The oneACTS 2020 will now be the oneACTS 2021 – Dates will be announced in due course. In the meantime here’s a taster of what’s to come next year…

Robots, romance, a murder-mystery, downsizing, a homicidal insurance salesman, gender reassignment, Kindertransport and taking a stand are the subjects of this year’s oneACTS festival.

Expect drama, comedy, mystery and mayhem as local actors, directors and playwrights bring eight new plays to the cornerHOUSE in Douglas Road, Surbiton.

Four short plays on one night will alternate with four on another in the arts centre’s week-long showcase of original playwriting which runs from Monday, April 27 to Saturday, May 2 at 7.45pm.

Tickets for the festival, now in its 14^th year, cost £10 (£8 concessions) and are available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/thecornerhouseevents

For the performance run and more details about each play see below.

 Performance run: Monday, April 27 to Saturday, May 2

 Monday/Wednesday/Friday

 Time Share Partner by Dermot Murphy – directed by Jon Constant

Clothes Make The Man by L.A. Green – directed by Jackie Davies

Interval

Single Issue by Michael Staniforth – directed by Sheryl Hill

Three Into One Won’t Go? by Norman Marks – directed by Graham Large

About the plays 

Time Share Partner – After many bad experiences, Cheryl has found the man of her dreams.  As she sits in a hotel lobby, waiting to meet someone, she tells us about the romance and her plan to ensure she does not lose him.

Clothes Make the Man – Wayne until recently was known as Marion and is starting gender reassignment.  His sister Melissa is helping him buy clothes to begin his new journey in life. By the end of their time at the charity shop, Wayne is one step closer to knowing who he is and who he wants to be, while Melissa understands her new brother much better.

Single Issue – Rob has taken a stand. Is that praiseworthy or unfair on his wife and only daughter?  And will their voices be drowned out by the unexpected newcomer?  Single Issue is a tense drama about private passions and the public purse.

Three into One Won’t Go? – Lady Cecily’s calm in the drawing room of Largeleat Manor is interrupted by the announcement of her husband’s death. An investigation ensues led by Detective Inspector French. The unexpected answer to the mysterious death of Sir Howard Donne-Rutting comes from an equally unexpected source.