By Helen Sant Directed by Natalie Roe For York Settlement Community Players ‘There’s something weird about not knowing what you’re packing. I want to take a peek so badly…’ Jack, Sandra, Pam and Neil are packing boxes. None of them can say it’s their dream job but the money’s suspiciously good and it’s only temporary...
By Christopher Durang Directed by Jim Paterson John Cooper Studio @ 41 Monkgate, Thu 3 - Sat 5 November 2022 Vanya and his sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up. But when their famous film-star sister, Masha, makes an impromptu visit with her dashing, twenty-something boyfriend, Spike, on her...
“Exclusive rights isn't love, it's colonisation.” Tom Stoppard’s brilliant, award-winning play of surprise and wit has beguiled audiences for decades. Henry is married to Charlotte. Max is married to Annie. Henry – possibly the sharpest playwright of his generation – has written a play about a couple whose marriage is on the brink of collapse....
By Natalie Roe Directed by Josie Connor ‘The settlers won’t accept anything less than perfect. It has to be just as they remember it. Do it again.’ The not too distant future. Humanity has had to vacate Earth and start again on a less hospitable planet. A team is tasked with trying to recreate the...
By Nikolai Gogol in a version by David Harrower Directed by Alan Park “It’s not good, gentlemen. That’s why I’ve gathered you all here. An Inspector is coming…a Government Inspector!” News of the imminent arrival of a government inspector from St Petersburg sends the bumbling bureaucrats of a small provincial town into a panicked frenzy,...
By Terence Rattigan Directed by Helen Wilson TWO TALES OF LOVE AND LOSS BY ONE OF BRITAIN’S MOST CELEBRATED PLAYWRIGHTS Terence Rattigan’s Separate Tables is set in a shabby Bournemouth hotel in the 1950s, where guests, both permanent and transient, sit on separate tables, a formality which underlines the loneliness of these characters. It has been said...
By Sally Mitcham Directed by Simon Copper “I don’t normally off-load on strangers. It’s just been a really bad morning.” In a children’s soft play that has seen better days, two strangers strike up conversation. Cora and John have a lot in common – young kids, relationships that have ended messily, a love of The Shawshank...
By Steve Martin Directed by Natalie Roe Paris. 1904. Wine o'clock. On a not-so ordinary evening at the Lapin Agile, Montmartre’s iconic cabaret bar favoured by struggling artists, anarchists and intellectuals alike, two soon-to-be legends find themselves sitting next to each other. It turns out Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, with egos as big as...
By Joe Orton Directed by Katie Leckey “Has anybody ever hidden money in a coffin?” York Settlement Community Players are proud to present Joe Orton’s Loot. A masterfully scandalous, free-wheeling and ferocious farce about life’s ultimate taboo…death. Content guidance Joe Orton wrote Loot in 1965, and the script is deliberately controversial and thought-provoking – tackling...
Hey you! Don’t watch that, watch this! It’s the heavy-heavy-monster sound and a new play, brought to you by the YSCP! Steve and Kerry have been married a long time. Steve’s vinyl collection may tear them apart. Luckily they’ve got a counsellor…. And Steve’s friend Boring Ryan on hand to help them out. It must...