Category: Drama

2013

An Inspector Calls

Wimborne Drama,

17th October, 201323rd October, 2023

A tense and uncomfortable investigation by an all-knowing Inspector through which the Birling family discover that they are all in fact caught up in a poor girl’s death.

2012

Enchanted April

Wimborne Drama,

1st March, 201223rd October, 2023

Feeling lost in the shadows of marriage and forgotten in the rush of 1920s post-war society, two London housewives pool their savings to rent a villa in Italy for a ladies-only holiday away.

2009

Steel Magnolias

Wimborne Drama,

20th October, 200923rd October, 2023

Steel Magnolias is both a comedy and a drama as it recounts the real life story of a woman who is a Type 1 diabetic and risks everything to give birth to her own child.

2008

Great Expectations

Wimborne Drama,

19th October, 200823rd October, 2023

Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance.

2007

Journey’s End

Wimborne Drama,

1st October, 200723rd October, 2023

In the trenches during WW1 Lieutenant Raleigh, discovers that Captain Stanhope, his former childhood friend and hero, has changed almost beyond recognition.

2005

Murder in the Cathedral

Wimborne Drama,

25th May, 200523rd October, 2023

This play by one of the world’s greatest poets tells of the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket who, though tempted, refuses to seize temporal control of England.

2005

Flesh and Blood

Wimborne Drama,

9th February, 200523rd October, 2023

Two brothers and a sister are marooned on a remote farm after their father’s death. They are thrown into a state of panic when one of them makes a bid for freedom.

2003

Far From The Madding Crowd

Wimborne Drama,

21st May, 200323rd October, 2023

The passion, melodrama, earthy humour and strong, gripping plot of Thomas Hardy’s novel are vividly conveyed in Matthew White’s fast-moving and admirably economical adaptation.

2003

The Lion in Winter

Wimborne Drama,

12th February, 200323rd October, 2023

King Henry, his wife Eleanor, whom he has kept imprisoned in a tower for the past ten years; and their three sons, vye for the privilege of being named heir to the English throne.

2002

An Inspector Calls

Wimborne Drama,

20th February, 200223rd October, 2023

A tense and uncomfortable investigation by an all-knowing Inspector through which the Birling family discover that they are all in fact caught up in a poor girl’s death.