Helmsley Arts Centre

the arts for everyone in Ryedale

The 1812 Theatre Company is the in-house company of Helmsley Arts Centre, with a rich and varied show history, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and An Inspector Calls to the pure silliness of The Farndale Avenue...Macbeth” and Alan Ayckbourn’s Sisterly Feelings.The company stages three major productions per year, plus two small-scale productions in the Studio Bar.
We are always searching for new talent, on stage or in the wings,so if you are interested, do give our secretary June Greener a call on 01723 859583 or send her an email.


Our Next Productions

Wednesday 28 - Saturday 31 March, 7.30pm
Table No. 9
A new play by Sara Murphy
in the Studio Bar

Two friends meet up after losing touch for thirty years. We meet them in full flow of
their renewed friendship. They share a cafe with two young women, who pity them.The older ones envy the younger pair.   What they don’t realise is how similar they actually are Enid and Maude also end up envying each other, proving that we never really know what goes on behind closed doors.

£10 / Seniors £9 / Students & Under 25s £5
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Thursday 26 - Saturday 28 April, 7.30pm
Born In The Gardens
By Peter Nichols
Directed by Richard Noakes
Maud lives in a dilapidated mock-Tudor house with her son Mo, an antiquarian bookseller and trad-jazz enthusiast who accompanies records on his drumkit and encourages Maud's eccentricities such as the war she wages on hordes of (imaginary) mites which infest her life.
Maud's other children, Hedley and Queenie, arrive for their father's funeral.
They try to persuade Maud to go to a modern duplex in London and Mo to join Queenie in California, but both prefer to remain where they are.
“Not all of us,” Mo says, "want freedom. Captivity has its points as well."

£10 / Seniors £9 / Students & Under 25s £5
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Recent Productions

Around the World in 80 Days
By Jules Verne
Adapted and directed by Martin Vander Weyer
December 2011


It's October 1872. The mysterious Phileas Fogg bets his fellow members of the Reform Club in London that he can travel round the world in 80 days and be back in time for the Club's Christmas party. He sets off that very evening, accompanied by his valet Passepartout - and pursued by Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard, who is convinced Fogg has robbed the Bank of England.
Follow Fogg's breathless adventures by ship, train, elephant and bicycle as he races against time, rescues a princess, fights off Red Indians and evades the grasp of the hapless Fix - until the very last moment! But can he still reach the Reform Club before the clock strikes quarter to nine?
This hilarious adaptation, specially written for our popular, multi-talented 1812 Theatre Company, injects seasonal fizz and musical fun into Verne's much-loved story.

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The Turn of The Screw
by Henry James Adapted by Douglas Jones
Directed by Jonathan Lewis and Isobel Zarb
October 2011
“Peter Quint is The Devil. Sometimes, he visits this world to hurt the good... and steal away their children.”
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Left in sole charge of a boy and girl on a lonely country estate, a young Governess comes to believe that the ghosts of two dead servants have hideous designs upon the children. If she's right, they are all in grave danger; if she's wrong, she herself might be driving the children to the edge of insanity. But despite their apparent innocence, Miles and Flora know more than they're telling...
Based on the classic ghost story by Henry James, this adaptation provides genuine chills, the tension increasing with every twist in the plot... or 'turn of the screw'.

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