Coming up at The Priory
With around 7 in house productions produced by Priory members each year, plus countless more external organisations hosting events in our spaces, there’s something for everyone to enjoy at The Priory!
We regularly add to our upcoming list as more gets booked into our calendar, so make sure you check back regularly to secure your tickets before they’re gone!
Dick Whittington
Pack up your hanky and join daring Dick Whittington and his trusty cat on their quest for fame and fortune. Their magical rags to riches tale takes us on a journey to London where the streets are (apparently) paved with gold.
The legendary Priory panto returns full of sparkle, excitement and fun. Our hero’s incredible adventure takes him onto the High Seas, into battle with the evil King Rat and see him fall head over heels in love with his boss’s daughter Alice. All the while the magical Bells are singing out his destiny – to become Mayor of London!
Full of fun, singing and lots of action – we promise to have you buzzing from a fantastic, festive night out.
Ultimate Elton
Winner of the National Tribute Music Awards 2013, 2016 and 2017. A lifelong Elton John fan, Paul Bacon first started singing and performing Elton’s songs whilst studying Performing Arts at University in the early 1980’s. With an extraordinarily similar singing voice to Sir Elton’s, Paul is able to draw on an amazing back catalogue of hits to produce a truly wonderful celebration of Elton’s music.
Elton John’s extraordinary repertoire means that Ultimate Elton can serenade an audience with some of the most beautiful ballads ever written, including Your Song, Candle in the Wind, Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me, Sacrifice and Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word. He can also change the pace and get people up dancing with classics like Crocodile Rock, I’m Still Standing, The Bitch is Back and Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting.
Fleetwood Machine
A lovingly-crafted, musically-authentic and passionately-performed celebration of one of the greatest bands in history, Fleetwood Mac!
Fleetwood Machine stay true to the spirit and sound of the original music, replicating the unique sounds of Lindsey Buckingham & Peter Green’s guitars, the intricate drum patterns of Mick Fleetwood and the haunting vocal harmonies that are Fleetwood Mac’s trademark!
With a wide range of songs to show the incredible diversity of this fabulous catalogue, Fleetwood Machine showcase all of the beloved mega-hits plus some brilliant, less well-known songs from the Peter Green era to excite even the most discerning fans!
Curtains
Curtains is a musical send-up set in 1959 Boston, Massachusetts and follows the fallout when Jessica Cranshaw, the supremely untalented star of Robbin' Hood of the Old West is murdered during her opening night curtain call.
It is up to Lt. Frank Cioffi, a police detective who moonlights as a musical theatre fan, to save the show, solve the case, and maybe even find love, without getting killed himself.
Packed with glorious tunes and a witty, charming script filled with delightful characters, Curtains will have you laughing until the last curtain falls!
The original Broadway production garnered 8 nominations at the 2007 Tony Awards.
Waiting for God
Thrown together by circumstance, two spirited residents of Bayview Retirement Village, a stuffy seniors home where stepping out of line is strictly frowned upon, form an alliance and begin to give the home's oppressive management a run for their money
All the favourite characters from the original series are re- imagined, facing the challenges that come with growing old disgracefully in the era of the silver surfer.
This British sitcom aired originally on BBC1 from 1990 to 1994.
StingChronicity
StingChronicity present a theatre show like no other, telling the story of Sting’s career — starting with the early days of The Police, charting their rise and fall, through to Sting’s highly successful solo period in the ’80s and ’90s, and The Police’s eventual reunion in 2007.
The look, the sound, the equipment, the musicianship... rarely do you find a tribute where each one of these individual components has been painstakingly addressed in just as much detail as the last.
The Police Academy and The Sting Operation, however, do exactly that. ‘Roxanne’, ‘Every Breath You Take’, ‘Englishman in New York’ and ‘Fields of Gold’ are just a few of the highlights in a set that could legitimately be described as ‘all killer, no filler’.
And Then There Were None
Ten strangers gather at the mansion on Soldier Island, just off the coast of Devon. They are invited under a variety of pretences: for employment, for a detective case, or just for a good time. Before the party truly gets under way, a recording plays that accuses each guest of murder. Baffled, these strangers realize that they have no idea who their host is, and when the first guest is murdered, they understand that they have been brought to the island by a maniac who intends to dispense his own form of justice.
Who is the killer? And who will survive this gathering and make it off the island? As time goes by, and characters fall away in accordance with the lines of a sinister nursery rhyme, it is clear that the survivors can trust no one.
And Then There Were None is a mystery thriller that set the bar for the “whodunnit” genre.
Blithe Spirit
The fussy and cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine finds himself literally haunted when an eccentric medium – Madame Arcati – inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, Elvira, at a séance. When she appears, visible only to Charles, and determined to sabotage his current marriage to Ruth, life – and the afterlife – get complicated.
Things go rapidly downhill as a baffled Charles watches his dead wife and his living wife fight over him, but who will win?
Intensely funny, Blithe Spirit combines farce, emotion and wit to great effect.