Past productions

Not a Game for Girls

“Not A Game For Girls” tells the dramatic story of the Dick, Kerr’s Ladies, one of the most famous women’s football teams during the First World War – so popular the Football Association tried to ban them! Using a mixture of real life and fictional characters and blending drama, songs and choreographed games “Not A Game For Girls” captures the spirit and camaraderie that led the Dick, Kerr’s Ladies to ignore the prevailing social attitudes from both genders and prove most emphatically that they were wrong to dismiss football and “Not A Game For Girls”.

Shoulder to Shoulder

To mark this year’s anniversary of 100 years since Parliament passed a law which first allowed women to vote, Royal & Derngate, The Play’s The Thing Theatre Company and Cornerstone Arts Centre have been working with local professional theatre companies and local community groups to create four new performances and an installation that seek to measure the impact of the last 100 years of social and political change for women.

Our Town

By Thornton Wilder

Produced and Directed by Rosemary Hill

Although set-in small-town America in a place called Grover’s Corners at the turn of the last century, it could be anywhere. Thorton Wilder tried in this play to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and “Our Town” is not just an affectionate portrait of ordinary people in a small town; it is also an attempt to find value in the smallest events in our daily life. The themes are universal – the strength of community, the importance and joy of everyday things and how everyone has a story. As such it could be Milton Keynes as we celebrate its fiftieth birthday. The production is part of the MK50 “Home Sweet Home” project with Grid Arts.

Instrumental

A devised piece for MK50 “Home Sweet Home” working with Grid Arts.