What's On
Black Mountain
By Brad Birch
COMING IN NOVEMBER
Black Mountain is a tense, psychological thriller by award-winning playwright Brad Birch. First performed in 2017, the play explores the darker side of a failing relationship, focusing on themes of betrayal, infidelity, and the impossibility of forgiveness.
Set high on a remote Welsh mountainside, the play brings together a reclusive farmer and an ambitious English academic. As night falls and a storm closes in, their uneasy meeting becomes a battle of wills, where personal histories, political tensions, and buried fears collide.
Taut and darkly funny, Black Mountain examines nationalism, masculinity, and the stories we tell ourselves to feel secure. What begins as a civil encounter gradually unravels into something far more dangerous. With its stark setting, escalating tension, and sharp dialogue, Black Mountain is an intense, edge-of-your-seat drama.
As a curtain-raiser for Black Mountain we present Sea Wall by Simon Stephens, performed by Ken Jones and directed by Tonya James
Upcoming Events
Drip Action Theatre Trail 25th Anniversary!
During the day, at various venues around Arundel
Saturday 16th - Saturday 23rd August 2025
Tickets £6
Festival Evening Production
The Kitchen Sink
by Tom Wells
Monday 18th - Saturday 23rd August 2025, 7.30pm
The Victoria Institute, Arundel
Tickets £14, £10 students
An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes.
Amid the dreaming, the dramas and the dirty dishes, something has to give. But will it be Kath or the kitchen sink?
Things aren't going to plan for one family in Withernsea, Yorkshire. Pieces are falling off Martin's milk float as quickly as he's losing customers and something's up with Kath's kitchen sink. Billy is pinning his hopes of a place at art college on a revealing portrait of Dolly Parton, whilst Sophie's dreams of becoming a ju-jitsu teacher might be disappearing down the plughole.
'Writing to remember.' Guardian
'This is one of the best new plays I have seen anywhere this year, and I cannot recommend it too highly.' Charles Spencer - Daily Telegraph
'Wells wrings more riches out of seemingly throwaway lines than a lot of writers manage in an entire play.' Evening Standard