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The Beauty Queen of Leenane

By Martin McDonagh

9 to 12 April 2025

Directed by Nettie Sheridan

Great Expectations

By Charles Dickens

9 to 12 July 2025

Adapted and Directed by

Richard Lindfield

The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a darkly comic drama set in a small, rural Irish village. The story follows Maureen Folan, a woman who has spent her life caring for her manipulative and bitter mother, Mag. Trapped in a stagnant, resentful existence, Maureen dreams of escape and a life beyond her bleak home.

The play explores themes of loneliness, family conflict, and the desperate desire for change ....  Both poignant and unsettling,

The Beauty Queen of Leenane examines the emotional toll of entrapment and the lengths people will go to in pursuit - or prevention - of freedom.

Among the gravestones of a desolate churchyard in the Kent marshes Pip meets the convict, Magwitch, a meeting that is to affect his life in ways the young boy can never imagine.

So begins one of the great novels of the English language, brought to life onstage in a new adaptation specially commissioned by the Southwick Players.

Great Expectations tells the story of Pip's journey from a poor, abusive childhood into a privileged adulthood and the corrosive power that money and social class can exert.

As his life begins to fall apart, Pip comes to realise that his “great expectations” - social standing and wealth - mean little compared to loyalty and compassion.

During the course of the show, you come face-to-face with some of Dickens’ best-known characters: Miss Havisham, jilted on her wedding day; Estella, the unrequited love of Pip’s life; Joe, the tender-hearted blacksmith.

Dickens wrote two different endings to his novel. Richard Lindfield’s adaptation gives you the chance to decide which one you think Pip deserves.

Dates changed now 24-27 September

Dates changed now 10-13 December