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The Simon & Garfunkel
Story // 3 June

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap // 8-13 June
The Mousetrap is famous around the world for being the longest running
show of any kind in the history of theatre and now the 60th anniversary
production is back by popular demand. The scene is set when a group of
people gathered in a country house cut off by the snow discover, to their
horror, that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one
the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerveshredding moment the identity and the motive are finally revealed.
7.45pm (Wednesday and Saturday matinee 2.30pm). Price: £19 £26.50
Devonshire Park Theatre, Chiswick Place, Eastbourne BN21 4BJ
www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk / 01323 415500

Following its West End success
at the Leicester Square Theatre
in February 2015, The Simon and
Garfunkel Story is currently the
biggest and the most successful
No 1 touring theatre show
celebrating the lives and career
of folk/rock sensation Simon and
Garfunkel. Featuring seasoned
West End, award-winning
leading man Dean Elliott and a full cast of talented actor-musicians, The
Simon and Garfunkel Story takes you back through the groovy times of
the 1960s. It tells the story of both Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel from
their humble beginnings as rock ‘n’ roll duo Tom and Jerry, right through
their massive success, dramatic break-up and finishing with a stunning
recreation of the 1981 Central Park reformation concert.
7.30pm. Price: £19
The Hawth, Hawth Avenue, Crawley RH10 6YZ
www.hawth.co.uk / 01293 553636

Tell Me You Love Me
// 4 & 5 June
Professional drama from the BitterSweet
Theatre Company. Set in the 1960s this
candid play delves into the relationship
between a daughter and her alcoholic
mother. This sensitive and entertaining
story portrays the humour, tenderness and
challenges that relationships bring.
7.30pm. Price: £10
The Under Ground Theatre, 1 Grove
Road, Eastbourne BN21 4TL
www.undergroundtheatre.co.uk / 01323 430077

And Then
There Were
None
// 8-13 June
To celebrate the
10th anniversary
of the Agatha
Christie Theatre
Company, her
most popular and
best selling thriller,
And Then There
Were None, is
set to return to
the stage. West
End and TV star
Paul Nicholas will
play judge Sir Lawrence Wargrave. He will be joined by Colin Buchanan
(Dalziel and Pascoe, Dangerous Corner), Susan Penhaligon (Bouquet of
Barbed Wire, A Fine Romance), Mark Curry (Blue Peter, The Woman in
Black), and Frazer Hines (Doctor Who, Emmerdale).
A group of 10 strangers is lured to a remote island off the coast
of Devon. Upon arrival it is discovered that their host, an eccentric
millionaire, is missing. At dinner a recorded message is played accusing
each of them in turn of having a guilty secret and by the end of the
evening the 10 guests become nine. Stranded on the island by a torrential
storm and haunted by an ancient nursery rhyme, one by one the guests
begin to die. And with only the fallen believed to be innocent who
amongst them is the killer?
7.30pm (Wednesday and Saturday matinee 2.30pm).
Price: £29.50
The Hawth Theatre, Hawth Avenue, Crawley RH10 6YZ
www.hawth.co.uk / 01293 553636

The Proclaimers // 6 June
Strikingly individual, twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid have over the
years enjoyed huge successes across the globe and in April this year
release their 10th album on the Cooking Vinyl label. They have carved a
niche for themselves where pop, folk, new wave and punk collide as the
emotional honesty, political fire, wit and sing-along raucousness of their
songs and their extensive touring has enlightened and entertained fans
new and old. Expect to hear the classics “Sunshine on Leith”, “(I’m Gonna
Be) 500 Miles”, “Letter From America”, “I’m on My Way”, “Life With You”,
“Lets Get Married” and more.
7.30pm. Price: £29.50
White Rock Theatre, White Rock, Hastings TN34 1JX
www.whiterocktheatre.org.uk / 01424 462288

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