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Milked

By Simon Longman

14th - 25th January 2025

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Paul is tyring to find a job. Snowy is trying to find himself. But when Snowy stumbles across an ailing cow stuck in a local field, he ropes Paul into trying to help the cow, either to improve its lot or put it out of its misery.

What follows is a hilarious procession of failed suffocations experiments with a saw and trip to the train tracks in this funny and moving black comedy about friendship, unemployment and a cow called Sandy.

Haunted Shadows

28th January - 8th February 2025

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Edith Nesbit revisits the darkness of her own past, telling three of her Gothic tales while recalling various childhood terrors. Better known for her children's books, she was also a prolific writer of ghost and horror stories. The Shadow, The Pavilion and a rediscovered tale, A Strange Experience, are dramatised in this chilling one-woman show.

Performed and adapted by Claire Louise Amias

Directed by Jonathan Rigby

Edith Nesbit was born in Kennington (only five minutes' walk from the White Bear) and spent her first seven years in the area.

Once a Week Theatre

★★★★ ‘Good old-fashioned story-telling is the key to the success of this entertaining one-woman show … Amias’ narration is superb. Director Jonathan Rigby paces both pieces expertly … it’s delicious fun to be settled comfortably and know you are going to be appalled in the next moment. The stories themselves are strong … adding further substance to this small but perfectly formed evening.’

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Hint of Lime Productions in association with ANDTheatre Company present:

The Value of Names

A UK Premiere
Written and Directed by Jeffrey Sweet

11th February - 1st March 2025

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Starring Jeremy Kareken, Katherine Lyle & Tim Hardy

Hollywood, 1983. Up and coming actress Norma is staying with her father, Benny, as she begins rehearsing a project. Benny was a blacklisted actor, and they discover the new director assigned to Norma's show is Leo, the man who gave Benny's name to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and derailed his career. Norma is faced with the choice of giving up a career making role or hurting her father, Benny is faced with the knowledge his daughter is working closely with the man who betrayed him, and Leo comes face to face for the first time with the consequences of his actions so many years ago. The three of them have things to settle, you bet. Funny and confrontational.

Hint of Lime Productions returns to The White Bear Theatre to present another UK premiere of a Jeffrey Sweet play, “The Value of Names” following the five-star reviewed and Offie Award Nominated “Kunstler” in May 2024. The company is also the producer of five star reviewed and Standing Ovation Award finalist, “The Trials of Galileo” starring (“The Value of Names” cast member) Tim Hardy, at The White Bear in October 2024.

“The Value of Names is almost perfect.” Variety

“It’s not often you will encounter a play as rich in depth as The Value of Names.” Chicago Magazine

“Very moving, beautifully written.” Chicago Tribune

Chateau Farci

a French farce by David Shirreff

4th - 15th March 2025

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Directed by Kenneth Michaels

Imagine a crumbling chateau in rural France. Alice, the owner, and her partner Jake, an old soldier, moved in twenty years ago. The couple’s relationship has broken down, but Jake refuses to move out. He is holed up in a corner of the chateau known as his bunker.

A local Gendarme, Jacqueline the maid, various offspring and Pongo the dog contribute to the confusion.

The plot is part farce, part tragedy, part whodunit. Come and enjoy the fun.