STOP PRESS: Due to the rescheduled dates for Saturday Night Fever recently announced, the following production of Betty Blues Eyes will be postponed, pending a further update.

All ticket holders will be contacted in due course to inform them of next steps, and we ask that all customers retain their tickets at this time. 

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. 

The ESNA Players present

Early Bird Tickets until 30th April

Standard: £18

Concessions: £16 (Tues, Wed, Thurs & Sat Matinee)

It’s 1947, belts are being tightened and the country’s long-suffering citizens are being told by the government that there will be fair shares for all in return for surviving Austerity Britain. Meanwhile local officials feather their own nests by taking far more than their own fair share. It is of course 1947, and having won the war Britain seems to have lost the peace, and the country is staggering under the burden of acute rationing, unemployment and the coldest winter for decades. The only bright spark on the horizon is the impending marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

Twenty six years ago Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray wove this story into a hilariously funny but sharply observed comic film called A Private Function, which centred around Betty, an adorable pig, who is being illegally reared to ensure the local dignitaries can celebrate the Royal Wedding with a lavish banquet while the local population make do with Spam. The result is an utterly British musical, full of eccentric characters, such as the strange odd couple, Gilbert – an evangelistic chiropodist, and Joyce – a nobody determined to be somebody; Inspector Wormold - an obsessive destroyer of illegal meat; Mother Dear – ‘She’s seventy four and ravenous’; along with a weird assortment of bullies, spivs and snobs and of course, the star, Betty the pig. 

THIS SHOW IS A MUST!

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