Before 9pm, Theatre

• Written by: Victoria Wood

A musical based on Victoria Wood's 1984 series As Seen On TV, parodying early sitcoms by exaggerating their low production values. Its premise: the lives and loves of the staff of an antiques shop in the fictional town of Manchesterford.

A pianist commits a terrible crime to save his own skin in Xu Nuo's two-hander. Ticket price includes a pie and a drink.

Three office workers get their own back on their lying bigot of a boss and conspire to take over the company, all while singing along to 18 classic Dolly Parton numbers.

• Written by: Patrick DeWitt

A new show set on the west coast of America, blending a live soundtrack, detailed mime and the heart-wrenching humour of author, Patrick DeWitt.

• Directed by: Eddie Latter
• Written by: Sarah Nelson

The voice of worldwide youth takes shape through stunning original music and lyrics singing a universal hymn of peace. 2011 saw the death of Brian Haw, the extraordinary anti-war campaigner who camped outside the Houses of Parliament for 11 years in protest first at the sanctions against Iraq and then against the wars in…

Students perform an end of year casino-themed show.

A burlesque and cabaret show with a fetish theme.

Scarlet Lights rock! Staring on the same bill with such well known acts as Russell Kane & Sarah Millican. Schmoozing at festivals with the likes of Jimmy Carr and the inspirational Keith Chegwin. Discovered by the man who launched the successful career of Peter Kay, Agraman, who has been quoted saying the Scarlet’s…

Join Maggie Muff and her friends on this (slightly filthy) journey of love, booze and whips.

'76 Million People and Me' is the story of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot trapped on a rowing boat to hell. As they travel, their conversation lurches from national anthems to the finer points of genocide. This dark comedy asks the audience how much do we really know about evil, and what is the cost of a human life?

• Directed by: Stanley Walton
• Written by: Joe Berwick

Irresponsible Decorators Theatre Company presents a piece of new writing about Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot who are all stuck in a rowing boat to hell.

Portsmouth's foremost amateur dramatics company, Humdrum, present 84 Charing Cross Road. In 1949, Helene Hanff, a New York-based writer, contacts an antiquarian book-shop in London Marks & Co. for help acquiring some volumes she wants to add to her collection.Manager Frank Doel replies to her letter. Thus begins one…

• Directed by: Paul ffitch
• Written by: Helene Hanff

In 1949 a struggling American writer started a correspondence with a firm of British antiquarian booksellers that was to last for 20 years. The warm and compassionate exchange of letters is here skilfully and lovingly adapted for the stage.

During a rainy morning in a seafront café, two couples debate their futures. One romance has just blossomed. The other has already ended. Will either relationship survive? A darkly comic new play featuring alumni of RADA and the Royal Court. 'Absence' explores our attitudes towards relationships and mental health in the…

A darkly comic new play featuring alumni of RADA and the Royal Court.

A classic comedy of manners and social embarrassment served up with a slice of deliciously black humour.

• Written by: Alan Ayckbourn

A group of friends host a tea party for their estranged mate, to try to cheer him up after the death of his fiancee. Soon, however, good intentions fall by the wayside, to be replaced by forms of resentment. Alan Ayckbourn's farcical play, about middle class failings.

A sparkling comedy in which a persistent stalker lusts after the flirtatious wife of a friend and a would-be lothario claims that it is he alone who really loves her. Meanwhile her husband lies about his whereabouts in order to keep an illicit rendezvous with an old flame.

An anniversary variety show.

Different perspectives on the events of Easter presented in two short plays, "According to Everyone Else" and "The Woman's View". Light refreshments will be available.

The Mercators celebrate the life of Oscar Wilde and his wife Constance with their dramatised readings.

• Written by: Victoria Wood

Written by Victoria Wood and based on the soap opera parody sketches that originally appeared in the Victoria Wood As Seen On TV shows.

• Written by: Victoria Wood

A musical, in-house production of Victoria Wood's TV soap opera parody.