Drama - ARCHIVE
14 Jun - 19 Jun
Inside Job *2010*
Christopher Villiers (Emmerdale), Michelle Morris (The Knock) and Matt Healy (Emmerdale) star in this classic thriller. On the Costa del Sol, a profe...
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27 May - 12 Jun
King David - Man of Blood *2010*
Lucifer makes a wager with God and sets out to test the loyalty of his favourite son, King David, Man of Blood. David's eyes are opened and for the fi...
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4 May - 8 May
Spike Milligans' Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall *2010*
Spike Milligan’s celebrated war memoirs arrive in Colchester in this gloriously absurd and exuberant hit comedy drama, which has had both audiences an...
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15 Apr - 1 May
Under Milk Wood *2010*
A funny and touching tale about a day and night in the life of the extraordinary residents of Llareggub (read it backwards!), an imaginary small Welsh...
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5 Apr - 10 Apr
Frankie & Johnny in the Clair De Lune *2010*
International film stars Kelly McGillis (Top Gun, The Accused, Witness) and Rolf Saxon (Mission: Impossible, Entrapment) star in this lavish new produ...
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22 Mar - 27 Mar
Dad's Army Marches On *2010*
The boys are back in town! To celebrate 70 years of the Home Guard, Dad’s Army is returning to the stage with a brand new production of the classic si...
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18 Mar - 20 Mar
Huck *2010*
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s all-time classic novel of taking chances and pushing boundaries, is brought crashing onto the stage b...
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25 Feb - 13 Mar
Romeo and Juliet *2010*
The Mercury Theatre Company unites with the critically acclaimed seven-piece Astillero Tango Orchestra and international actors to perform Romeo & Jul...
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10 Feb - 20 Feb
The Secret of Sherlock Holmes *2010*
From the producer and director that brought you the sensational The Hound of the Baskervilles. The Secret of Sherlock Holmes takes you on a thrilling...
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22 Jan - 23 Jan
The Furies / Land of the Dead / Helter Skelter *2010*
Following their successful visits to The Mercury with Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur’an and Wedding Day at The Cro-Magnons, Dialogue retu...
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18 Jan - 23 Jan
Fatal Encounter *2010*
Nicholas Ball, who shot to fame as the title role in Hazell and more recently as the gangster Terry Bates in EastEnders, stars alongside well-loved Br...
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19 Nov - 28 Nov
Through the Leaves *2009*
Mercury Theatre Company founder and Artistic Director, Dee Evans, performs as an actor for the first time for the Company in this intimate portrayal o...
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12 Nov - 14 Nov
The Glass Mountain *2009*
In a world of diverging paths and rocky roads, which way do you choose to travel? The Glass Mountain tells the story of Olek, Polish baker by day,...
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5 Nov - 21 Nov
Nora *2009*
Revered film-maker Ingmar Bergman's version of Ibsen's controversial 19th Century classic play A Doll's House, is a psychological and revelatory drama...
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29 Oct - 29 Oct
Call Mr Robeson *2009*
In the year of Obama comes the true and compelling story of another remarkable Black American, Paul Robeson, world famous actor and singer of the earl...
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22 Oct - 24 Oct
2nd May 1997 *2009*
2nd May 1997. The world changes overnight. A great man sweeps to power as a mighty dynasty crumbles. Amidst the euphoria and despair, three deeply pe...
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16 Sep - 17 Sep
Re:Design *2009*
150 years after Charles Darwin first presented his theory to fellow scientists and amidst year-long Darwin celebrations in 2009, Re:Design is a fascin...
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28 Aug - 29 Aug
A Midsummer Night’s Dream *2009*
Midsummer’s Eve. Fairies and hobgoblins are about and at their most powerful. Out to create mischief. Starry-eyed lovers and some rank amateurs rehear...
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27 Aug - 29 Aug
Much Ado About Nothing *2009*
Can men and women ever just be friends? Does love conquer all? And in the battle of the sexes just how bloody can it get? A pair of lovers; Claudio ...
