
March 24-April 17, 2011
Lettice Duffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable but daffy enthusiast of history and the theatre. As a tour guide at Fustian House, one of the least stately of England's stately homes, she theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately coming up on the radar of Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust. Neither impressed nor entertained by Lettice's freewheeling history lessons, Lotte fires her. Not one however, to go without a fight, Lettice engages the stoic, conventional Lotte in a battle to the death of all that is sacred to the Empire and the crown.
Directed by Terry Burgler
Sleuth
by Anthony Shaffer
May 12-June 5, 2011
Andrew Wyke is an immensely successful mystery writer, whose manor home reflects his obsession with games and game-playing. He lures his wife's lover, Milo Tindle, to the house and convinces him to stage a robbery of her jewelry, a proposal that sets off a chain of events that leaves the audience trying to decipher where Wyke's imagination ends and reality begins.
