Directed By Mark Jefferies

There’s trouble brewing in the normally peaceful village of Much Trumping. The crops are dying and the ruthless Giant Blunderbore and his henchman Gutrot are destroying everything in their sight.

Worse still, Daisy the Cow has gone dry, leaving Dame Trott without a bean to her name. The King has offered his daughter's hand in marriage to whoever can defeat the Giant. Can our hero Jack, helped (and hindered) by his brother Willy and his mum Dame Trott, hatch a plan to defeat the Giant and save the village?

Join us for a magical pantomime adventure at the Priory with beautiful sets and costumes, hilarious comedy and bags of knockabout fun.

Directed By Lynda Lewis

This is Noel Coward at his inimitable best; this story is a champagne cocktail of wit and charm.

Best friends now happily married to others, Julia and Jane, both once counted the dashing Frenchman Maurice as their lover and guess who is back in town, requesting the pleasure of the ladies company?

Directed By Stuart Lawson

This tragicomic panto-within-a-play is set over the holiday period at a crumbling provincial theatre, chronicling both the on- and off-stage lives of the cast and crew of a repertory production that is rapidly going downhill, even on the opening night.

Among the many delightful characters are Anastasia Crabbe, a fading movie star; an actor fresh from drama school; Bernie the has-been puppeteer, his puppet Monkey; a weather girl-turned-leading lady who is soon way in over her head.

Holding the show together are Maggie the stage manager and Tom, the theatre’s owner. Since the death of his partner the previous year, Tom has been trying to keep the theatre afloat, but external financial pressures and the increasing antics backstage are a poignant counterpoint to the hilarious antics interspersed onstage during the pantomime.

Directed by Mike Brooks

An unhappy game of romantic follow-my-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lady Lucy Ankatell.

Dr Cristow is at the centre of the trouble when his mistress Henrietta, ex-mistress Veronica and wife Gerda, simultaneously arrive at The Hollow. Also visiting are Edward (who is in love with Henrietta) and Midge (who loves Edward).

Veronica ardently desires to Cristow and succeeds in re-opening their affair, but is unable to get him to divorce his wife. Veronica unwisely states that if she cannot have him, no one shall. Within five minutes Cristow is dead. Nearly everyone has a motive and most had the opportunity. enter Inspector Colquhoun and Sergeant Penny to solve the crime.

Directed by Susi Walker & John Evans

Sibling rivalry, adultery and dungeons, this play by James Goldman, is a modern day classic. Comedic in tone, dramatic in action, the play tells the story of the Plantagenet family who are locked in a free-for-all of competing ambitions to inherit a kingdom.

The queen, and wealthiest woman in the world, Eleanor of Aquitaine has been kept in prison since raising an army against her husband, King Henry II. Let out only for holidays, the play centres around the inner conflicts of the royal family as they fight over both a kingdom, as well as King Henry’s paramour during the Christmas of 1183. As Eleanor says, “every family has its ups and downs,” and this royal family is no exception.

Directed by Darren Scott

Michael Cooney’s riotous farce has all the ingredients for rib-tickling hilarity and offers a colourful selection of character roles.

Eric Swan (aided by his Uncle George and unbeknown to his wife, Linda) has pocketed "thousan’s of pounds" through fraudulent DSS claims. When Norman Bassett (the lodger) opens the door to Mr Jenkins, the DSS inspector, deceptive mayhem follows — as do the undertaker, bereavement counsellor, psychiatrist, Norman’s finance, a corpse, the ominous Ms Cowper and a rather rebellious washing machine.

Directed by Callum Roberts & Hannah Farquharson

Our Priory Youth Theatre returns with David Wood's adaption of Roald Dahl's classic tale. Directed by Callum Roberts & Hannah Farquharson, James and the Giant Peach sees the classic tale faithfully told by James himself and the insect characters – Miss Spider, Old-Green-Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybird and Earthworm. The play begins at the end of the story, when James and his friends are living in the giant peach stone in Central Park, New York.

A tour guide brings a party of tourists (the audience) to see this major attraction, and James and his friends tell the story of how they came to live in New York. The insects play the other roles, like James’s cruel Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, and the epic journey across the Atlantic is acted out with live action, puppetry and storytelling.

Directed by Mark Jefferies

Once upon a time, there was a handsome but selfish Prince, selfish in the extreme, without a thought for any other living creature.

An Old Lady visits his castle and offers him a beautiful rose, a symbol of the love and loyalty his subjects have for him. The selfish Prince shuns her as grotesque and worthless, whereupon she transforms into a beautiful Sorceress.

Angered by his arrogance at judging simply by appearance, she turns him into a hideous Beast for five hundred years, a spell that can only be broken when he learns to love and win the love of another.

So ashamed of his grotesque form, the Beast hides himself away.  If anything, the passing years make him more bitter and ferocious than ever before.  Will he ever win the love of another and break the spell…..?

All will be revealed in this magical Priory panto, full of spectacular scenery, gorgeous costumes and hilarious slapstick fun!