Recent and Past Productions
Click on the production you’d like to know more about, or scroll down to see a summary of them all.
Many thanks to Alec Walker who took many of the photos.
Season’s Greetings
Winter 2026
Pandora’s Biscuit Tin
Summer 2026
Portraits
April 2026
Overdub
April 2025
A Christmas Carol
December 2024
Blithe Spirit
July 2024
Two
April 2024
About Women
March 2024
Without A Trace
December 2023
Gasping
July 2023
A Phoenix Too Frequent
April 2023
Something About Love
April 2023
Jack and the Beanstalk
January 2023
Just Supper
July 2022
Bed
April 2022
Rats!
December 2021
The Housekeeper
February 2020
Out of Sight, Out of Murder
December 2019
The Sound of Heavy Rain
August 2019
The Thrill of Love
April 2019
Foolish Fish Girls & the Pearl
December 2018
Power & Petticoats
August 2018
Dai Whittington
By J Litten
Join Dai and Tommy the cat on their travels from West Wales to Cardiff, with a sea voyage to an exotic island thrown in for good measure. Plenty of the usual Panto mayhem as they try to defeat the evil leader of the Rat Pack and her decidedly unsavoury sidekicks. A chance to boo and hiss, cheer and clap as the characters stumble their way towards the finale. Will there be love in the air?
By Ian Hislop and Nick Newman
The Stratford Players in sleepy Stratford St John are struggling to save their theatre from developers. They hit on the idea to lure fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steele to join them in their production of King Lear – only Jefferson believes he is joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in the birthplace of the Bard and is horrified to discover he has signed up to perform with a bunch of amateurs!
Overdub
By Glenn Ibbitson and Louise Weldon
Struggling writer Jerry, paying homage to Conan-Doyle, assigns Holmes and Watson possibly their strangest – certainly their kinkiest – case yet. He teams up with his best friend’s girl and the two scribes interact closely with their creations and enter the strange world of ventriloquism, where nothing is as it sounds. Two bodies are found and a femme fatale is in the frame, but who is the real villain, in a case where nobody is quite what they seem?…
Follow the trail of missed clues; of nappies and nuts; coat hooks and calling cards; oranges and dog leads. Avoid the red herrings and eventually the evidence will lead to the real girl in the case.
A Christmas Carol
Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens
The classic story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
In the process, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.
Blithe Spirit
By Noël Coward
Set in 1937, socialite and novelist Charles Condomine invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his wilful and temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles's marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost. Noël Coward wrote the play in 1941 to offer some comic relief from the war.
Two
By Jim Cartwright
Behind the bar of their northern pub, the Landlord and Landlady welcome their regulars with open arms. Lending an ear for stories of celebration, of loss, of love and of despair, the bickering couple work together to keep the locals in high spirits – with drinks, conversation and laughter.
About Women
By Melanie Davies, Claire Scott, Louise Weldon, Semele Xerri
Celebrating International Women’s Day.
A theatrical celebration devised by the cast, exploring the often untold history and experience of women and the astounding impact of power and sex on our everyday lives.
Without A Trace
By Melanie Davies
Without a Trace is a gripping story of an ordinary amateur dramatics group who do quite extraordinary things. From the start you suspect that everything isn’t quite what it seems, but you’ll never believe what has gone on in the past, or what is yet to come. The play is set over one night of rehearsal bringing together the whole company, who are rehearsing for their next production. The trouble is this isn't just another amateur drama company, far from it. They carry a secret which has troubled all of them over the years and which is about to be found out in a very unpleasant way/. The play takes you down a nice gentle country lane and then swerves off onto a motorway. It plays with your expectations and ideas about this small town group of actors. You’ll definitely think twice about joining an am dram group after this.
Gasping
By Ben Elton
Gasping is a brilliantly funny satire on big business, the media and product exploitation. Lockheart Industries is making serious money, but Sir Chiffley Lockheart needs the buzz that finding a way to make money where none has existed before gives him. Philip, a pushy workaholic executive, suggests selling designer air. Perrier for the nostrils becomes the marketing phenomenon of the decade and millions are quickly made. People start hoarding for a rainy day and oxygen supplies run low. The Third World is plundered, creating a greater divide between the haves and have nots. The world starts gasping and only the biggest suckers survive.
A Phoenix Too Frequent
By Christopher Fry
Set in antiquity, in a tomb at night, it concerns Dynamene who has determined to starve herself to death so she can join her recently deceased husband in the underworld. She’s accompanied by her maidservant Doto, who has agreed to die with her mistress, but has very mixed feelings about the whole business. Dynamene’s ‘tragic’ air is contrasted with Doto’s wry and witty reflections on the whole idea. Into this walks Tegeus, a soldier on duty guarding six dead criminals recently hung on nearby gibbets. Both encouraged and teased by Doto, a romance develops between Dynamene and Tegeus and the play ends with a neat twist to solve a serious problem for Tegus that’s arisen in the night, and a turn for life rather than death for all three characters.
Something About Love
By Melanie Davies
Cathy, Brenda and Ann are in their sixties now. Their friendship has lasted since their primary school days. They’ve helped each other through the years and can tell you as much as you’d ever need to know about their love lives.
Something About Love takes a quick peek into the lives of three ordinary women at different stages in their lives. We see how their friendship has lasted, even when their relationships didn’t. This is a big-hearted dive into how we chose who we live our lives with.
