drama

Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th August 2017, 8:00pm
All Tickets £18.00*

Doors open 7:00pm
John O’Connell pre-show classical guitar performance 7:00pm - 7:45pm

The Blue Park Theatre Company proudly presents a celebration of Alan Ball, charting the great man’s life as a wily boy with ambitions of playing on the world stage.

Stage Play: Written by Kenny O’Connell
Narrated Poetry: Written by Bobby Parry
Song: ‘The Ball of Fire’ Written by: Kenny O’Connell & Bobby Parry

Experience the life and times of the great Alan Ball, beautifully played out through a dramatization that recounts his early struggles on the road to becoming a professional footballer. Ex-Everton legend Ronnie Goodlass poetically narrates the play tracing every step of Alan’s journey; performed by a talented cast that will keep you captivated throughout.

His family have endorsed this play to give Alan’s fans the world over a chance to know the real man within the legend. Intertwined with his private life, this play will touch your heart and soul.

“From a smitten fan who went on to clean Alan’s boots, then becoming a team mate both in life and of course football” - Ronny Goodlass

“A fantastic tribute to my godfather Alan Ball, my father Eddie Cavanagh would be so proud" - Alan Ball Cavanagh

“The best player that I have ever played alongside for club and country, so looking forward to this play” - Joe Royle

*Includes a £1.50 per ticket fee. Fees capped at the first 8 tickets. No fees to Friends of the Floral.

Friday 27th October 2017, 7:30pm
Tickets £12.00* (£10.00* conc)

Be chilled by the Queens of Victorian horror fiction with our latest theatrical portmanteau of vintage blood-curdlers! Morbid Curiosities features all-new adaptations of The Yellow Wallpaper, The Old Nurse's Story and John Charrington's Wedding. Allow the ghouls of the nineteenth-century to crawl from their crypts, as we show how the female of the species can be even deadlier than the male...

Amy Bullock and Sarah Gordon star in this original stage production. The show is written by Jonathan Goodwin and directed by Gary Archer.

*Includes a £1.50 per ticket fee. Fees capped at the first 8 tickets. No fees to Friends of the Floral.

Monday 30th & Tuesday 31st October 2017, 7:00pm
Monday 27th & Tuesday 28th November 2017, 7:00pm
Tickets £11.00* (£7.00 conc)
Group discounts available, please ask

Shakespeare Schools Foundation is proud to present the world’s largest youth drama festival at The Floral Pavilion Theatre.

Join us on 30th – 31st October and 27th - 28th November for a series of unique Shakespeare productions staged by your schools.

Whether you are a parent, friend or another local school, we invite you to an exhilarating evening of theatre where you will see Shakespeare’s stories brought to life like never before.

Details of the schools performing at The Floral Pavilion Theatre can be found on SSF’s website: shakespeareschools.org/the-festival

“Every child in every school ought to have the chance to experience this magical process. To bring the enchantment of Shakespeare to thousands of children – there’s no more magical process in the whole of education. Long live the Shakespeare Schools Festival!” Philip Pullman, Author and SSF Patron

SSF is a cultural education charity, transforming lives through the unique power of Shakespeare. In the celebratory finale of their Festival journey, 30,000 young people from primary, secondary and special schools nationwide will unite on their local professional stage in thrilling performance evenings. It promises to be the most exciting Festival yet!

*Includes a £1.50 per ticket fee. Fees capped at the first 8 tickets. No fees to Friends of the Floral.

Monday 6th to Saturday 11th November 2017, 7:30pm
Matinee performances at 2:30pm on Wednesday and Saturday.
Tickets from £24.00* to £29.00*
Limited quantities of concession tickets are available on Monday to Wednesday evenings - Book early to avoid disappointment.

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‘A FIVE STAR ‘WHO DUNNIT’ - THE GUILDFORD NEWS
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‘AN EXCELLENT EVENING’S ENTERTAINMENT’ - ESSENTIAL SURREY

Eunice struggles to fit in. When she joins a wealthy family as their housekeeper the very reason for her awkwardness, long hidden and deeply buried, leads to a terrible tale of murder in cold blood - on Valentine’s Day. Ruth Rendell’s brilliant plot unravels a lifetime of deceit, and cover-ups which, when revealed, brings a shocking revelation almost as grizzly as murder itself.

Building on the phenomenal decade-long success of The Agatha Christie Theatre Company, which sold over two million tickets and continually played to packed houses around the UK, Bill Kenwright presents a new production adapted from one of the most celebrated works of the writer often hailed as the successor to Agatha Christie.

Credited with revitalising the mystery genre, Ruth Rendell was first published in 1964 her prolific output included film and TV as well as 80 novels.

*Includes a £1.50 per ticket fee. Fees capped at the first 8 tickets. No fees to Friends of the Floral.

Thursday 7th December 2017, 7:30pm
Tickets £12.00* (£10.00* conc)

In the macabre tradition of the BBC's classic 1970s programme, Ghost Stories for Christmas is a theatre show featuring original spine-chillers in a vintage vein. An evening of vengeful revenants, restless spirits and malevolent ghouls is guaranteed for those brave enough to join us!



Acclaimed actor Jonathan Goodwin stars in this show, written by himself and directed with macabre aplomb by Gary Archer.

*Includes a £1.50 per ticket fee. Fees capped at the first 8 tickets. No fees to Friends of the Floral.

Tuesday 13th to Saturday 17th February 2018, 7:30pm
Matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2:30pm
Tickets From £22.00* to £27.00*

Middle Ground Theatre Company Ltd presents
GALLOWGLASS by RUTH RENDELL (writing as Barbara Vine)

A World Stage Premiere.
From the pen of one of the world's greatest thriller writers. When Sandor snatched little Joe from the path of a London tube train, he was quick to make clear the terms of the rescue. "I saved your life", he told the homeless youngster, "so your life belongs to me now".

Sandor began to tell him a fairy-tale: an aging prince, a kidnapped princess chained by one ankle, a missed rendezvous... But what did this mysterious story have to do with Sandor? Joe only understood his own role - he was a Gallowglass, the servant of a chief...

"Of all living writers, she can enter most convincingly into the criminal, or even pathological, mind" - John Mortimer Sunday Times
"A real valentine from hell" - Time Out
"Marvellously gripping....tense, compulsive and beautifully written" - Sunday Express
"A weird, black, compelling story about those who wish to serve, and those who use their subservience" - Antonia Fraser Sunday Times
"Gallowglass is RUTH RENDELL (Barbara Vine) at her best... it is compulsive reading; an unsettling narrative that casts eerie shadows into the unknown" - Woman's Journal
"Beautifully composed RUTH RENDELL writing as Barbara Vine has cast her fertile imagination into the realm of the fairy-tale, and come up with a present-day parallel encompassing obsession, delinquency and romance" - The Times Literary Supplement

*Includes a £1.50 per ticket fee. Fees capped at the first 8 tickets. No fees to Friends of the Floral.