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13 Jul - 18 Jul
Write Me A Murder *2009*
Former EastEnders star, Leslie Grantham will be joined by Paul Opacic (Bad Girls), Helen Weir and Christopher Villiers (Emmerdale) in a thriller with ...
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6 Jul
Gertrude’s Secret *2009*
Actress and Model Lisa Faulkner and Helen Fraser, best known for playing Bad Girls’ Sylvia “Bodybag” Hollamby, star in this hilarious but unnerving sh...
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10 Jun - 20 Jun
Deceptions *2009*
Acclaimed writer Paul Wheeler’s new play is the ultimate mind game taking you in to a dark and terrifying world where deception is the ruling force. ...
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17 Apr - 2 May
The Lonesome West *2009*
A gleeful and incorrigible take on the dark joys of man’s inhumanity to man, The Lonesome West tells the story of the Connor brothers. They live in Le...
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11 Apr
Private Peaceful *2009*
Private Tommo Peaceful, a young and naively innocent soldier of the First World War, looks back on his rich, but all too short life, before facing the...
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23 Mar - 28 Mar
Catastrophic Sex Music *2009*
A MERCURY THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION IN THE MERCURY STUDIO THEATRE A short, sharp, shocking piece of new theatre described by the author as Smash H...
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24 Feb - 7 Mar
The Lifesavers *2009*
A MERCURY THEATRE COMPANY AND THEATRE503 PRODUCTION IN THE MERCURY STUDIO THEATRE Suppose none of us could be trusted with the care of our children...
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11 Feb - 21 Feb
A Song at Twilight *2009*
Classic Coward at its best! Razor-sharp wit and sumptuous settings, compelling and poignant story-telling, A Song at Twilight is one of Coward’s fina...
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19 Jan - 23 Jan
The Holly & the Ivy *2009*
Set in a Norfolk vicarage on Christmas Eve 1947, the vicar's family gather for the festive season. Peace and goodwill radiates from the warmhearted el...
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30 Oct - 15 Nov
David Copperfield *2008*
Featuring many of Dickens’ famous characters from the impecunious Mr Micawber, the good hearted Peggotty, the ever-so ’umble Uriah Heep to the egotist...
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16 Oct - 18 Oct
The Boy with the Bomb in his Crisps *2008*
A brand new play for anyone who has ever been the new kid on the block, based on true stories of local newcomers that will surprise and delight you. ...
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1 Sep - 6 Sep
Don't Look Now *2008*
Filmed in 1973 with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland - what begins as a moving examination of grief becomes a chilling tale with a dark and terrif...
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21 Jul - 22 Jul
Charlie Victor Romeo *2008*
A unique, riveting and loud performance derived entirely from the 'Black Box' transcripts of real-life airline emergencies. Charlie Victor Romeo is a ...
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24 Jun - 28 Jun
Two - *2008*
We are delighted that Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds will be taking the Mercury Theatre Company production of TWO as part of their drama season from T...
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30 May - 14 Jun
IPH... from the Greek Iphigeneia in Aulis by Euripides *2008*
In this epic and ancient tale, Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek Army, a Father and a King, is faced with the most horrible moral dilemma. At the bri...
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19 May - 24 May
The 39 Steps *2008*
Direct from the West End and Broadway comes Alfred Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller, The 39 Steps, brilliantly and hilariously recreated as the smash ...
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17 Apr - 3 May
Journey’s End *2008*
Based upon his own experiences of life in the trenches, RC Sherriff’s Journey’s End is a forthright account of the effect of war on a small company of...
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25 Mar - 29 Mar
A Touch of Danger *2008*
From the master of thrillers comes a story that will keep audiences poised on the edge of their seats from start to finish. When friends of best-sell...
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18 Feb - 23 Feb
The Late Edwina Black *2008*
Stephen McGann, who set female hearts racing as love rat Sean in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale and Stephen Beckett (Coronation Street, The Bill) star i...
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7 Feb - 16 Feb
Brief Lives *2008*
One of the greatest performances of all time returns to the stage for a strictly limited season. Join John Aubrey, reclusive antiquarian, as he takes...
