We are delighted to have received so many excellent entrants to the festival this year which will take place from 7-10 June 2023 and will be our Ten year Anniversary Festival.
The Festival Committee are pleased to announce the running order for the 2023 Festival as below. Season Tickets will be available to purchase from 2 May 2023 and individual evening tickets from 9 May 2023. Check back soon for further information!
LIGHTHORNE FESTIVAL OF ONE ACT PLAYS
WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE – SATURDAY 10 JUNE 2023
Wednesday 7 June 7:30pm
Lynden Players, Middleton Cheney How the Vote was Won
After 40 years of campaigning for the right to vote, the women of Britain try a different approach. In this comedy, first performed in 1909, the women go on strike, and as distant relations gather at the small home of Horace Cole, he starts to change his mind.
New Kinver Players, Staffordshire Bookends
Ron and Bill haven’t met up for three weeks: Bill has been in Scarborough, reliving his honeymoon and Ron, having escaped from his old people’s home, has been living it up on the ferry to Amsterdam.
Second Thoughts, Stratford The Wind of Change
When Toad announces her new appointment to her friends, they are utterly incredulous. Incredulity turns to admiration. Admiration fast turns to anger. Will Toad be the hero of the hour or the villain of the piece? A light-hearted comedy with a critical underlying message
Thursday 8 June 7:30pm
Beezer Productions, Stratford A Long Time Dead
Dolores wants love badly. Very badly. Will Frank oblige? Will dancing lead to romance? Find out in this uproarious comedy.
Criterion Theatre, Coventry Small Hours
It’s 3 o’clock in the morning, a young mum spends the night in a flat while her baby sleeps fitfully in the next room. Her husband is away and she cannot sleep. Small Hours is an intimate dissection of the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.
Please note that this play includes content around post-natal depression which may be distressing or triggering.
Didcot Phoenix Drama Group Virtual Reality
Two men waiting for equipment to do an unspecified job. The one in charge insists on doing a dry run inventory of the contents of the expected crates. The purely hypothetical assumes a wacky, sinister autonomy that transports them to a frozen wilderness.
Friday 9 June 7:30pm
Phoenix Players Stratford Intelligence
The year is 2035 and the UK population is reaching alarming levels. Behind closed doors, the Prime Minister and his “faithful” Aides are hatching a plan which will make it’s mark in history…
Banbury Cross Players Getting Dark
For six year old Karen, her world is gradually getting dark. Colours that meant so much to her are ebbing away and she needs constant artificial light to see.
Her parents are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with their daughter’s deteriorating condition, so they make a life changing decision!
Rugby Theatre Root of all Evil
Gladys is 85 and her memory is not as good as it was. She gets very confused. Her family don’t help, especially when they can get access to her bank account. Who to trust? Can anyone help?
Saturday evening 7:30pm
Waterbeach Theatre Company, Cambridgeshire One Night in Toledo
On the terrace of a hotel in Spain, two women meet, having been invited to a mutual friend’s forthcoming wedding. As they chat they discover ties, both past and present, and an uncomfortable history begins to emerge. But in such a chance encounter, when confusion is easy, is it right to step in when danger beckons?
Box House Theatre Company, Southampton Twisted Tales
A group of thespians stumble upon an ominous book filled with grisly and gory tales. Will the thespians be bound to act as the book’s puppets, destined for a life of performing but never truly free?