Social activities include:

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 * Play readings

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 * Theatre outings

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 * Our AGM and games afternoon held every summer

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Play readings are held in the Garden Room at the Mill on the first Sunday of alternate months through the year, starting at 5.30 pm. The programme for 2026 is as follows:

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Sunday 1 February

The Welkin

Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley's Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she's telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose. With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the devil in their midst. Lucy Kirkwood's play The Welkin premiered at the National Theatre in January 2020. Tom Parrott will lead.

 

Sunday 5 April

Shadowlands

This West End and Broadway hit is the love story of C.S. Lewis - Oxford don and author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters - and American poet Joy Davidman. Jack Lewis is clear in his convictions about God and His plan for the world until Joy and her young son enter his life and the bewildered theoretician of love in the abstract finally confronts its direct presence. David Greenwood will lead.

 

Sunday 7 June

Our Town

Written in 1938 and described as “the greatest American play ever written”, Thornton Wilder’s masterpiece introduces us to Grover’s Corners, a quiet little town, full of ordinary folk, living everyday lives. They work, they laugh, they sing, they fall in love and raise their children, and grow old. But within those moments of ordinary, everyday life, there are truths that reach out to us all. And a passionate demand to cherish every moment, right now, while we still can. Sally Waghorn will lead.

Sunday 2 August

Arcadia

Tom Stoppard died in November 2025; he was one of the finest playwrights of his generation. First performed in 1993 and about to be revived at the Old Vic, Arcadia is considered his masterpiece. In a country house, two centuries apart, genius unfolds. A teenage prodigy discovers the mathematics of the universe, as the adults around her fail to hide their passions under reason. In the present day, scholars chase the ghosts of that same household — seeking truth, proof and perhaps each other. David Greenwood will lead.

Sunday 11 October

Ballet Shoes

This stage version of the classic novel was recently performed at the National Theatre.  In a crumbling house full of dinosaur bones and fossils, three adopted sisters – Pauline, Petrova and Posy – are learning who they are and what they want to be. Under the watchful eyes and guidance of their guardian Sylvia, Nana, and some unlikely lodgers, they fight to pursue their individual passions. But in a world that wasn’t built for women with big ambitions, can they forge a future, keep their family together, and even learn a dance or two along the way? Kim Seymour will lead.

 

Sunday 6 December

It’s a Wonderful Life

“Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.” Christmas Eve 1946. Bedford Falls. Down on his luck banker, George Bailey, feels life has passed him by and is at the end of his rope. But when Clarence, George’s guardian angel, pays him a visit he is amazed to discover what life in his beloved town would have been without him. Maybe it’s a wonderful life after all ? Based on Frank Capra’s iconic film, Mary Elliott Nelson’s reimagining is a joyful story of love, hope and community. David Greenwood will lead.

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