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Jack and the Beanstalk
By Judith Kings
Join Jack Trott on his adventures from Emlynville to the top of the beanstalk. Plenty of laughs along the way, with all the usual panto mayhem!
The poor townsfolk face a double whammy. A severe drought thought to be a consequence of climate change, and the pilfering of anything that does manage to grow, thought to be the work of the local squire. But is this the whole story? Someone is needed to get to the bottom of this. And when the squire’s daughter and a prize cow is lost, it seems like it will need to be a hero. Step forward Jack who is an unassuming character. He seems to get the job by default, but can he relieve the lot of the beleaguered townsfolk?
Just Supper
By Melanie Davies
Comedy with a serious underbelly.
When Bob dies he has no intention of going quietly. His dying wishes were that his wife set up a ‘last supper’ for their friends. As the diverse assortment of friends arrive at the small holding in rural Wales, it becomes clear that the only thing they have in common apart from a friendship with Bob, is a shared concern for the planet. Each friend brings their own story of Bob which reveal him as a man with many faces. As in life, Bob manages to manipulate the group, setting them an outrageous, radical task which he believes will open up an international response and advance the cause of saving the planet. Through the play each character must wrestle with their allegiances to Bob and their own integrity.
Bed
By Jim Cartwright
Bed is often described as a play that explores old age and sleep, but it has far more depth than that. It is a story about older people reflecting on a changed world and in particular, personal events that changed their lives.
Enter the surreal world of dreams and dreamscapes as a cast of eight actors portray very different characters. Each interacts with the others, yes, but not during their waking hours. Rather they frequent each other’s sleep as, in turn, we learn something about their previous lives.
The Housekeeper
By Morgan Regan
A desperate mother who’s lost everything decides it’s time to claw something back, in a world where money is everything and everyone has their price... or so they say. This psychological thriller with a darkly comic edge explores power, corruption, and entitlement through one dramatic night of conflict.
Out of Sight, Out of Murder
By Fred Carmichael
When we read a book, we often speak of the author’s ability to bring the characters to life almost as if they are jumping off the pages. But what if they really did come to life and take over all the action? This is the delightful premise of Out of Sight, Out of Murder. With a sinister, isolated mansion, dramatic thunder and lightening and a cast of nine truly dodgy characters, any one of whom could be the killer, this play has all the ingredients for an entertaining evening! Some characters revel in their villainy invading the authors mind. Others just want to be free! Who has the mean and motive? Whose charming exterior conceals the black heart of a killer? When will the unexpected guest arrive? All these questions create a magical mystery interwoven through twists and turns of humour.
The Sound of Heavy Rain
By Penelope Skinner
At first sight, the hard-drinking private investigator and loner Dabrowski seems to be straight out of a Hollywood film noir. He’s got a hard-core narration habit, an ever-open bottle of whisky, he trails a fug of cigarettes, is still stuck on the girl who has left him, and appears to exist in a world where it’s always raining. So perhaps he has reason to be hopeful that the distressed woman who presses the buzzer on his office door in the middle of the night will look like Faye Dunaway in Chinatown.
Of course Maggie Brown, who employs him to find her friend Foxy O’Hara, a bar room singer who has gone missing, doesn’t look anything like a film noir vamp, because real life is nothing like the movies. It’s much stranger in this surreal 90 minutes by Penelope Skinner.
The Thrill of Love
By Amanda Whittington
The play tells the true story of Ruth Ellis and her tragic descent into despair, culminating in the shooting of her lover David Blakely in April 1955. Ruth Ellis was found guilty of murder, and was hanged on July 13th 1955, the last woman to be executed in Britain.
The cast and crew studied a huge amount of information about the case, alongside the script, which is particularly stylised and departs from convention, and the company worked hard to give our audiences an authentic perspective of the period. We were pleased to hear many positive reactions after the performances, and hope we encouraged thoughtful consideration about what was a tragedy at the time, and still causes debate today.
Foolish Fishgirls and the Pearl
By Barbara Pease Weber
Striking a perfect balance between comedy and romance, this fun, nautical play brought fabulous mermaids, seafood chowder and snow to Newcastle Emlyn!
“The play is set in Sea Hags, a seaside B&B and Café run by two sisters, Oceana and Coral. Alas, times are hard and the B&B has seen better days. It is a cold, miserable day in early January when the play takes place and the weather forecast is for a major storm to hit, bringing with it snow and high winds. ‘What a way to start the New Year’ quips Coral, ‘Flat broke and snowbound’.”
To accompany the play, the audience were invited to enjoy an immersive experience, with mince pies and mulled wine served by members of the Sea Hags café.
Power and Petticoats
By Melanie Davies
Power and Petticoats was a brand new piece of work conceived and created by members of the Attic Players, written and directed by Melanie Davies during summer 2018.
Melanie says, “The piece grew out of my long held interest in women’s struggle for the vote and how lucky I am to have the opportunity to fulfil my ambition with Attic Players. Power and Petticoats is full of energy and fizz. It is a very entertaining show that shines a light on a time when so many people were questioning why half the population of Britain didn’t have a vote. You will hear many voices from that time from kitchen maids to politicians, from the rich to the poor, from those with and those without power.”
The resulting play was an engaging, witty and inventive period drama woven around true stories of women’s struggle for the vote.