Life and Beth by Alan Ayckbourn (Comedy)

On sale until 13th February 2027. See all five plays of our 2027 season for just £48: that’s one play free, with no booking fees. Life and Beth, Pretzels For Dinner, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville, Drinking Habits and Count Dracula. A perfect Christmas present for a theatre lover.

20th - 24th April 2027. A bitter-sweet comedy looking at life through the eyes of Anne Johnson. Married to Bill for thirty-five years, the highlight of her life is her weekly shop at Asda. She has devoted her adult life to being a wife and a mother, and then suddenly she finds herself to be a woman on her own.

15th - 19th June 2027. The heirs of the Baskerville family are dying one by one on the misty moors of Devonshire. Is it a supernatural hound or a cunning killer? Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson race to save young Sir Henry, while three actors play over forty characters in Ken Ludwig’s breakneck comic mystery.

10th - 14th August 2027. To save their convent from closure, Sister Philamena and Sister Augusta are secretly making prize-winning wine behind the Mother Superior’s back. When two reporters go undercover as a priest and a nun to get the scoop, mistaken identities, hidden bottles and holy panic turn the convent upside down.

26th - 30th October 2027. At Dr Seward’s asylum north of London, young Mina is fading away, and two small marks on her throat point to a terrifying cause. Professor Van Helsing arrives to hunt down the creature responsible, but the charming new neighbour may be closer than anyone thinks. Ted Tiller’s classic thriller, with chills and laughs in equal measure.