How Margaret Thatcher first won and then lost the Tory leadership.

The Rise and Fall of Margaret Thatcher begins after the Conservatives’ defeat in the February 1974 election and shows how Mrs Thatcher unexpectedly captured the party leadership from Edward Heath, propelled by her willingness to challenge him when no one else would.

Act Two starts as Mrs Thatcher celebrates 10 years as prime minister and dramatises the sequence of events which led to her downfall the following year.

The play concentrates on the personalities, rivalries and machinations involved in the leadership battles rather than the wider political issues of the time and does not set out to take a pro or anti-Thatcher stance.

Mrs Thatcher blamed her loss of office on the deceitful treachery of Geoffery Howe, the irresponsible ambition of Michael Heseltine, tawdry Cabinet disloyalty and contemptible backbench weakness. But was that the whole story?

A Word For Mother 
by Tim McArthur 
Produced by Helen and Paul Matthews in association with Hairy Bear Productions

Three sisters return home after their mums passing. They all reflect on their relationships with their mum and, over time, secrets, tensions and lies simmer to the surface. Will the sisters bond survive? 

Bear doesn’t like birthdays
He doesn’t like birthday parties or balloons
He doesn’t like birthday cards or songs or candles
In fact, Bear is quite sure he doesn’t like anything to do with birthdays at all

Mouse on the other hand is determined to show him all the joys a Birthday can offer. Will she succeed?

An uplifting story of friendship, persistence, the importance of trying new things and letting go! Packed with memorable tunes and audience interaction it promises to be a joyful theatrical experience for young children and their families.

Suitable for ages 2+

In 1960, at the height of his fame, singer, songwriter, and satirist Tom Lehrer gave it all up. He spent the rest of his career as an obscure maths lecturer. This show investigates the strange disappearance of Tom Lehrer - and includes some of his greatest songs, like Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, and The Elements.

From the writer of sell-out shows including VODKA FOR STALIN and A MODEST LITTLE MAN, this new musical featuring the music of Tom Lehrer sheds light on the most enigmatic figure in musical comedy.

After a sold-out, SIX STAR(!) performance, Grammy and Emmy Award Winning musician Paul Bogaev is back by popular demand with an evening of songs from legendary songwriters Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits as you've never heard them before!

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"Bogaev regaled the audience with not only the songs of these two icons of rock music but also personal stories that made for an enthralling evening. A superb show!”
LondonTheatre1

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"This is the kind of show that comes around only very occasionally into one's lifetime. I am so glad I was able to witness it.”
Aline Waites Reviews

Featuring classics like THUNDER ROAD and NO SURRENDER, Paul inhabits the rich, complex characters at the heart of these quintessentially American narratives, bringing them to life in performance.

World premiere of a new musical with crashing waves, swelling music, and an emotional storm across the 18th century that will make you wish you’d brought your life jacket.

Come with us on an epic voyage across time and space to share the trials of a simple clockmaker who lost almost everything in his quest to save others.

A true story of betrayal, obsession, and injustice, conquered only by the love of his family and the intervention of Mad King George.

Ages: 8+

A foot-stomping, barn-storming celebration of some of the most iconic and best-loved Jewish popular songwriters. Internationally renowned singer-pianist Jeremy Sassoon and his superb band will take you on a journey through the golden era of Gershwin and the Great American Songbook to the 21st century, honouring artists such as Carole King, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Randy Newman and Amy Winehouse. Full of surprising and hilarious anecdotes and some of the most unforgettable songs you've ever sung along and danced to, MOJO is illuminating, uplifting and joyous entertainment.

Ever since the show’s 250-strong sell out launch in 2019, the show has been receiving standing ovations in Manchester, London, Liverpool and at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, where the show played a 4 week run, gaining sparkling 5 star reviews and a live performance on BBC Radio Scotland.

"If it’s good enough for Shakespeare, it’s good enough for us."

Rodgers and Hart’s classic 1938 musical comedy adaptation of The Comedy of Errors returns to the London stage for its debut at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, in a madcap tale of mistaken identity, danger and romance in ancient Greece!

Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio, arrive in Ephesus as part of a long search for their respective identical twins from whom they were separated as children during a shipwreck. But citizens of Syracuse caught in Ephesus are subject to the death penalty. As fate has it, there’s another Antipholus who’s an established citizen of Ephesus, served by another Dromio. Confusions multiply as wives are baffled by husbands, one twin is wrongly jailed and Antipholus of Syracuse falls in love with his wife’s sister – or does he?

Arguably Rodgers and Hart’s best, the score includes the hit songs Falling in Love with Love; This Can’t Be Love and Sing for Your Supper.

Stephen Leslie Productions
presents
FAST
by Kate Barton and Stephen Bennett

“How far would you go to find the perfect cure?”

Celebrity influencers, protein shake peddlers, diet pill pushers… we tell ourselves it’s a modern phenomenon. But is it really?
Fast is the true story of ‘Dr’ Linda Hazzard — complex, charismatic and utterly driven — whose promotion, in the early 1900s, of her own radical fasting cure, gripped the press and divided a nation.

Was she vilified merely as an interfering woman in a man’s world... or were there darker forces at play?

Following huge success in Brighton, Edinburgh and London, playwright Kate Barton and award-winning screenwriter Stephen Bennett have developed the original one-act play to bring you this full-length psychological thriller.