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7 Nov - 24 Nov
Julius Caesar *2007*
On a night “that thunders, lightens, opens graves and roars”, with fire dropping from the sky, and prophecies of doom abounding, a plot unfolds to ass...
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18 Oct - 3 Nov
Coriolanus *2007*
Heroic general Caius Martius, recently crowned Coriolanus, cannot bring himself to beg for votes from a fickle public. A killing machine at war, he ca...
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12 Sep - 22 Sep
Visiting Mr. Green *2007*
Acclaimed actor Warren Mitchell makes a rare stage appearance in this multi award-winning and globally renowned play making this one of the hottest th...
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20 Aug - 25 Aug
Dangerous Corner *2007*
Guests are enjoying a weekend in the country home of Robert and Freda Caplan when someone produces a musical cigarette-box that belonged to Robert’s d...
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1 Jun - 16 Jun
Small Miracle *2007*
If the Kumars and Father Ted spent a week caravanning you’d end up with something like Small Miracle. Mercury Theatre Company member Neil D’Souza’s sp...
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21 May - 26 May
Dial M for Murder *2007*
James MacPherson (Taggart), Faye Tozer (Steps), Richard Walsh (London’s Burning) and Tom Butcher (Doctors) star in this classic 1950s thriller. Tony ...
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25 Apr - 12 May
The Promise *2007*
During the savage winter of the 1942 siege of Leningrad, three teenagers – two boys and a girl – are thrown together, struggling to survive in a derel...
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11 Apr - 14 Apr
Vincent in Brixton *2007*
Brixton, South London, 1873. A young art-dealer arrives from Holland and rents a room from a widow and her beautiful daughter, Eugenie. Within 20 year...
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10 Apr - 11 Apr
Terre Haute *2007*
“Thou shalt not kill 168 and live.” A famous author comes face-to-face with America’smost notorious terrorist. One has a story to write,the other has ...
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2 Apr - 7 Apr
The Ghost Train *2007*
An all star cast including Victor Spinetti (A Hard Day’s Night, Help! and Magical Mystery Tour), Geoffrey Davies (Doctor in the House), David Calliste...
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19 Mar - 31 Mar
The Wings of a Dove *2007*
Kate gave up her fancy and powerful lifestyle for a passionate love affair with a journalist. While impoverished and desperate for money, Kate befrien...
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22 Feb - 10 Mar
Death of a Salesman *2007*
Salesman Willy Loman is running out of leads. His best pitches have either retired or died and he is down to surviving on commission alone. Whatever h...
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8 Feb - 17 Feb
Hound of the Baskervilles *2007*
An eerie, bloodcurdling howl is heard across the moors. A blanket of images and sounds envelop the audience bringing the atmospheric terror of Dartmoo...
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2 Nov - 18 Nov
Our Country’s Good *2006*
Loved as a modern classic, Our Country’s Good ells of unlikely friendship, power and the struggle to survive. 1789: a young lieutenant sets out to dir...
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28 Sep - 14 Oct
Miss Julie *2006*
Sex and death: the stakes are as high as they come as Miss Julie teases her proud and sexy servant, Jean. As the tensions spiral out of control into ...
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20 Sep - 7 Oct
Blue Sky State *2006*
Marthe and Jan live alone in a Fenland ghost town. For over 20 years they haven’t seen or spoken to anyone. They’ve practically got their own language...
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29 Aug - 2 Sep
A Party to Murder *2006*
Murder, suspense and unexpected twists make for gripping and terrifying thriller in A Party to Murder. A star-studded cast includes Rebekah Gibbs Casu...
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3 Aug - 13 Aug
Souterrain *2006*
Inspired by the ancient myth of Orpheus in the Underworld, Souterrain is the heartbreaking story of a hero who refuses to let death separate him from ...
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27 Jul - 29 Jul
Titus Andronicus *2006*
For anyone who thinks Shakepeare irrelevant, inaccessible and dull, Titus Andronicus promises to shatter that illusion. The most bloody and infamous w...
