October 2022 - Ladies' Day

Life is one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome from Hull - Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda. But their fortunes are set to change when they head to Ladies Day at the races, when Royal Ascot is relocated to York for one year. Factory hairnets make way for fascinators as the four friends hit the races for an unforgettable day out.

Secrets are spilled with the champagne and friendships are tested to the limit. Yet as the day unfolds and tempers fray, their accumulator bet keeps quietly winning. If their luck and their nerve holds, the ladies could could hit the jackpot – and more.

"Ladies' Day" by Amanda Whittington

Director: Phil Gascoyne

Location: Sheffield Library Theatre

Dates: 18th - 22nd October 2022

Tickets: £9 / £10

FlatSpin is part of the Damsels In Distress trilogy: when a young woman pretends to be someone she is not, she is inadvertently drawn into a police sting to catch a criminal. But no-one is quite as they appear...

A night of romance in her luxurious riverside apartment with the good-looking stranger from next door. How can Joanna possibly go wrong? Except the flat isn't hers, her name isn't Joanna, it's Rosie (she's an actress), and heaven knows what the good-looking stranger is really after. Instead of romance comes considerable danger ... Rosie's only way out is to play the role to the end. 

"Flatspin" by Alan Ayckbourn

Director: Rod Duncan

Location: Sheffield Library Theatre

Dates: 28th June - 2nd July 2022

Tickets: £9 / £10

 Never has this master of farce been frenetically funnier! Henry A. Perkins, a mild mannered C.P. A, accidentally picks up the wrong briefcase one full of money. Henry assumes it is illicit cash and he decides to keep it. Knowing that the former owner must have his briefcase, he rushes home to book one way fares to Barcelona. He tells his confused wife to leave everything behind; if she doesn't like Barcelona, they can go to Bali. In fact, they can buy Bali! The doorbell rings as they wait for their taxi. The police detective at the door thinks Henry was soliciting in the men's room of the local pub actually, he was sitting in the loo counting the cash. The bell rings again. Another detective arrives thinking Henry is dead; a man with bullet holes in his head and Henry's briefcase were found in the Thames. Henry's inept attempts to extricate himself from this impossible situation lead to increasingly hysterical situations. 

"Funny Money" by Ray Cooney

Director: Marcus Newman

Location: Sheffield Library Theatre

Dates: 11th - 15th February 2020

Tickets: £9/ £10