2025 has been a wonderfully busy year of productions for us.
We kicked off in March with Harold Pinter’s rarely-seen comedy of menace The Hothouse, we stormed ahead with an ’80s-themed take on Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor in June–July, and we’ll be closing out with Blackadder Goes Forth in November.
In 2026, we will be performing Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Bellerby Studio, G-Live, in March (keep an eye out for auditions in October ’25); and in July we will be performing The Revenger’s Tragedy at the Castle Keep (auditions in January).
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Our November production of Blackadder Goes Forth has been cast. The enlisted personnel are as follows:
Captain Edmund Blackadder . . . . Sam Gould
Lieutenant George . . . . . . . . Alex Healy
Captain Darling . . . . . . . . . Matt Gibbons
Private Baldrick . . . . . . . . Alex Gold
General Melchett . . . . . . . . Steve Simmonds
Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amy Scott/Alice Gray
Field Marshall Haig . . . . . . . Phil Snell/David Clegg
Perkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graham Leverton
Private Robinson . . . . . . . . Mike Cutchey
Private Frazer . . . . . . . . . Rick Buckman-Drage
In addition to the enlisted personnel, the officers in charge of the production will be Jenny Swift as director, with Jen Haynes assisting her, Gustav as Speckled Jim, and Leo Lyon doing lighting and sound.
Details of the operation are as follows:
We have a cunning plan for our November production...
It's 1917. The British and German armies are dug into the trenches, waiting to go over the top. Except, that is, Captain Edmund Blackadder, who is trying to find ingenious (and hilarious) ways to avoid just that!
Helped, or hindered, by his faithful batman Baldrick and Lieutenant George!
Written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, this is the final of the four award winning Blackadder TV series and we will be doing three episodes of the series at The Star Inn in November.
It'll all be over before Christmas.
