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Summer Season of Plays
23 July 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 27 August 2025 @ 10:00 pm
A second Summer Season of Plays, bringing rep theatre to the beautiful Marine Theatre, on the sea front at stunning Lyme Regis, again. Following the successful performances last year, this year we bring you five popular plays from 23rd July to 27th August. For five weeks, you can enjoy a company of professional actors bringing you popular plays, each one a great evening’s entertainment. Get a season ticket for all five plays for £75 and save money, plus members of the Marine Theatre get a 10% discount.
The first show is Ira Levin’s ‘Deathtrap’, a murderously funny thriller made into a film with Michael Caine. With multiple plot twists, this fiendishly funny play spirals into a deadly game of deception and betrayal.
Next is Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘A Brief History of Women’, a hilarious and gently touching comedy played out over 60 years. A tragi-comedy with all of Ayckbourn’s trademark theatricality, this will be performed in-the-round.
The third play is ‘Strictly Murder’ by Brian Clemens, a dark and frightening thriller set just before WWII. Lies, subterfuge and murder make this fast-moving play a dark and disturbing roller coaster of bluff and double bluff.
Then, for her 250th year, we present Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’, adapted by Mark Healy, which is set partly in Lyme Regis, on the famous Cobb. This faithful yet inventive telling of the story blends Jane’s own life with that of her heroine, Anne.
The season finishes with Noël Coward’s sublime comedy of manners ‘Fallen Angels’ which is a champagne cocktail of wit and charm, described by the Lord Chamberlain as a ‘farcical comedy’ when it was first performed.
All plays start at 7.30pm and change midweek, so if you’re in Lyme for a week you can see two plays. Weekend performances vary – see website for details, or call in at the Lyme Regis Bookshop or Bridport Tourist Information Centre.
Do come and join us!
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