Nancy sent her youngest daughter Rhona to her Grandmother's house. She never got there. Nancy retreats into a state of frozen hope. Twenty years later an American psychologist, researching her thesis, encounters Ralph, a proven serial killer of young girls. Nancy must face the unthinkable and make impossible choices when the chance arises to meet her daughter's killer. Drawn together by horrific circumstances the three characters embark on a dark journey which finally curves up into light. Ultimately uplifting, this is an extraordinary play, sensitively and sympathetically written.

CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT - NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS.

Please note that there will be a FREE question and answer session with the Director and Cast, after the performance on Thursday 23rd February. This is open to anyone watching the production at some point in the week (not just Thursday's audience).

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Ladies' Day is an exuberant up-to-the-minute comedy, and with its Yorkshire heart and soul it has all the warmth of Calendar Girls or The Full Monty.

Life is one hard slog for four ladies who work in a fish-filleting factory. Their fortunes are set to change when one of them finds tickets to Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot the year it relocaed to York. Out go the hairnets, overalls and wellies as the four ditch work, do themselves up to the nines and head off to the races for a drink, a flirt and a flutter. If their luck holds, they could hit the jackpot - and more besides...

NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 10 YEARS.

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A spectacular, fast paced and engaging magic comedy and illusion show, performed by double act “Young and Strange”. This show features state of the art stage illusions and intimate sleight of hand magic effects never seen before at The Plaza. The show is entwined with a comedy thread with the emphasis being pure entertainment. Young & Strange were recently featured performers on ITV1′s Penn and Teller: Fool Us.

NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 8 YEARS.

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The well know science showman Ian B Dunne brings his unique talents to the Plaza for the first time. The stand-up one man shows Ian B Dunne presents are entertaining... hold on, that is not the right word. They are more than that; engaging, amusing and inspiring.

Shows such as Science Magic...Magic Science , Science...The Best Bits” and many more have been seen and appreciated all over the country and now he has combined some of his favourite material into a double length show.

Demonstrations to make them gasp

Pictures to transport the mind

Specimens to catch the imagination

From infants to infinity putting the Fizz into Physics, the Mystery into Chemistry and the Yuck into Biology. 

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The final collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of spirit, gradually captures the heart of the stern Captain, and they marry. Upon returning from their honeymoon they discover that Austria has been invaded by the Nazis, who demand the Captain's immediate service in their navy. The family's narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre. The motion picture version remains the most popular movie musical of all time.

NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS.

A knock-dead funny, brutally well constructed farce of drink, desolation and class warfare from Britain's master of satire. In this hilarious dark comedy we eavesdrop on three couples over three successive 1970s Christmas Eves: the social climbing Hopcrofts in their gadget-filled kitchen,  the relationship-troubled Jacksons in their neglected fourth floor flat and the laconic Brewster-Wrights in their Victorian style home. Add a mad dog, a dirty oven and some inappropriate party games and the result is classic Ayckbourn at his very best.

"Alan Ayckbourn has the writer’s supreme gift of being able to successfully coat the wryly bitter pill of social comment with a delicious confection of drollery….An exquisitely funny play"  The Stage

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Set in the 1930s - as was Brian Friel's masterpiece Dancing At Lughnasa - this is the story of an Irish faith healer (the Fantastic Francis Hardy) travelling through the villages and small towns of Scotland and Wales. The story is told in mesmerising fashion by the man himself, his wife (Grace), and his manager (Teddy). Each of them has a quite different, compelling, version of the same events. Events that lead to a final, mysterious, crisis.

"This is a wonderful play ... I cannot recommend it too highly". - The Daily Telegraph

Not suitable for children under 10 years of age.

RAODS now brings Dumas' swashbuckling adventure to the stage in a lively and fast moving, tongue-in-cheek, version. D'Artagnan, a poor young Gascon gentleman, gos to Paris to join King Louis XIII's Musketeers, is befriended by three valiant members of that force, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. He shares the adventures, foiling the evil plans of Cardinal Richelieu and M'lady de Winter to discredit Louis' wife Anne and expose her love for the Duke of Buckingham.

Not suitable for children under 5 years of age.

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Who doesn't know the story of Oliver Twist? Lionel Bart's version of the story has been with us since 1960, and was made world famous by the 1968 film. Food Glorious Food, I'd Do Anything, You've Got To Pick a Pocket Or Two - the list of famous songs goes on and on.

Not suitable for children under 3 years of age.

A RAODS YOUTH PRODUCTION

Family Tickets (2 adults, 2 children) available for £30.

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Hilarious spoof of (particularly) the Alfred Hitchcock film version, the show has been playing to packed houses in the West End – and no wonder. The small cast play over 100 parts, and generate much madness. This first run will be at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall – with a short second run at the Plaza.

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An evening of 2 monologues, – both in the Alan Bennett tradition of mixing life’s laughter and tears. In the first, a young trainspotter lets us into his secrets, and his world. And in the second, in a part memorably performed by Dawn French, we follow the rocky (and at times hilarious) road travelled by a divorcee.

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Based on the real life Chicken Ranch in Texas ... it is the late 1970s, and a century-old brothel is run by Miss Mona Stangley, who was left it by the original owner. While taking care of her girls, she is also on good terms with the local sheriff, Ed Earl Dodd. When a local TV reporter decides to make the illegal activity an issue, pressure increases to close the place down.

Opening on Broadway in 1978, the stage show ran for over 1,500 performances and won several Tony awards. It was then made into a film in 1982, with a memorable performance by Dolly Parton! Both on, and off, stage - a great deal of (surprisingly innocent) fun!  

"A cheerful, tuneful, deeply sentimental American musical." Michael Billington, Guardian

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Set over 24 hours in London in ‘the present day’ (1895 – when it was written), Wilde’s comedy includes blackmail and political corruption. But, he also said about the play “No one should be entirely judged by their past”.

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A class of 7 year olds perform their nativity play — squabbles arise as Gabriel wants to play Mary, the Star grumbles he's not a proper star like they have at NASA, Herod won't stop waving to his mum, and then the stick insect escapes. The cast of adults play both the children and their parents. "There are moments when you may wet yourself laughing". Alfred Hickling, Guardian

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