What’s On

“If music be the food of love”, to start,
A small band of players take many parts
In this tale of mistaken identity.
Unrequited love, drunken jollity,
Live music, yellow stockings and a fight
Make for the most entertaining of nights.
There’s pathos too, and joy and sadness
And moments to fill the heart with gladness.
Join Jenny Wren Productions for some fun
In the open-air, under “the glorious sun”.

Jenny Wren Productions are thrilled to present Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in the open-air – please bring a blanket or chair.

Grounds open an hour prior to the performance for picnics. In the open-air – please bring a chair or blanket

Please note: in the event of bad weather, the performance will move into The Coach House Theatre

“If music be the food of love”, to start,
A small band of players take many parts
In this tale of mistaken identity.
Unrequited love, drunken jollity,
Live music, yellow stockings and a fight
Make for the most entertaining of nights.
There’s pathos too, and joy and sadness
And moments to fill the heart with gladness.
Join Jenny Wren Productions for some fun
In the open-air, under “the glorious sun”.

Jenny Wren Productions are thrilled to present Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in the open-air – please bring a blanket or chair.

Grounds open an hour prior to the performance for picnics. In the open-air – please bring a chair or blanket

Please note: in the event of bad weather, the performance will move into The Coach House Theatre

Malvern Theatre Players

(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)

49^th Season

The Effect

 By Lucy Prebble

“Love is merely a madness” wrote William Shakespeare in As You Like It, “and, I tell you, deserves well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.” But what is love, is it merely an effect? A reaction of the nervous system? That’s what Lucy Prebble’s play puts into question through characters cajoling Tristan and serene psychotherapy  student Connie who fall in love while undergoing a clinical test for a new antidepressant.

The Effect is the production that affirmed Prebble’s gilded status as a playwright-to-watch when it was first staged at the National’s Cottesloe (now Dorfman Theatre) in 2012 following success with The Sugar Syndrome and ENRON. Since then, Prebble has become a household name. In part thanks to Succession, but also thanks to I Hate Lucy and Secret Diaries of a Call Girl. 

**** Intense and intoxicating encounter – Guardian

**** A fiery play – Telegraph

**** A mind blowing experience – Standard

Contains material that some people may find offensive

Not suitable for under 14s

Malvern Theatre Players

(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)

49^th Season

The Effect

 By Lucy Prebble

“Love is merely a madness” wrote William Shakespeare in As You Like It, “and, I tell you, deserves well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.” But what is love, is it merely an effect? A reaction of the nervous system? That’s what Lucy Prebble’s play puts into question through characters cajoling Tristan and serene psychotherapy  student Connie who fall in love while undergoing a clinical test for a new antidepressant.

The Effect is the production that affirmed Prebble’s gilded status as a playwright-to-watch when it was first staged at the National’s Cottesloe (now Dorfman Theatre) in 2012 following success with The Sugar Syndrome and ENRON. Since then, Prebble has become a household name. In part thanks to Succession, but also thanks to I Hate Lucy and Secret Diaries of a Call Girl. 

**** Intense and intoxicating encounter – Guardian

**** A fiery play – Telegraph

**** A mind blowing experience – Standard

Contains material that some people may find offensive

Not suitable for under 14s

Malvern Theatre Players

(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)

49^th Season

The Effect

 By Lucy Prebble

“Love is merely a madness” wrote William Shakespeare in As You Like It, “and, I tell you, deserves well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.” But what is love, is it merely an effect? A reaction of the nervous system? That’s what Lucy Prebble’s play puts into question through characters cajoling Tristan and serene psychotherapy  student Connie who fall in love while undergoing a clinical test for a new antidepressant.

The Effect is the production that affirmed Prebble’s gilded status as a playwright-to-watch when it was first staged at the National’s Cottesloe (now Dorfman Theatre) in 2012 following success with The Sugar Syndrome and ENRON. Since then, Prebble has become a household name. In part thanks to Succession, but also thanks to I Hate Lucy and Secret Diaries of a Call Girl. 

