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Our final Production for this Season is:
A Bunch of Amateurs
by Nick Newman and Ian Hislop
Sunday 17th to Saturday 23rd May 2026

This Show has now Sold Out

Fading Hollywood star Jefferson Steel comes to England to play King Lear in a Royal Shakespeare Company production at Stratford. It is only when he arrives that he finds his agent has actually booked him to appear with the Stratford Players, a small amateur group based in Stratford St. John in Suffolk. As the play unfolds we see how Dorothy, the Director and moving force behind the company, and its other members, cope, or don't, with this misunderstanding to great comedic effect. They are also joined by Jefferson's teenage daughter, who has been neglected by her father and now wants to make him pay for it.

The matinee starts at 2:30 on Sunday afternoon with the doors opening at 1.45pm.

The six evening performances start at 7:45pm with the doors opening at 7 o'clock.

Award-winning Australians back on stage in Nailsea:
This Machine Kills Fascists
and A Punk Opera
Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd July 2026

Many of you will recall two wonderful shows here in Union Street by Australian theatre company Nuworks back in 2024. The not-for-profit community theatre group gave us the ‘The Shoemaker of Havana’, an absorbing tale of the Cuban revolution, along with an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic children’s tale, ‘Treasure Island’.

We’re really pleased that Nuworks will be back at the Little Theatre in July with two new productions in their trademark, song-filled, epic style. Find out more online: www.nuworkstheatre.com They'll be here:

On Wednesday 1st July with ‘This Machine Kills Fascists’, a stage spectacle inspired by the life and work of legendary American folk singer and civil rights activist Woody Guthrie.

A faithful portrayal of Guthrie’s life and times, say Nuworks, which derives its force from the dramatic threads of his biography – his disdain of self-seeking politicians, big corporations and all those who sought to undermine the American Dream. It gets its title from the ‘This machine kills fascists’ legend scrawled across Guthrie’s guitar.

On Thursday 2nd July NuWorks will present ‘A Punk Opera’, an electrifying look back at the Britain of the ‘70s & ‘80s – Thatcher, miners’ strikes, race riots, unemployment, rubbish in the streets etc – when the phenomenon that was punk burst onto the scene.

Described as a musical comedy by Nuworks, it's a re-imagining of Bertolt Brecht’s ‘The Threepenny Opera’ (itself a re-working of John Gay’s ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ of 1728). There's a mix of songs from the punk era along with original music from Mark Howard.

Both shows – written and directed by David Dunn – are coming to Nailsea as part of Nuworks’ 2026 tour of the UK, which also takes in Buxton, Greater Manchester and Camden. The group has performed award-winning shows at renowned events such as the Edinburgh, Adelaide and Dublin Fringes.

Nuworks point out that the shows use some coarse contemporary language in dramatic context.

These two shows will start at 7:30pm (not our usual time of 7:45pm) with the doors opening at 7 o'clock.

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