• ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN

THIS is the third play in the trilogy The Norman Conquests which were written by Alan Ayckbourn over ten days.

Annie, a woman facing single adulthood, is growing tired of the wellintentioned but passionless courtship of her veterinarian friend, Tom. Annie’s brother and sister-in-law, Sarah and Reg, have come to the country to house-sit and take care of Reg and Annie’s invalid Mother but secretly, Annie is planning to go off for the weekend with Norman, her sister Ruth’s husband.

Titchfield Festival Theatre bring the amusing tale to the stage at St Margaret’s Arts Centre from Wednesday to April 19.

Call 01329 556156 or visit titchfieldfestivaltheatre.com

  • ALL MY SONGS

THE first of Arthur Miller’s plays to gain critical success, All My Songs grew from a newspaper report of a manufacturer who had been jailed after he knowingly allowed defective parts to be placed in battlefield tanks during The Second World War. In Miller’s version, Joe Keller’s firm produced cracked pistons for P-40 bombers, leading to the deaths of 21 pilots. But was Joe or his foreman, Steve Deever, responsible?

The Keller family’s suburban dream is about to be shattered as they face up to the truth.

Lyndhurst Drama and Musical Society bring the production to the Vernon Theatre from Thursday to Saturday. Box office: 023 8028 2729.

  • COMPANY

ONE of the greatest musical comedies ever written, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1970s masterpiece Company is brought to the stage by CCADS next week.

Enjoy an entertaining, witty and ultimately touching look at modern marriage and relationships in New York seen through the eyes of 35-year-old bachelor Robert, Company features one of the sharpest books and finest scores of any musical, with songs including Being Alive, You Could Drive a Person Crazy and The Ladies who Lunch.

The musical is at the Station Theatre, Hayling Island from Wednesday to Saturday.

For tickets, call 023 9246 6363.

  • SWEENEY TODD

POCKET Theatre returns to Hanger Farm Arts Centre with a cut-throat production of Stephen
Sondheim’s epic musical thriller.

It’s the tale of of murderous barber who teams up with neighbouring Pie Shop proprietor Mrs
Lovett to find a mutually profitable solution to the problem of disposing of his corpses.

The show runs nightly at 7.30pm from Tuesday to Friday.

Tickets: 023 8066 7683.

STOPPED INTERRUPTING

THE local amateur dramatics group has enough to contend with when one of their actors is knocked over on his way to the theatre.

By happy coincidence, the driver of the car that hit him is their play’s author and agrees to step in to fill the role.

Coincidences are funny things, though, and it turns out Stephen Bradshaw isn’t the only person
laying claim to the ownership of the play tonight!

Admirals’ Players version of Stopped Interrupting is at Whale Island Portsmouth from Tuesday
to Thursday.

Call 07906 227709 or 023
9262 8757.