Pickering and District Arts have a full and varied programme of Theatre at the Friends Meeting House, Castelegate,  Pickering, this autumn. 

          On Saturday 13th September, The Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, will be performing two one act plays, ‘Cover Her Feet’ and ‘Fly in the Ointment’, with John Mahony and Charity Reindorp and by Nick Warburton. Bobby is an ordinary middle-aged man. His wife, Doreen, bought him life coaching sessions for his birthday to help him become more interesting. But she may have got more than she bargained for! Is Bobby's life-coach Lexi all she appears to be? And will Bobby ever grasp the self-help and be able to stand up for himself? Lexi works at a life coach studio. She is young, stylish and confident. So when ordinary middle-aged Bobby walks into her life, she sees him as a nuisance. But is Bobby the man to provide her with guidance? Teach her to be a better person? And is it always better to tell the truth? The performance starts at 7-30pm. Tickets £10, available from Television House.

          On Saturday 11th October, we are pleased to welcome back the Rat-a-Tat Theatre Company with their acclaimed performance of ‘Not About Heroes.’ Siegried Sassoon looks back on the first meeting with Wilfred Owen, in Craiglockhart War Hospital during the summer and autumn of 1917. Sassoon and Owen were to  become very close friends during their time together, only to have this friendship cruelly cut short, when a sniper killed Owen, just one week before the armistice.  The performance starts at 7-30pm. Tickets £8, available from Television House.       

Finally, on Friday 7th of November we present Liz Rothschild in ‘Another Kind of Silence’. This is a story of love, the ocean, politics and birdsong. Liz Rothschild plays Rachel Carson, writer and ecologist, who came into sharp conflict with vested commercial and government interests in 1960’s America. Resonant, shocking, beautiful. The performance starts at 7-30pm. Tickets £8, available from Television House, Tel 01751 472847

Alan Avery