Port Out, Starboard Home!
By Richard James
Port Out, Starboard Home! is a play set on a cruise ship. Get ready to set sail on a heart warming comedy adventure! Miriam is determined to help her son Stewart find "Miss Right" by taking him on a cruise—but is that what he truly wants? Jackie boards the ship for "health reasons," though she's really just sick of her husband. Meanwhile, Amanda, a once-famous actress, is willing to take any job to stay afloat. Join Wayne, the ship's ever-optimistic Entertainments Officer, as he juggles the chaos, keeping everything (and everyone) in check while trying to make sense of the madness.
Children Of The Sea
By Mike Gibb
Children of the Sea is a play based upon the astonishing true story of a small fishing town in the 1880s whose fight against the state and church inevitably leads to dire consequences. Spanning a week in the lives of one family within the close knit community, haunted by the ghosts of the past, frustrated by the pressures of bringing home the harvest of the sea, and above all, desperate for the bad weather to break, to be able to get to sea again. In Children of the Sea, Mike Gibb has brought together a memorable play, full of humour of the time, drama, pathos and high emotion.
Verdict
By Agatha Christie
Verdict is a play that sees Karl Hendryk, a brilliant professor who, with his wife and her cousin, has fled persecution in his homeland and finds himself ensconced in London. The play concerns itself with the relationships the professor has with the women in his life. His Anya, who is suffering from a progressively debilitating disease, her cousin and carer, Lisa, and Helen Rollander, a spoiled student who takes up private lessons with the professor.
A Bolt From The Blue
By David Tristram
A Bolt from the Blue is a gem of a comedy from the prolific pen of David Tristram. It tells the story of Edward who is struck by lightning but survives, and the peculiar turns that his life takes afterwards. It is well plotted and full of surprises with plenty of laughs, both physical and verbal, along the way. The story is told by two narrators and many of the actors take on multiple roles.
Confusions
By Alan Aykbourn
Confusions is a hilariously Chaotic play that interweaves five seemingly unrelated stories, each with its own set of eccentric characters and unexpected twists. From a harried housewife and her nosey neighbour to a disastrous village fete and a park bench encounter gone wrong, this play will keep you on the edge of your seat with laughter, drama and plenty of surprises. Highbury players performed four stories: Mother Figure, Between Mouthfuls, Gosforth's Fete and a talk in the park.