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9 May - 20 May
Return to the Forbidden Planet *2006*
Hold tight for the Rock ‘n’ Roll musical that is truly out of this world! Return to the Forbidden Planet takes a fifties Sci-Fi B movie, adds a smatte...
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27 Apr - 6 May
The Bay at Nice & Family Voices *2006*
Two powerful hits from two of Britain’s most brilliant playwrights. The Bay at Nice explores the conflict between family obligations and the right to ...
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13 Feb - 18 Feb
Gaslight *2006*
Murder,mystery and suspense pulse through this captivating Victorian thriller,starring Leah Bracknell and Peter Amory,who played brother and sister C...
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9 Nov - 19 Nov
Devil's Advocate *2005*
Devil's Advocate is a plunge into the nightmare of the trapping and breaking of the tyrant Manuel Noriega by the Vatican's Devil's Advocate, Archbisho...
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3 Nov - 19 Nov
Of Mice and Men *2005*
Lennie and George journey through rural California during the Great Depression desperate for steady work. Lennie, a gentle giant, and George, his cann...
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29 Sep - 8 Oct
Betrayal *2005*
Revered as one of Britain's greatest playwrights, Harold Pinter brilliantly portrays the pain and joy of a long term love affair between a publisher's...
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15 Sep - 24 Sep
The Knight of the Burning Pestle *2005*
Monty Python and Little Britain reinvented television comedy. 400 years earlier Francis Beaumont did the same for the theatre. The play begins. Immed...
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23 Jun - 25 Jun
The Fence *2005*
Inspired by the long distance fence under construction in the Gaza Strip to separate Palestinian and Jewish communities, Howard Barker’s latest play e...
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2 Jun - 18 Jun
The Seagull *2005*
The Seagull’s exquisite blend of sweet comic moments, frustrations and heartbreaks makes for bittersweet comedy and poignant tragedy. Arkadina, a ...
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28 Apr - 29 Apr
Two Into War *2005*
Conflicting views, as two award-winning playwrights, one British and one American, combine for two rare and powerful insights into the most compelling...
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21 Apr - 7 May
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui *2005
From the seedy underworld of the 1930s Chicago grocery trade grows the great Gangster story, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Bertolt Brecht’s comic ...
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14 Apr - 15 Apr
Entertaining Strangers *2005*
In a Victorian English county town, two families, with very different moral values, confront each other as their beliefs are strained by disagreement,...
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30 Mar - 9 Apr
Beyond Reasonable Doubt *2005*
Take your seat in the jury for one of the most compelling courtroom dramas of all time. Beyond Reasonable Doubt starring Leslie Grantham and Simon War...
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10 Mar - 26 Mar
Krapp's Last Tape *2005*
Samuel Beckett's brilliant poetry and humour teasingly pieces together the events that shaped the life of Mr Krapp. Sitting alone at his reel to reel ...
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3 Mar - 26 Mar
Twelfth Night *2005*
“What country friends is this?” – Viola may well ask. Shipwrecked and grieving for her lost twin, Sebastian, Viola disguises herself as a boy to survi...
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14 Feb - 19 Feb
The Gentle Hook *2005*
A stylish new production of Francis Durbridge’s intense and gripping thriller starring Chris Ellison (DI Burnside in The Bill), George Sewell (The Det...
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20 Jan - 20 Jan
Lullaby *2005*
Thrilling dance combines with forceful drama in the setting of a hospital ward. Using dark humour and exciting video technology, Lullaby is guaranteed...
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27 Nov
Making Scenes *2004*
The Mercury Theatre’s newly formed Adult Theatre Workshop stage their first show....
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22 Nov - 24 Nov
Dead Hands *2004*
A man dies. His sons grieve. But they feel a growing sense of being manipulated from beyond the grave. Is the dead man still pulling the strings? What...
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10 Nov - 20 Nov
Happy Days *2004*
Winnie is up to her neck in it, but she’s never been one to let a little sand spoil her day. Her incessant, cheerful chatter is driven by her collecti...
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4 Nov - 20 Nov
Road *2004*
Meet the extraordinary characters that live in an ordinary Road. Here the skin heads are Buddhists, the alsatians are called “Kojak”, old women slap o...
