Written by Peter Shaffer
Two one-act plays exploring deception through vastly different tones: one introspective and melancholic, the other riotously farcical.
13 March 2026–21 March 2026
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Peter Whelan
A compelling historical drama based on real events that took place in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1613.
27 January 2026–31 January 2026
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by C.S Lewis adapted by Adrian Mitchell and Music by Shaun Davey
The classic tale of adventures from the land of Narnia full of magical creatures. Great Christmas Family entertainment
5 December 2025–14 December 2025
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Lucy Kirkwood
The Welkin, by Lucy Kirkwood, is a powerful and thought-provoking drama set in rural Suffolk in 1759.
19 September 2025–27 September 2025
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Agatha Christie
9 June 2025–15 June 2025
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by E. Nesbit adapted by Mike Kenny
An adaptation of E. Nesbit’s much loved children’s classic
6 December 2024–15 December 2024
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Jim Cartwright
A black comedy set in a Lancashire town in the 1980’s
24 September 2024–28 September 2024
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Peter Quilter
Hilarious comedy of the worst singer in the world.
18 June 2024–22 June 2024
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Laura Wade
Laura Wade’s beautifully poised family drama
12 March 2024–16 March 2024
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Yasmina Reza translated from the French by Christopher Hampton.
The long term friendship of Serge, Marc and Yvan is shaken to the core when Serge buys an expensive contemporary painting without discussing it with the other two men.
12 March 2024–16 March 2024
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Paul Greenwood
New writing by Paul Greenwood
31 January 2024–3 February 2024
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Road Dahl adapted by David Wood
James lives with his mean Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, they make his life miserable. Until ….
1 December 2023–10 December 2023
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Anton Chekhov translated by Michael Frayn
Russia 1904, Mme Ranyevskya returns to her estate following a five-year absence
24 October 2023–28 October 2023
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Road Dahl
Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of 60, he was a bigger twit than ever.
10 March 2023–19 March 2023
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Tim Firth
Four out-of-condition clueless middle managers are forced on the outdoor awayday from hell.
17 June 2022–25 June 2022
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
From high farce to poignant observation; the laughs, however dark, keep coming.
1 April 2022–9 April 2022
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn’s comic masterpiece of social climbing in 1970s suburbia fuses a potent mix of farce and black comedy.
10 December 2021–18 December 2021
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Jean McConnell
Four twist-in-the-tail playlets from the Deckchairs series, brilliantly written by Jean McConnell.
20 October 2021–23 October 2021
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
The Bear Pit Theatre Company brings Alan Ayckbourn’s comic trilogy masterpiece to life.
20 February 2020–14 March 2020
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by by David Wood. Adapted from the novel by Michelle Magorian
Goodnight Mister Tom is a tale of two broken souls at very different ends of the age scale that celebrates the value of friendship.
6 December 2019–14 December 2019
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn’s Snake in the Grass, a creepily, scarily, eerily enjoyable evening full of suspense drama about murder, blackmail and haunting.
1 November 2019–9 November 2019
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Martin McDonagh
A play by the writer of two Oscar nominated films, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, critically acclaimed film In Bruges.
24 June 2019–29 June 2019
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Ernest Thompson
A touching, funny and warmly perceptive study of a spirited and lovable elderly couple facing their twilight years.
17 May 2019–25 May 2019
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Martin McDonagh
A hilarious comic tale in the great tradition of Irish storytelling; packed with colourful eccentric characters that you’d find in a Father Ted episode
2 March 2019–9 March 2019
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Barney Norris
A beautiful and sharply funny love story, Visitors takes a haunting look at the way our lives slip past us.
11 February 2019–16 February 2019
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Richard Curtis & Ben Elton
It’s 1917 and Blackadder is now a captain in the British Army at the Front, commanding gallant-but-dumb Lieutenant George St. Barleigh and the even dumber Private Baldrick.
2 November 2018–10 November 2018
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Anna Longaretti
In a busy call centre, the four female employees of Aphrodite, a sex toy manufacturer, take telephone orders for Teasey Maids, Titivators and rotating pearl g-strings
17 July 2018–21 July 2018
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Noel Coward
Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist and his wife Judith, a retired actress, find that an impossible dream.
15 June 2018–23 June 2018
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by John Buchan, adapted for stage by Patrick Barlow
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps,
11 May 2018–19 May 2018
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Originally devised and performed by the Lions part
A revealing, funny and wonderfully moving portrait of women who sign up to join the Women’s Land Army during World War II.
17 April 2018–21 April 2018
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Alan Bennett
The antics at the Wicksteed home are a satirical merry-go-round.
16 March 2018–24 March 2018
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by by Eugene Ionesco Translated from the French by Donald Watson
This is a hilariously maniacal assault on the banality of English suburbia.
