EXPLORE DRAMA
News & Events 2026
EXPLORE DRAMA WITH US
To find out more
The Perfect Murder by Hugh Janes from the book by Jeffrey Archer
Directed by Gill Lambourn
THE PERFECT MURDER
The Perfect Murder a novel by Jeffrey Archer, adapted for the stage by Hugh Janes is not so much a
“who dun it?” as a “will he be found guilty?”. John is convinced he has committed murder and declares this to the audience in the opening lines of the play. We then go back in time following the investigation by D.I. Simmons and Sgt “Skipper” Davies and the murder trial run by Judge Buchanan, the council for the defence QC Scott and for the prosecution Sir Humphrey Mountcliff. We discover how John and his wife Elizabeth deal with the challenging situation they face and later we meet Paul Menzies who turns out to be a critical ingredient in the plot.
CAST
John Jason Burt
Elizabeth Clare Burt
DI Simmons Chris Smith
Sgt Davies Mike Ryder
Maria Yvette Walters
Paul Jonathan Rogers
Alan Tony Clark
Sir Humphrey Richard Sanderson
Judge Sue Wilkins
Scott QC Andy Horner
Clerk Tony Clark
Mallins Paul Pridmore
Playreading Friday March 13th
3 Plays from
Tonight at 8.30 by Noel Coward
Written as a vehicle for Coward's own acting talents alongside his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, Tonight at 8:30 is Coward's ambitious series of ten one-act plays which saw him breathe new life into the one-act form.
From vaudeville to satire, from farce to intricate comedy of manners, from melodrama to romance, these plays span the full, glorious range of Coward's writing. Peep through your fingers at the chaotic Red Peppers music-hall show, witness a bankrupt couple use all Ways and Means to scheme their way out of debt, savor The Astonished Heart and break your heart along with Laura in the famous Still Life, the original version of the film Brief Encounter.
The plays in yellow will be those read.
The Church Rooms,
St Mary's Church, Church Lane, Funtington at 7.30pm
Audition details to come
As a clergy wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour. Now, following the death of her husband Bardolph, she is enjoying the new-found freedom to do and say exactly as she pleases, usually to the new - female - vicar, Sarah. The return of Grace's eccentric missionary sister Ruth prompts some disturbing revelations, which force her to confront Bardolph's ghost and the truth of their marriage. At the same time Sarah reveals some un-clergy-like credentials of her own to Grace's therapist daughter Jo. Entertaining Angels asks whether God can be trusted to do anything right at all, "Or is the whole thing a divine exercise in trial and error?"
Autumn Production
PEOPLE by Alan Bennett
25th – 30th November 2025.
Directed By Alan Copsey
See 2025 for Production Photos‘