Events in Tameside - Theatre

Directed by Gerard Crawshaw

Dr David Mortimer is about to address a conference of neuro-surgeons with a speech that will probably earn him a knighthood.
Enter Jane Tate, a nurse he had a fling with 18 years ago who bore him a son - a son who is currently rampaging around the hospital searching for the dad he has never seen!
Frantic to hide this catastrophic news from his wife and the hospital authorities, David is forced to invent not one but two non-existent husbands for Jane...
Events spin deliriously out of control, complicated by a senile patient, a policeman, and a fierce matron hanging off a window ledge with a hypodermic syringe in her rump!
This funny farce promises an evening of uproarious fun for all.

Booking opens Monday 16th August 2010

by Sylvia Walker

The McGarry twins, Norman and Barry have retired. Their wives, Val and Marion, think they need something to do apart from bowling.

They come up with a plan to buy an apartment abroad, but haven't quite enough capital. Not to be beaten they conceive a plan for their husbands to work for a few months by doing odd jobs for lonely widows. This would build up the extra income required.

They could even include Gary their daughter's jobless boyfriend.
Funnily enough the husbands come up with the same idea, but their idea entails the ladies forming a business to do exactly the same. These separate plans are kept secret until they can all meet over a drink. Who will win the battle of the sexes? I'm sure you'll guess.

This world famous play is a collection of urban nightlife observations. 

Mossley Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society are one of the most successful amateur theatre groups in the North West of England. We have a very active calendar of events based around our yearly productions of a winter production, a play and a musical production. Alongside this we have our exciting and talented Next Generation youth theatre group which meets weekly and produces its own productions throughout the year.

Hyde Festival Theatre’s first foray into professional theatre brings Rob Johnston’s specially commissioned play, Einstein’s Daughter, to the Festival Theatre.

It is set over a single night in the kitchen of an isolated farmhouse in the north of England. Maggie lives there with her father Andrew, a celebrated scientist, where they lead a life that is as conventional as it is idyllic.

Into this blissful, humdrum picture bursts Cath, a childhood friend of Maggie’s, away for ten years but now back to tell Maggie something she should have learned a long time ago.

By the end of the night nothing is left of the picture-box idyll so carefully constructed by Andrew and taken for granted by Maggie. By the end of the night nothing much is left of anything at all.

"One night. One secret. One final act."

This play will be staged in the Festival Theatre Studio space on the first floor with access only by stairs.

To create a complete youth drama programme at Guide Bridge Theatre for children and young people aged 3-18 years. Do you have a budding talent? You could have the opportunity to study for LAMDA qualifications if desired? Or just build your confidence through the fun and interactive drama workshops.

Directed by Joan Sargent

John Forsyth is a businessman of considerable wealth but when son Edgar and his new bride return from honeymoon, they discover that father’s business is in trouble.
Although public school educated, Edgar is hopelessly unemployable. When his father is bankrupted after speculating with his dwindling capital, the family face disaster.
Step forward Edgar’s new wife, Sidney, a socialist and suffragist who announces that she will take a secretarial job and become the breadwinner, to which her husband replies “no decent husband could live off his wife’s earnings”.
From the author of Hindle Wakes, the play suggests that female independence can be combined with marital harmony. Ground breaking in 1909, its mix of feminism, romance and razor-sharp wit makes it as relevant today as it was 100 years ago.

Booking opens Monday 27th September 2010

Directed by Carla Stokes

In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook.
But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night.
A mischievous boy who magically refuses to grow up, he leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life meeting Indians, fairies and mermaids. But then comes the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates...
Popular with children for almost a hundred years, revisit the magical world of Peter Pan with your children and grandchildren.


Booking opens Monday 8th November 2010

Story of the ugly duckling, one for the family.

Mossley Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society are one of the most successful amateur theatre groups in the North West of England. We have a very active calendar of events based around our yearly productions of a winter production, a play and a musical production. Alongside this we have our exciting and talented Next Generation youth theatre group which meets weekly and produces its own productions throughout the year.