13 February 2018–17 February 2018
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Roald Dahl, adapted for the stage by David Wood
A boy and his Grandmother defeat the Grand High Witch and her followers
1 December 2017–9 December 2017
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Ronald Harwood
Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred reside in a home for retired opera singers in Kent, England.
22 September 2017–30 September 2017
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Moira Buffini
An artist, a scientist and a sexpot are coming to dinner. Paige, hostess extraordinaire, is celebrating the publication of her husband’s bestseller.
16 June 2017–24 June 2017
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Richard Bean
Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood
12 May 2017–20 May 2017
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Noel Coward
Actor, charmer and diva, Garry Essendine is determined to disregard his advancing years by revelling in endless tantrums and casual affairs.
3 March 2017–11 March 2017
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by A. A. Milne
Toad becomes uncontrollably obsessed with speed, and specifically cars
2 December 2016–10 December 2016
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Jim Cartwright
A bickering husband and wife and the dozen regulars who pass through their pub in an evening are played by two actors.
14 October 2016–22 October 2016
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Adapted for stage by Shaun McKenna
When a handsome and talented young Polish violinist bound for America is washed ashore, the Widdington sisters take him under their wing and nurse him back to health
17 June 2016–25 June 2016
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by William Shakespeare
The nation’s favourite Shakespeare play is performed as never before; magically intertwining professional and amateur actors, deep in an enchanted wood on Midsummer’s night
17 February 2016–18 June 2016
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Yasmina Reza
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children?
6 May 2016–14 May 2016
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Mark Carey
A drama about the different roles people assume in life, about the dangers of pretending to be someone we’re not
6 May 2016–14 May 2016
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Michael Frayn
Lloyd Dallas is the director of a theatre company. He is desperately trying to pull his latest production together considerably hampered by cast and crew
1 March 2016–12 March 2016
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Noel Coward adapted by Emma Rice
Your heart dances. The world seems strange and new. You want to laugh and skip and fall forever… You are in love
4 December 2015–12 December 2015
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
A delightful tangle of deceit and misunderstanding.
30 October 2015–7 November 2015
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by John Godber
Al and Bet’s relationship is on the rocks. He has recently lost his job, she works in a shoe shop and can only dream of a better life, but things are about to change.
25 September 2015–3 October 2015
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Noel Coward
Researching for his new novel, Charles Condomine invites the implausible medium Madame Arcati to his house for a séance.
12 June 2015–20 June 2015
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Graham Linehan
The story of the eccentric little old lady Mrs Wilberforce who lives alone with her parrots in a strange lopsided house in King’s Cross
9 March 2015–21 March 2015
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Willy Russell
A hilarious, and often moving, story of a woman’s determination to change her life.
14 January 2015–17 January 2015
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer
Alice and Hugo are back from honeymoon, a unique Nativity play is planned for Christmas eve…
4 December 2014–13 December 2014
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by J.B. Priestley
Written in 1934, it is set about thirty years earlier, and depicts the consequences when three middle-aged couples jointly celebrating their silver weddings are informed that they were not legally married.
13 June 2014–21 June 2014
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett’s award winning monologues from the classic BBC TV series
2 June 2014–7 June 2014
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This fast paced and hilarious spoof production offers a brand-new twist on one of the greatest detective stories of all time.
4 April 2014–12 April 2014
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Charles Dickens adapted by Mark Carey
The story of Ebenezer Scrooge
2 December 2013–7 December 2013
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft
Set in a small French café during the Nazi occupation in World War II, the show parodied the wartime drama Secret Army.
10 June 2013–22 June 2013
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Richard Curtiss & Paul Mayhew-Archer
A culture clash between the modern, fun-loving, and chocolate-obsessed Geraldine and the conservative residents of the small parish.
4 March 2013–9 March 2013
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
Four days of a profoundly dysfunctional family’s Christmas holiday in a suburban English home,
3 December 2012–8 December 2012
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Richard Everett
The story follows Grace, a long-serving vicar’s wife who is newly widowed.
8 October 2012–13 October 2012
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Galton & Simpson adapted by David Mears
The Bedsitter, The Radio Ham & The Poetry Society
17 September 2012–22 September 2012
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Sue Townsend
The story follows a self-help group for people with agoraphobia, who are forced by their former-agoraphobic group leader to set up a rummage sale in a church hall.
11 June 2012–16 June 2012
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
From high farce to poignant observation; the laughs, however dark, keep coming.
16 April 2012–21 April 2012
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by Jimmy Perry & David Croft
The plot follows Captain Mainwaring, Sergeant Wilson, and the rest of the platoon as they contend with the Germans and local ARP Warden Hodges.
20 February 2012–25 February 2012
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon
Written by A. A. Milne
Toad becomes uncontrollably obsessed with speed, and specifically cars
26 July 2010–31 July 2010
A Bear Pit Theatre Company Production
@ The Bear Pit Theatre - Stratford-upon-Avon