Directed by Rebecca Gardiner Tildesley & Alec Brown

Princes and Princesses; Dragons and time machines – this year's Priory panto had the lot!

Poor Princess Willow is cursed at her christening by the wicked Fairy Carabosse. She decrees that the Princess will prick her finger on her 18th Birthday and fall asleep for 100 years. The only way the curse will be lifted is if a Prince awakes her with a kiss.

Dame Spangle and Jingles the Jester were joined along the way by a host of crazy characters as they set out to defeat Carabosse and lift the curse.

Music, magic and mayhem - this was a beauty of a Pantomime!

A psychological thriller first performed by the Priory in the late 1970's to great acclaim, The Children of the Wolf is described as a modern horror story.

Robin and Linda are 21 year old twins who are given up for adoption shortly after birth. Having traced their biological mother, Helena, they lure her to an abandoned house on the pretext that she will be meeting Michael, her former lover. Here the twins reveal their identity to Helena, taunting her with sinister re-enactments of her past. Eventually she is forced to confess the true circumstances of her children’s birth.

This was a dark, engrossing play with an intensely shocking end.

As a clergyman’s wife, Grace has spent a lifetime on her best behaviour. Now, following the death of her husband Bardolph, she is enjoying the new-found freedom to do and say exactly as she pleases. Usually to the new vicar, Sarah.

The return of Grace’s eccentric missionary sister Ruth prompts some disturbing revelations, which force her to confront Bardolph’s ghost and the truth of their marriage. At the same time Sarah reveals some un-clergy-like credentials of her own to Grace’s therapist daughter Jo.

Entertaining Angels asked whether God can be trusted to do anything right at all - "or is the whole thing a divine exercise in trial and error?"

Directed by Karen Shayler & Stuart Lawson

In financial desperation a single mother gives away one of her new- born twin sons to a wealthy woman unable to have children of her own. Despite the two women’s attempts to keep them from discovering one another’s true identity, the boys paths are destined to cross again in both friendship and anger with tragic consequences.

The pressures of superstition, economics and class, trap them both and seal their fate.

Following last year's smash hit production of Oliver Twist, our very own - and hugely creative and talented - Priory Youth Theatre presented a modern take on the classic story of the ill-fated star-crossed lovers.

Showing their story is as relevant today as it was when it was written. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

In this comic portrayal of family life, we watched the Rodale family Mal, Jill and their children Sam and Chrissie, deal with cracks that seem to be appearing in their relationships. With both humour and pathos they dispense advice to each other.

But nobody was listening – until Mal and Jill are forced to see things from a dramatically different perspective, to the amazement of the rest of the family.

As always with an Ayckbourn play we laughed and cried, but he made us think!

Licentious London, 1735. The age of the coffee-house politician, the corrupt Justice, and the young gallant whose principal delight is the ravishing of virtuous maidens. Unversed in the wicked ways of the world young Hilaret sallies forth from the over-protective walls of Papa’s house resolved to elope with her beloved Captain Constant.

Separated from her maid, Cloris, during a street scuffle, she finds herself in a deuced dangerous situation with a distinctly virile young gentleman named Ramble. Her cries for assistance only lead her into further peril, for she and Ramble are both hauled on trumped-up charges before that rogue of rogues, Mr Justice Squeezum.

Once in custody, Hilaret becomes the latest apple of the Justice’s ever-wandering eye, while Ramble is "rescued" by the bountifully amorous Mrs Squeezum. That Constant, too, happens at that moment to be in jail is just one of the lucky circumstances that eventually resolve this rumbustious story.

With a great score by Lionel Bart and Laurie Johnson this bawdy musical romp proved popular with Priory audiences.

A planned weekend away attending a legal conference for lawyers goes hilariously wrong when unplanned events take over. Set in a hotel bedroom which rivals a train station at rush hour and where the two occupants only want some time to themselves to enjoy some peace, quiet and late night romance. But his wife turns up as does her sister, his best friend, the Lord Chancellor and a very caring waiter to name but a few! Fast furious and frenetic - but will it all end well?