**** Intense and intoxicating encounter – Guardian

**** A fiery play – Telegraph

**** A mind blowing experience – Standard

Contains material that some people may find offensive

Not suitable for under 14s

Malvern Theatre Players

(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)

49^th Season

The Effect

 By Lucy Prebble

“Love is merely a madness” wrote William Shakespeare in As You Like It, “and, I tell you, deserves well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.” But what is love, is it merely an effect? A reaction of the nervous system? That’s what Lucy Prebble’s play puts into question through characters cajoling Tristan and serene psychotherapy  student Connie who fall in love while undergoing a clinical test for a new antidepressant.

The Effect is the production that affirmed Prebble’s gilded status as a playwright-to-watch when it was first staged at the National’s Cottesloe (now Dorfman Theatre) in 2012 following success with The Sugar Syndrome and ENRON. Since then, Prebble has become a household name. In part thanks to Succession, but also thanks to I Hate Lucy and Secret Diaries of a Call Girl. 

**** Intense and intoxicating encounter – Guardian

**** A fiery play – Telegraph

**** A mind blowing experience – Standard

Contains material that some people may find offensive

Not suitable for under 14s

Malvern Theatre Players

(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)

49^th Season

The Effect

 By Lucy Prebble

“Love is merely a madness” wrote William Shakespeare in As You Like It, “and, I tell you, deserves well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.” But what is love, is it merely an effect? A reaction of the nervous system? That’s what Lucy Prebble’s play puts into question through characters cajoling Tristan and serene psychotherapy  student Connie who fall in love while undergoing a clinical test for a new antidepressant.

The Effect is the production that affirmed Prebble’s gilded status as a playwright-to-watch when it was first staged at the National’s Cottesloe (now Dorfman Theatre) in 2012 following success with The Sugar Syndrome and ENRON. Since then, Prebble has become a household name. In part thanks to Succession, but also thanks to I Hate Lucy and Secret Diaries of a Call Girl. 

**** Intense and intoxicating encounter – Guardian

**** A fiery play – Telegraph

**** A mind blowing experience – Standard

Contains material that some people may find offensive

Not suitable for under 14s

Malvern Theatre Players

(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)

49^th Season

The Effect

 By Lucy Prebble

“Love is merely a madness” wrote William Shakespeare in As You Like It, “and, I tell you, deserves well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.” But what is love, is it merely an effect? A reaction of the nervous system? That’s what Lucy Prebble’s play puts into question through characters cajoling Tristan and serene psychotherapy  student Connie who fall in love while undergoing a clinical test for a new antidepressant.

The Effect is the production that affirmed Prebble’s gilded status as a playwright-to-watch when it was first staged at the National’s Cottesloe (now Dorfman Theatre) in 2012 following success with The Sugar Syndrome and ENRON. Since then, Prebble has become a household name. In part thanks to Succession, but also thanks to I Hate Lucy and Secret Diaries of a Call Girl. 

**** Intense and intoxicating encounter – Guardian

**** A fiery play – Telegraph

**** A mind blowing experience – Standard

Contains material that some people may find offensive

Not suitable for under 14s

Malvern Theatre Players

(Resident Company of the Coach House Theatre)

49^th Season

The Effect

 By Lucy Prebble

“Love is merely a madness” wrote William Shakespeare in As You Like It, “and, I tell you, deserves well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.” But what is love, is it merely an effect? A reaction of the nervous system? That’s what Lucy Prebble’s play puts into question through characters cajoling Tristan and serene psychotherapy  student Connie who fall in love while undergoing a clinical test for a new antidepressant.

The Effect is the production that affirmed Prebble’s gilded status as a playwright-to-watch when it was first staged at the National’s Cottesloe (now Dorfman Theatre) in 2012 following success with The Sugar Syndrome and ENRON. Since then, Prebble has become a household name. In part thanks to Succession, but also thanks to I Hate Lucy and Secret Diaries of a Call Girl. 

**** Intense and intoxicating encounter – Guardian

**** A fiery play – Telegraph

**** A mind blowing experience – Standard

Contains material that some people may find offensive

Not suitable for under 14s

A legendary figure has signed in for out-of-season rehab. Is he the real thing, or another otherwise unemployed actor between Santa gigs?  That’s the set up for this comic celebration by the critically acclaimed writer and performer Terry Victor – a jolly, white-bearded, fat man who has defiantly danced in the dark side of the GROTTO.

“This is a show for grown-ups who have forgotten what it’s like to sit on Santa’s knee and perhaps regret remembering….” (★★★★ STARBURST Magazine).

