Helmsley Arts Centre

the arts for everyone in Ryedale

This is a dramatised reading of a play based on the shocking event that took place in Helmsley in 1895, which has been researched and written by local playwrights Jane Armitage and Celia Morley.

Landlady Mary Holmes could never have imagined the notoriety which would descend on her boarding house in Bondgate following the arrival of Kate and Robert Hudson. Robert wished to search out old acquaintances. Kate, with her passionate and impulsive nature smothered by the social conventions of the Victorian age, was fascinated by the wild moors beyond the town. Mrs Holmes warned her that it could be dangerous to go beyond the moor gate…

Tickets: £8 / Concs £7


7.30pm Wed 21 - Sat 24 April

The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson

Directed by David Powley
On the eve of their mother’s funeral, three sisters meet and once again clash, as old conflicts flare up and reveal their continuing grip on the present. Events may have been shared but memories of them differ wildly. With a husband and a lover also drawn into this bewildering whirlpool, the play offers

“...a superb mix of wild humour and bruising emotion.” Daily Telegraph

“Blessedly and mercurially funny...Stephenson combines a flair for witty dialogue with a relish for the dynamics of theatre...a mistress of comic anguish.” Guardian

The play won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy in 2000

Tickets: £9 / Concs £8

Some recent productions

Olde Time Music Hall

December 2009
with
Julian Allistone, David Bryant, Jane Buckle, Dodie Carter, Holly Cawte
Kate Cawte, Oliver Clive, Paddy Clough
Liz Cox, Sue Elm, Diana Gaunt
June Greener, Charlie Grumbley, Lynn Holmes, Natasha Jones, John Roberts Heather Linley, Steve Lonsdale, Mike Martin, Paul Nicoll, Pauline Noakes
Glyn Price, Gaile Stevens, Martin vander Weyer, Issy Zarb
Directed by Robin Andrews, Sue Elm, Diana Gaunt, Glyn Price, Em Whitfield
Pianist Richard Noakes
Backstage and technical team  Stage Management: Paul Elm, Will Bailey, Dan Fitton, Sue Cooper, Kate Cawte, Paddy Clough, Holly Cawte, Diana Gaunt, Em Whitfield, Sue Elm, Glyn Price, Jill Jackson, Chris Small, Mick Scott Sharim  Marshall, Lin Dyson, Erica Zarb

Skylight by David Hare

October 2009

with
Charles Bailey, Cal Stockbridge, Simon Waley

Directed by Jonathan Lewis & Grace Wood-Lofthouse

Backstage & technical team Will Bailey, Dan Fitton,
Meg Holmes, Grace Wood-Lofthouse






Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward  

Kate Cawte as Madame Arcati and John Lister as Charles

July 2009
with
Alan Avery, Kate Cawte, Holly Cawte, Liz Cox,
Bronwyn Jennison, John Lister, Jean Sheridan

Directed by John Roberts

Backstage & technical team: Will Bailey,
Pam Broadbent, Paddy Clough,  Paul Elm, Dan Fitton,
Diana Gaunt,Carole Haigh,Lynette Lunn, Glyn Price,Chris Small,Erica Zarb.




Vita & Virginia  by Eileen Atkins
May, 2009

From letters written to each other by
Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

with
Kate Cawte, Cal Stockbridge.

Directed by David Powley

Backstage & technical team: Will Bailey,
Sue Cooper, Sally Fitton




The Sea by Edward Bond    
April, 2009    
with
David Bryant, Holly Cawte, Rob Davies, Diana Guant,  Charlie Grumbley, Vicki Hill, Lynn Holmes, Natasha Jones,  Heather Linley, Sam Lunn, Steve Lonsdale,  Mike Martin, Glyn Price, Janet Pringle, Rachel Shackleton, Jean Sheridan.

Directed by Em Whitfield Brooks

Backstage & technical  team: Will Bailey, Paddy Chambers, Paddy Clough, Sue Cooper, Sue Elm, Paul Elm, Dan Fitton, Denise Kitchin, Erica Zarb



Treasure Island  adapted by Phil Wilmott
from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
December 2008
with
David Bryant, Jane Buckle, Kate Cawte,
Holly Cawte, Liz Cox, Rachel Davidson,
Karen Galvin, Charlie Grumbley,Vicki Hill,
Judith Holmes, Lynn Holmes, Denise Kitchin, Heather Linley, Steve Lonsdale, Mike Martin, Harland Morgan, Richard Noakes, Glyn Price, Jean Sheridan, Isobel Zarb

Directed by Mick Scott, Richard Noakes, Diana Gaunt

Backstage & technical team:Will Bailey,
Pam Broadbent, Paddy Clough, Sue Cooper, Paul Elm, Sue Elm, Carole Haigh, Meg Holmes, Terry Johnson,  Rowena Langdale,  Denise Kitchin, Malcolm Kitchin,
Pauline Noakes, Christine Price, Erica Zarb