STILL THE WIND ONE - A fully rehearsed play reading with light- sound and set starring the iconic MADELINE SMITH and local hero FRANCIS SAUNDER S- ONE NIGHT ONLY 11/09/2026 at The Stables Theatre in Hastings - Tickets on sale now https://stablestheatre.co.uk/still-the-wild-one/

`SYNOPSIS - Set in Le Café Français in Cricklewood, Still the Wild One follows Sally, a fiery 75‑year‑old artist whose sharp wit and wandering memory spill her life story across the café tables. As she chats to the audience, we glimpse her journey from red‑haired “wild child” of Welwyn Garden City, through the glamour and chaos of 1960s London, to bohemian exile in rural Wales. Her stories of love, loss, children, art and survival are by urns hilarious and heartbreaking. In Act Two, she meets Danny, a big‑hearted bricklayer and poet, whose working‑class swagger and tenderness ignite a late‑life romance that is as unlikely as it is true. Moving between past and present, lucidity and confusion, the play celebrates one woman’s refusal to be tamed – proving she is, even now, still the wild one.

BRONSON - THE PLAY - KINO THEATRE 15th and 16th October - Tickets on sale now from the KINO Box Office!!!!

BRONSON — THE PLAY 

Written & Performed by Francis Saunders
Directed by Sean Broughton
Assistant Director: Dean Stalham
Produced by Jo Morgan
Music by De Crâne

Something seriously exciting is happening with BRONSON.

The collaboration between this team is off the hook. Everyone is bringing something different into the room — performance, direction, writing, movement, music and ideas — and the play is developing into something raw, theatrical and completely its own.

BRONSON is a one-man stage play inspired by the extraordinary story and mythology surrounding one of Britain’s most notorious prisoners.

But this isn’t simply a story about violence.

It’s about identity. Isolation. Masculinity. Survival. Fame. Art. Anger. And what happens to a human being when the walls keep closing in.

Through a series of characters, memories and confrontations, Francis Saunders takes the audience inside the mind of a man who enters prison as Michael Peterson and gradually creates another identity — Bronson.

The play moves between brutality and humour, vulnerability and madness, asking a bigger question:

Was Bronson born — or did the system create him?

One actor.
Multiple personalities.
One cell.
One extraordinary journey.

What this team is creating together is intense, funny, uncomfortable and unexpectedly moving.

BRONSON — THE PLAY

Coming to the stage.

You don’t just watch him enter the cell.
You enter it with him.

MONOLOGUES OF MEN - From a triumphant run in London - Coming to The Stables on the 30th and 31st October 2026 - A powerful stage play when men share the inner voice thoughts that normally get Locked away  - Saunders shares with Stalham a gift for authentically and powerfully capturing the inner feelings of men, feelings for which they have no outlet in their everyday lives. There is an underlying sense of a kind of crisis of masculinity where the very definition of what it is to be a man is contested. https://thepegreview.com/2026/03/31/%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85the-trouble-with-men/

CELLULOID - The Play on at The Olde Red Lion in Angel Islington - 2nd and 3rd November - Written and Directed By Dean Stalham - Starring Jane Gull and Vanessa Koster- Goodliffe - Tickets on sale now https://weareoldred.co.uk/whats-on/cellular/

When overcrowding forces two very different women to share a prison cell, neither is particularly pleased to discover she has a new roommate.

Marj has already served ten years of a life sentence for the murder of her abusive husband. Tough, funny and fiercely independent, she has learned how to survive prison — and how to survive herself. She knows every rule, every shortcut and every kind of prison bullshit. More importantly, after a decade behind bars, she has begun to wonder who she will be if she ever gets out.

Veronica, middle class, articulate and accustomed to a very different kind of life, has arrived in prison after being convicted of mortgage fraud. She is appalled by the indignities of prison life and initially convinced that she simply doesn’t belong there. Marj finds her pretentious. Veronica finds Marj impossible.

Thrown together by circumstances neither has chosen, the two women slowly begin to dismantle each other’s assumptions. Their arguments, unlikely companionship and increasingly intimate conversations reveal two women at very different stages of their lives — one who has spent years adapting to confinement, and one desperately trying not to.

As their relationship deepens, the cell becomes a strange little world of its own: sometimes funny, sometimes brutal, occasionally tender. Secrets emerge, loyalties shift, and both women are forced to confront uncomfortable truths about who they were, who they have become and what freedom might actually mean.

Cellular is a serious, darkly comic two-hander about friendship, identity, class and the unexpected intimacy of being trapped with a stranger — a story in which the real sentence is not necessarily the one handed down by a court.