Read all about it! Read all about it!

There are stories to be read but not necessarily the one that the Gentlemen of The Footlights Club are looking for!

Children falling down rabbit holes

Wizards and Witches stopping friends reaching their goals

Pirates attacking boats in the middle of choppy seas

Townsfolk stopping a train just before it hits a landslide

But anything about an adventurer and his servant travelling the world in 80 days? We’ll have to wait and see!

Trains, boats, elephants and a cast of 48 young actors take us Around The Stage in 5 Plays!

Trains, boats, elephants and a cast of 48 young actors take us Around The Stage in 5 Plays!

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.

Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire.  But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.Lesley Manville and Aidan Turner star in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.

“Armed with plenty of heart and some lovingly textured performances” - Variety

Three sisters reunite for their mother’s wedding, where old tensions and buried emotions resurface. A warm, gently comic drama about family, memory and the complicated bonds between mothers and daughters.

Three sisters return to their childhood home for the wedding of their twice-widowed mother, bringing with them very different lives, perspectives and unresolved tensions. As preparations unfold, old rivalries, buried grief and long-held misunderstandings resurface, forcing each of them to confront the past and their changing relationship with their mother. Balancing warmth, humour and emotional honesty, My Mother’s Wedding explores family dynamics, memory and the fragile bonds that hold people together. With a strong ensemble cast, it offers a reflective and gently comic portrait of love, loss and the complicated ties between mothers and daughters.

“...an offbeat indie that’s far better than it sounds” - Variety

A meticulous piano tuner discovers an unexpected talent for cracking safes and is pulled into a dangerous criminal world. Stylish, tense and darkly witty, Tuner is a sharp thriller about hidden skills and the risks they bring.

A gifted piano tuner lives a quiet, meticulous life, attuned to the smallest details of sound and structure. But when his precision reveals an unexpected talent for cracking safes, he is drawn into a world far removed from concert halls and craftsmanship. As the stakes rise, he must navigate criminal networks, shifting loyalties and the consequences of a skill he never meant to possess. Anchored by a breakout performance from Leo Woodall, Tuner blends tension, dark humour and character-driven storytelling in a stylish thriller about talent, risk and the fine line between discipline and danger.

★★★★★ “lustrously beautiful and superbly realised modern take on the Camus classic” - Guardian.

In 1930s Algiers, a detached man drifts through life until a sudden act of violence places him under scrutiny. A stark, black and white adaptation of The Stranger, exploring indifference, identity and the tensions of colonial society.

Charlotte Brontë has a confession about how one sister became an idol, and the other one became known as the third sister. You know the one. No, not that one. The other, other one ... Anne.

This is not a story about well-behaved women. This is a story about the power of  words. It’s about sisters and sisterhood, love and jealousy, support and competition.

Sarah Gordon’s new play is an irreverent retelling of the life and legend of the Brontë sisters, and the story of sibling power dynamics that shaped their uneven rise to  fame.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd, on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.

An ageing artist’s legacy becomes the centre of a deceitful scheme, but an unexpected friendship complicates everything. The Christophers is a sharp, dark comedy about art, ambition and authenticity, led by Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel. ???? “The actors play off each other beautifully in an intimate London-set comedy drama” - Guardian

An ageing, once-celebrated painter finds his legacy under threat as his opportunistic children scheme to profit from his unfinished work. They enlist a struggling artist to secretly complete his iconic “Christophers” series, but the plan unravels as she forms an unexpected bond with the sharp and unpredictable Julian. As questions of authorship, authenticity and artistic integrity come to the fore, loyalties shift and ambitions collide. The Christophers is a darkly comic, character-driven story about creativity, exploitation and the uneasy line between homage and deception, anchored by two standout performances.

★★★★“The actors play off each other beautifully in an intimate London-set comedy drama” - Guardian