WOMBWELL THESPIANS CENTENARY YEAR!!

MARCH 5th to 7th 2026

7.30pm

Adapted by David Muncaster

From The Original Black Comedy Play By John Willard

A warning echoes: “For God’s sake, stay in your rooms and lock the doors!” When a group of prospective heirs gathers in a grim, antiquated mansion to discover who will inherit a vast fortune, they soon realize a flesh‑rending maniac is on the loose, turning the inheritance hunt into a deadly nightmare!

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MAY 21st to 23rd

Wombwell Thespians

Present

“MEN OF THE WORLD”

A Comedy

By John Godber

(By Arrangement with Concord Theatricals UK Ltd)

Preparing for a mystery trip to Scarborough (“She wouldn’t book till Dennis told her where we were going”), three northern coach drivers pass the time remembering more exciting trips from the past, such as the last one, down the Rhine Valley to Heidelberg.

Stick hates his passengers and wishes he was doing the Spanish run instead of Johnny Mac. Larry is a Mario Lanza fan who’s been making trips for as long as anyone can remember. Frank (“don’t ask – it’ll only shock you!”) is their female counterpart.

We meet an assortment of passengers, from the dotty old complainers to the retired miners seeking excitement too late and on too little money. Escape is on everyone’s mind but no-one knows quite what they’re escaping from and how to go about it. As Sissy says, it is “better going somewhere when you’re seventy-nine than going nowhere”.

A touching, often hilarious, bitter-sweet play, full of John Godber’s usual clever and perceptive view of “Men of the World”.

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