Bench Theatre, Havant, Hampshire

Now On

Concluding our 40th anniversary season is What The Butler Saw, by Joe Orton: Thurs 19th - Sat 28th November, 7:30p.m. at The Spring, Havant. Tickets £8, £6 concessions.

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Forthcoming Productions

We will start our 2010 season with Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness in February, and follow that with Arthur Miller's The Crucible in April. Then in July we will stage Macbeth by William Shakespeare.

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Did You See?

As part of our anniversary season, we revisited the 1980s in Lancashire with Road by Jim Cartwright, and performed A Higher Education, a brand new play simmering with unresolved tensions which received excellent reviews in The News and RemoteGoat

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Keep up to date...

to receive reminders of all Bench productions, email us at: info-subscribe@benchtheatre.org.uk

Next Club Night:
Thursday 3rd December, 8pm,

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In The News

The News Guide awards honours: Bench was named runner up in two categories Road (Best Amateur Production) and Alice Corrigan (Best Amateur Actress for Closer).

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Catch the Bench 40th Anniversary "mini" exhibition at Waterlooville Library from now until 30th November.

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Supernova 5 was warmly welcomed by the company for September 2010; we are now seeking playwrights, directors, and a producer to make it all happen! Please contact the Artistic Panel for more information

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Auditions Announced for The Crucible and for Macbeth, both to be held in January 2010. Anyone interested in auditioning for Macbeth should take a look at the director's notes on the show page.

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What The Butler Saw gets rave reviews; read them online at The News and Remote Goat, and you can also listen to the show trailer as broadcast on Angel Radio.

Bench Theatre is an award-winning theatre group committed to producing quality drama. Our base is in Havant (Hampshire, UK) where we hold our club nights and stage 5 productions each year at The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre and we like to get out and about around Hampshire.

For tickets to any Bench show at The Spring, call the box office on (023) 9247 2700.

Listed at the top of this page are some of the authors whose work we have performed in the last couple of years.

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Peter, Peter and Sarah rehearse for What The Butler Saw