Jumpers for Goalposts

By Tom Wells

Wednesday 25th - Saturday 28th March 2026

Jumpers for Goalposts by Tom Wells is a warm, funny, and deeply moving play about friendship, community, and the quiet importance of belonging.

Set around a Sunday league football team over the course of a season, the play uses grassroots football as the backdrop for a story about ordinary people navigating change. As life off the pitch becomes more complicated, the team becomes a place of refuge — somewhere to show up, be counted, and feel part of something.

With gentle humour and naturalistic dialogue, Jumpers for Goalposts explores themes of masculinity, mental health, loyalty, and the bonds that hold communities together. Football knowledge isn’t required; this is a human story first and foremost, rich in heart, nostalgia, and understated emotion. Jumpers for Goalposts is a celebration of the small rituals and shared spaces that give life meaning.

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