Open Evening – April 6th

An open evening with cheese and wine is to be held at Penrith Playhouse on Saturday, 6th April, from 7pm. As part of an on-going drive to increase awareness of the fantastic community theatre facility in the town’s Auction Mart Lane, behind Morrisons, the open...

Importance of being Earnest review

“Importance of being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde, Penrith Players. Directed by John Davies For their 2018 October production, Penrith Players chose “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde – a sparkling perennial of the English theatre, rated  by many to be the...

Our Country’s Good casting evening – Feb 25th

This summer Penrith Players is staging ‘Our Country’s Good’ by Timberlake Wertenbaker, from June 6th-8th, a play considered to be a modern classic and widely taught in A Level theatre studies. The play is based on a true story about a group of...

Casting Evening – Quartet

January 15th, 7.30 ‘QUARTET’ by Ronald Harwood, is a comedy about four opera singers who end up in a retirement home for musicians in leafy Kent. It succeeds in being witty, scabrous, and poignant all at the same time. It is a great opportunity for older...