Royalty Theatre Program 2026 - 2027
We are incredibly excited to share with you the line-up for next season! It is sure to be a brilliant one.
Outside Edge
By Richard Harris
22nd – 26th September 2026
"A HILARIOUS VILLAGE CRICKET COMEDY"
Scraping together a team for the afternoon fixture is the least of Roger’s problems. As the match approaches, the players’ personal lives completely unravel.
Between injured fingers, hysterical breakdowns, and domestic warfare, it’s a cascading disaster of marital meltdowns. And just when it seems things can’t possibly get any worse… the heavens open up.
A classic British farce that premiered in 1979 and famously spawned a popular television sitcom.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
ByOscar Wilde, adapted by John O'Connor & Merlin Holland
27th – 31st October 2026
Dorian Gray becomes infatuated with an exquisite portrait of himself, making a Faustian pact to remain forever young while the canvas bears the scars of his moral decay.
Adapted by Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland and John O’Connor, this delightfully witty production incorporates previously suppressed material from the original manuscript, bringing a classic tale of art and reality vividly to life.
Jack and the Beanstalk
By Andrew Barella
4th – 20th December 2026 (Relaxed performance 17/12/2026)
Get ready for a giant-sized helping of Wearside magic in this hilarious, high-energy pantomime adventure!
When the villainous Fleshcreep demands a fortune in rent for the terrifying Giant Blunderbore, poor Jack Trott is forced to make a desperate choice and sell the family’s beloved cow, Daisy. But when he trades her for a handful of “magic beans” instead of gold, he drags his outrageous mother Dame Trott and silly brother Simon into an epic adventure in the clouds!
Noises Off
By Michael Frayn
16th – 20th February 2027
"The Ultimate Comedy of On-Stage Chaos and Backstage Drama!
Doors slamming, trousers dropping, and sardines flying—welcome to the hilarious world of Noises Off! This legendary slapstick farce gives you a front-row seat to a touring theatre troupe attempting to perform a chaotic sex farce called Nothing On. The twist?
You get to see the disaster unfold from three completely different angles.
Brace yourself for a riotous night of theatre where everything that can go wrong… goes spectacularly, hilariously wrong.
The Birthday Party
By Harold Pinter
20th – 24th April 2027
A COMEDY OF MENACE.
The Birthday Party is about Stanley Webber, an erstwhile piano player who lives in a rundown boarding house run by Meg and Petey Boles, in an English seaside town, “probably on the south coast, not too far from London”.
Two sinister strangers, Goldberg and McCann, arrive looking for him, supposedly on his birthday, and turn his apparently innocuous birthday party organised by Meg into a nightmare.
Cluedo
By Sandy Rustin
29th June – 3rd July 2027
It’s a dark and stormy night, and our cast of oddball characters has been invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well, dead. So whodunit? Join the iconic oddballs known as Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, and Mustard as they race to find the murderer in Boddy Manor before the body count stacks up.
Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, Clue is a madcap comedy that will keep you guessing until the final twist.
