Join us for live & local fringe theatre in aid of The Rosemary Foundation
What to Expect
A fringe festival of short theatrical productions and musical talent featuring performances of established plays and new work.
The 2024 Festival will take place in two venues at Churcher’s College, The Assembly or the Auditorium, priced at £10 per session.
A pay bar will be available for pre-show interval drinks accepting card and cash payments.
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What’s On (by act)
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Yasmina Reza’s brilliant, blistering Tony Award-winning comedy raises questions about the nature of art and friendship amongst three long-time friends, Serge, Marc, and Yvan. Serge, indulging his penchant for modern art, buys a large, expensive and largely white painting.
Starring John Lofthouse, Finn Thorpe and Theo West.
Date: Wednesday 28th August
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Assembly Hall
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Performed by Karon Bizzell.
Matinee raves are taking New York, London and other cities across the USA and UK by storm, and now we have ours in Petersfield! Everything you can want from a dance party where you can lose yourself on the dance floor and still be home in time for dinner. Karon has performed across the UK, Spain and Caribbean and fills the dancefloor every time she performs.
Dress for a party, there will be a bar with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and a quiet area for conversation when the music and dancing get too much!
Date: Thursday 29th August
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Assembly Hall
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A Sherlock Holmes radio play brought to you by Winton Players from their authentic recreation of a BBC radio studio from the late 1950’s. Aided by Dr Watson, Holmes uses all his detective ingenuity to solve a most dastardly murder.
Date: Thursday 29th August
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Assembly Hall
The Speckled Band is presented in tandem with Starch with an interval between the two shows. Entry to both shows is included with your £10 ticket
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A monologue by Geoff Saunders. Charles has been arrested for shoplifting. Was it a cry for help? He begins to wonder out loud, should he be rejoicing this first ever act of rebellion?
Performed by Tony Johnson who is returning following his sensational appearance last year as Gus Gascoigne in ‘Anorak of Fire’
Date: Thursday 29th August
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Assembly Hall
Starch is presented in tandem with The Speckled Band with an interval between the two shows. Entry to both shows is included with your £10 ticket
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Enter the world of Alan attending the ‘White Heterosexual Men Anonymous Group’, and confessing his trials, tribulations, dilemmas – and how he is coping. Unable to take this tour to Scotland, Ben will be premiering it at the prestigious Petersfield Fringe Festival!
Date: Thursday 29th August
Time: 8pm
Venue: Auditorium
This show is presented in tandem with All Sphincters Wide Open with an interval between the two shows. Entry to both shows is included with your £10 ticket
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Andy Barton appears as Hugh Jorgen - an hour of politically incorrect songs
“Covered just about all deviancies and perversions known to mankind.”
“Do not attend if easily alarmed or offended”.
“If you see this guy, you’ve only yourself to blame.”
Date: Thursday 29th August
Time: 8pm
Venue: Auditorium
This show is presented in tandem with The Adventures of a White Man in a Woke World with an internal between the two shows. Entry to both shows is included with your £10 ticket
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Directed by Laura Sheppard
Come and perform with us!
Join us for a captivating live play reading of Jules Verne's classic novel Around the World in 80 Days. This session is a unique form of theatre without sets or full costumes, allowing the story to come alive through the voices and expressions of the participants.
At the start, attendees will have the opportunity to be cast in various roles, ensuring everyone gets to participate. Scripts will be provided for each character, enabling a vibrant and dynamic performance. If you prefer, you can also join as an observer to enjoy the unfolding adventure.
Those wishing to combine this with the evening shows (A Chip in the Sugar and A tribute to Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket) starting at 7:30pm can purchase a combined show plus supper ticket for £30 to include a cold platter supper provided in the dining room between the play reading and evening show.
Play Reading Start Time: 4pm
Venue: Assembly Hall
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A classic Alan Bennet monologue performed by John Lofthouse telling the story of Graham, a middle-aged man who lives with his mother. Their comfortable existence is shaken to the core when Graham’s mother meets an old flame, who proposes marriage.
Date: Friday 30th August
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Auditorium
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Enjoy wonderful songs from Dame Hilda accompanied by Dr Evadne on the pianoforte, interspersed with conversation between these two elderly spinsters. Now living genteel lives in the village of Stackton Tressel, they celebrate their former careers on the provincial operatic stage. Performed by Jon Rees and John Lofthouse
Date: Friday 30th August
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Auditorium
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Lion & Unicorn bring us a medley of mediaeval song and drama including extracts from their award-winning production of The Canterbury Tales, and a not-quite-traditional bawdy mummers play, in what is certain to be an immersive theatrical experience for people of all ages.
Date: Saturday 31st August
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Auditorium
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An Agatha Christie radio play brought to you by Winton Players from their authentic recreation of a BBC radio studio from the late 1950’s. Set in a nightclub, it features the renowned Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. See if you can guess who the murderer is!
Date: Saturday 31st August
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Assembly Hall
Yellow Iris is presented in tandem with Contractions with an interval between the two shows. Entry to both shows is included with your £10 ticket
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An ink-black comedy by Mike Bartlett - about the boundaries between work and play. Emma's been seeing Darren. She thinks she's in love. The manager thinks she's in breach of contract. Performed by Lion & Unicorn's Kat Wootton and Miri Bradder.
Date: Saturday 31st August
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Assembly Hall
Contractions is presented in tandem with Yellow Iris with an interval between the two shows. Entry to both shows is included with your £10 ticket
What’s On (by date)
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Art, by Yasmina Reza’s
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Matinee Rave with 60’s to ‘80’s music performed by Karon Bizzell.
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In the Assembly Hall - The Speckled Band & Starch
In the Auditorium - The Adventures of a White Man in a Woke World & All sphincters Wide Open (an hour of politically incorrect songs)
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In the Assembly Hall - Play Reading - Around the World in 80 Days
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In the Auditorium - A Chip in the Sugar & A tribute to Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket
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In the Auditorium - Mediaeval Mahem
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In the Assembly Hall - Yellow Iris & Contractions
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Saturday 2 September - 7:30pm
Act 1: Butter in a Lordly Dish – An Agatha Christie radio play presented ‘from the radio studio’ by Winton Players
Act 2: The Movie Star, The Mother and The Mystic, written by and starring Alicia Novak.
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Friday 1 September - 7:30pm
Act 1: Drinking Companion from ‘Confusions’ by Alan Ayckbourn presented by CCADS
Act 2: Her Big Chance – An Alan Bennet one woman play, starring Charlotte Thomas
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Thursday 31 August 2023
Act 1: Personal Call – An Agatha Christie radio play presented ‘from the radio studio’ by Winton Players
Act 2: Anorak of Fire - The Life and Times of Gus Gascoigne, starring Tony Johnson