The Pump House

A delightful comedy about Book-lover, Bella.She is hosting the first night of her Barmy Book Club in a fabulous Vintage Theatre.She is expecting an interview with the BBC, but she is NOT expecting…The Theatres resident ghost!!Add to the mix, an mix of new members and a relentless Ghost-Hunter, and we have the makings of a very entertaining evening!

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A VE Day Celebration with music, comedy and dramaat:The Pump House Theatre, Watford, Herts WD17 2JPThis show was originally set to run from May 20th to 23rd 2020 but will instead be performed on 21st to 24th October 2020.Performances: Nightly @ 7.45 pm plus Saturday Matinee @ 2.45 pmTickets:Standard: �14.00 and �13.50Concessions �12.50 and �12.00 (Over 60/under 18).Comedy-drama about an all-female theatre company who tour Britain during World War 2. While the men are fighting Hitler and the bombs are falling on London, this group sets out in an old Rolls-Royce to entertain a culture -starved Britain. The Show commemorates the 75th Anniversary of VE Day.English actress Imogen Stubbs wrote We Happy Few, her first play, in 2004.There isnt a sweeter, warmer, more-likeable play in London- The TimesThe show is performed by Watfords multi-award winning amateur theatre group, Belmont Theatre.Our last show The Unexpected Guest sold out in record time.Book on-line for WE HAPPY FEW via Ticketsource NOW. Telephone Box Office for October show opens 1st July on 07917 324179

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Grown women, aching feet and heaving bosoms!Follow the Cheshire Cats team as they attempt to speed walk their way to fundraising success in the annual London Moonwalk.Hilary, Siobhan, Yvonne, Vicky and Maggie are attempting to walk 13 miles across the capital in record time in their decorated bras and posh new trainers, but the sixth member of the team doesnt seem to meet the physical criteria!Cheshire Cats is a cross between a girls night out and a real mission to support a cause close to many hearts, with plenty of laughs and a few tears along the way.Moving, emotional, poignant, and best of all it makes you laugh… -Chester Chronicle

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Rickmansworth Players will be performing Far from the Madding Crowd' at the Pump House Watford from the 28th April - 2nd May 2020Far From The Madding Crowd is a vibrant insight into life in Dorchester and Thomas Hardys England. We are transported along the road by the journey of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene, probably the first great feminist role in the theatre, as she fights to be independent in a man's world and deal with three different suitors and a huge farm that she inherits.Thomas Hardy's epic tale of love, tragedy, desire and regret was specially adapted for the English Touring Theatre by Mark Healy and this production will tell the iconic story through vivid stage effects, powerful scenes, wonderful dancing and movement and spectacular music from the period.Featuring a talented cast, Rickmansworth Players are proud to present a theatrical adaptation of this fascinating story, which is not to be missed.

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Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect �6,000 from the dad of his fiancee. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who has been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed up at The Cricketers Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be reunited with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple. Based on the classic Italian comedy The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, in this new English version by prizewinning playwright Richard Bean, with songs and music by Grant Olding, sex, food and money are high on the agenda. One Man, Two Guvnors opened at the National Theatre 17th May 2011 to critical acclaim, before transferring to the West End and embarking on a successful UK tour.

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This compelling one-man show by Mark Stratford, charts the life and times of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor-managers of the 19th Century.With humour, drama, emotion, and an array of characters, Stratford takes us on Macreadys journey from his first tentative steps on stage in a tatty country theatre to his final ever performance at the mighty Drury Lane.The story of Macready - a First Player in the line of Burbage, Garrick, Kean and Irving - and the man to whom Charles Dickens dedicated Nicholas Nickleby - is one of the most remarkable ever to come out of the Theatre.

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