Season 2013-2014

Adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus

Followed by afterpiece Polly Honeycombe

An afterpiece performed after Crime & Punishment

Adapted by Glyn Robbins

Double bill with Gosforth's Fete

Double bill with The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

This moving fact based drama traces the effect on the Kipling family of the death of their only son in the First World War. It is particularly poignant and appropriate as 2014 is the 100th Anniversary of the beginning of that conflict.

In this bleakly comic modern classic, written in 1980, Bennett foresees the advent of the heritage industry and celebrity television shows. Wonderfully funny, it is also strange, sad and disturbing.

Do we ever know we may be having the time of our life, or can it only be judged retrospectively?