Sep 24, 2025
Tickets are selling fast for our show A Brief Encounter with Noël Coward.
We’re staging two short Coward plays at the Broadbent Theatre in Wickenby from 9th to 11th October 2025.
Still Life was later turned into the classic black and white movie Brief Encounter, a story of unrequited love set in a railway station tearoom.
Come Into the Garden Maud takes place in a luxury hotel in Switzerland but the themes of love, relationships and temptation are similar.
We’ve got a wonderful cast and the costumes are to die for! Tickets cost £13 (£12 concessions) and can be purchased online at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/broadbent/e-belqyo or by calling the box office on 0333 666 3366.
Visit this page for details of the cast.
Sep 24, 2025
Our spring 2026 production will be The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter, and open auditions will take place next month.
Auditions will be held on Tuesday 21st October 2025 at St Mary Le Wigford Church Hall, Lincoln LN5 7EQ (next to the railway station) at 7.30pm.
Dates for the production are 23rd to 25th April 2026 at the Broadbent Theatre in Wickenby.
The Birthday Party is set in a run-down boarding house in a seaside town not far from London in the late 1950s. The owners Petey and Meg have one lodger, Stanley, until two sinister strangers arrive and decide to arrange a birthday party for Stanley.
Roles and playing ages:
Petey Boles 50s/60s
Meg Boles 50s/60s
Stanley Webber 30s/40s
Lulu (a neighbour) 20s/30s
Goldberg 40s/50s
McCann 30s – 50s (Irish accent)
Everyone is welcome to audition, even if you’ve never acted with us before. There’s no need to prepare anything, but you should familiarise yourself with the play before the audition.
If you’re interested in auditioning but can’t attend on the date above, please email the director Julia Ross.
Jul 11, 2025
There was a good turnout at our annual meeting on 10th July, where the present committee was re-elected unopposed:
Jez Ashberry (Chairman)
Su Toogood (Secretary)
Fraya Grove (Treasurer)
Patrick Markham (Technical)
Anita Quigley
Vicky Ashberry
Minutes of the meeting will be circulated to everyone on our members’ mailing list. If you’d like to be added to the list, please send an email to our Secretary, Su Toogood.
Jul 6, 2025
Once again it’s time for our annual meeting, held as usual in the Victoria Pub, Union Road, Lincoln LN1 3BJ at 7.30pm on Thursday 10th July 2025.
If you’re interested in standing for the committee, please let us know by sending us an email.
All are welcome, whether existing members or newcomers, and the bar will be open!
Agenda
- Apologies for absence
- Minutes of previous meeting held 7th January 2025 and previously circulated
- Matters arising
- Chair’s report
- Treasurer’s report
- Secretary’s report
- Election of Committee
- The Father
- Progress report: A Brief Encounter with Noël Coward
- Future productions
- Play readings
- Any other business
We hope to see you there!
May 8, 2025
By popular request, we’re embarking on another summer season of monthly pay readings!
For our first get-together in May we’ll be reading Arcadia by playwright Tom Stoppard, which explores the relationship between past and present, order and disorder, certainty and uncertainty. It has been praised by many critics as the finest play from “one of the most significant contemporary playwrights” in the English language.
Join us in the meeting room in The Victoria pub, Union Road, Lincoln LN1 3BJ on Tuesday 27th May at 7.30pm to read in or just listen. Buy a drink at the bar and then head for the stairs at the back of the pub! Everyone is welcome, whether you’re a member or not.
We aim to stage a play reading on a Tuesday evening once a month throughout the summer. If you’ve got any suggestions for plays to read, please let us know!
And remember, these are informal readings, not auditions, so don’t be shy!
Apr 29, 2025
Our annual meeting for 2025 will take place on Thursday 10th July at 7.30pm in the upstairs function room at the Victoria pub in Lincoln.
It’s your chance to discuss future productions and performance venues and elect a new committee for the following year.
If you’re new to the company it’s also a great opportunity to get to know us! Members and non-members are all welcome.
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