Unseasonable, unreasonable & unsuitable for brats. “…so funny from beginning to end” (★★★★★ The Audience Club). You can expect ‘more burley than burlesque’ drag, Xmassy rapping and juicy namedrops. This is one for the naughty list, and it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas will never be the same again. Ho! Ho! Ho!

BAH HUMBUG!

Written by Kit Hunter 

Starring Liz Grand & Katherine Parker-Jones

Joanne is very rich but all alone on Christmas Eve. She hates Christmas with a passion and explains at length what is wrong with it. She eventually nods off and awakes to find a woman in her flat. She has no idea how she got in, who she is, or what she wants. On the other hand, the woman seems to know a great deal about Joanne and her family and her somewhat murky past.

This bitter/sweet comedy brings a modern twist to the Scrooge experience, and is guaranteed to make the audience both laugh and cry.”

Recommended 14+ – strong language

Starring:

Katherine Parker-Jones 

Roles include Gwendolin Fairfax in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, Annie in ‘Round and Round the Garden’, Helena in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Luciana in ‘The Comedy of Errors’, Bianca in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ and Hero in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ for the Worcester Repertory Company. Has also recently appeared as Kyra in David Hare’s ‘Skylight’ with Aspect  theatre, for whom she is also Creative Producer.

Liz Grand

One-woman shows ‘Where Is Mrs. Christie?’ ‘The Second Best Bed’ and ‘Mrs. Churchill – My Life with Winston.’ Shakespearian roles include Lady Macbeth, Portia, Titania and Constance, pantomime roles include Queen Rat, Dolores, Fairy Godmother, Empress of China and Clara the Cook.

BAH HUMBUG!

Written by Kit Hunter 

Starring Liz Grand & Katherine Parker-Jones

Joanne is very rich but all alone on Christmas Eve. She hates Christmas with a passion and explains at length what is wrong with it. She eventually nods off and awakes to find a woman in her flat. She has no idea how she got in, who she is, or what she wants. On the other hand, the woman seems to know a great deal about Joanne and her family and her somewhat murky past.

This bitter/sweet comedy brings a modern twist to the Scrooge experience, and is guaranteed to make the audience both laugh and cry.”

Recommended 14+ – strong language

Starring:

Katherine Parker-Jones 

Roles include Gwendolin Fairfax in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, Annie in ‘Round and Round the Garden’, Helena in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Luciana in ‘The Comedy of Errors’, Bianca in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ and Hero in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ for the Worcester Repertory Company. Has also recently appeared as Kyra in David Hare’s ‘Skylight’ with Aspect  theatre, for whom she is also Creative Producer.

Liz Grand

One-woman shows ‘Where Is Mrs. Christie?’ ‘The Second Best Bed’ and ‘Mrs. Churchill – My Life with Winston.’ Shakespearian roles include Lady Macbeth, Portia, Titania and Constance, pantomime roles include Queen Rat, Dolores, Fairy Godmother, Empress of China and Clara the Cook.

BAH HUMBUG!

Written by Kit Hunter 

Starring Liz Grand & Katherine Parker-Jones

Joanne is very rich but all alone on Christmas Eve. She hates Christmas with a passion and explains at length what is wrong with it. She eventually nods off and awakes to find a woman in her flat. She has no idea how she got in, who she is, or what she wants. On the other hand, the woman seems to know a great deal about Joanne and her family and her somewhat murky past.

This bitter/sweet comedy brings a modern twist to the Scrooge experience, and is guaranteed to make the audience both laugh and cry.”

Recommended 14+ – strong language

Starring:

Katherine Parker-Jones 

Roles include Gwendolin Fairfax in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, Annie in ‘Round and Round the Garden’, Helena in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Luciana in ‘The Comedy of Errors’, Bianca in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ and Hero in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ for the Worcester Repertory Company. Has also recently appeared as Kyra in David Hare’s ‘Skylight’ with Aspect  theatre, for whom she is also Creative Producer.

Liz Grand

One-woman shows ‘Where Is Mrs. Christie?’ ‘The Second Best Bed’ and ‘Mrs. Churchill – My Life with Winston.’ Shakespearian roles include Lady Macbeth, Portia, Titania and Constance, pantomime roles include Queen Rat, Dolores, Fairy Godmother, Empress of China and Clara the Cook.