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15 Oct - 16 Oct
Rigoletto *2004*
Verdi’s passionate and powerful opera is performed in English by Mid Wales Opera, who brought Don Giovanni to the Mercury last year. A strong cast of ...
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13 Oct
Margaret Down Under *2004*
The brilliant Eastern Angles present the continuing saga of Margaret Catchpole, this region’s favourite and best-looking horse thief. Her ability to a...
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23 Sep - 9 Oct
To Kill a Mockingbird *2004*
Maycomb, Alabama, USA, 1935. Tom Robinson, a black man, stands accused of raping a white woman. Atticus Finch, a widowed small-town solicitor, fiercel...
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8 Sep - 18 Sep
The Haunted Hotel *2004*
*IMPORTANT NEWS: Brian Blessed is unwell and has been advised by doctors to withdraw from the remaining performances of The Haunted Hotel at the Mercu...
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1 Sep - 11 Sep
The Pull of Negative Gravity *2004*
Wounded in the war in Iraq, a farmer’s boy turned soldier returns home with injuries that have extraordinary consequences for his fiancée and his fami...
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20 Jul - 24 Jul
Tom's Midnight Garden *2004*
Kick start your children's summer holiday and treat the family to this brilliant classic tale.Is it possible to travel back in time? Tom has always be...
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10 Jun - 26 Jun
ION *2004*
From the age of great stories the Mercury Theatre Company presents Euripides’ ION, one of the greatest and most beautiful stories of all. Mike Poulto...
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5 Jun
Blue Sky State *2004*
Former Mercury playwright in residence Anna Reynolds returns to Colchester with Blue Sky State, which receives a staged performance in the Mercury Stu...
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28 May - 29 May
Naked Talent 2: Essex Playwrights Competition *2004*
Selected over nine months from 53 entrants, the final four scripts in the Essex Playwrights Competition will be performed on the Mercury main stage ov...
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5 May - 15 May
Splendour *2004*
In the midst of civil war, the dictator’s wife entertains with cold cuts, chilli vodka and her new Prada handbag. Reality is denied and the sounds of ...
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13 Apr - 17 Apr
84 Charing Cross Road *2004*
This tender, bittersweet comedy is the extraordinary true story of a vivacious New York writer and a London bookseller. Through their letters and pass...
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18 Mar - 3 Apr
Macbeth *2004*
The greatest and darkest psychological thriller of all, Macbeth is the play with everything: the supernatural, treachery, murder, love, ambition and d...
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3 Mar - 13 Mar
About Alice *2004*
A brilliant, sharp and witty comedy featuring some of Britain’s best loved stars. Alice (Gwen Taylor) is the widow of a famous sculptor. Her charisma,...
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16 Feb - 21 Feb
The Shell Seekers *2004*
Shell Seekers is a story of love, courage and determination. It is the tale of Penelope Keeling, her family and of the passions and heartbreak that ha...
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13 Feb
Song & Dance Man *2004*
The incredible life and astounding music of Gustav Mahler told, sung and performed by Mike Maran (Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Private Angelo) and a vi...
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6 Nov
All My Sons *2003*
A tree falls in a neatly kept backyard. As the fallen tree disturbs the calm of the yard, so the order of a seemingly wholesome middle-American family...
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19 Sep
Tonight We Fly *2003*
Tonight We Fly tells the extraordinary and vivid early life of artist Marc Chagall, from his stillborn beginnings in a burning town, to becoming one o...
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8 Sep - 13 Sep
My Cousin Rachel *2003*
A scintillating play of romance, suspense and intrigue from the imagination of the celebrated author Daphne Du Maurier. Philip Ashley receives a lette...
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18 Aug - 30 Aug
Old World *2003*
A Mercury Theatre co-production, Old World is a story of hope and compassion told with humour, proving that love can blossom in the most unlikely of p...
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19 May - 24 May
Don't Dress for Dinner *2003*
Award winning young Magician and Entertainer Michael J Fitch returns to the Mercury following his smash hit charity show, Sparkle. Michael knows how t...
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