by Jean Anouilh, translated by Lucienne Hill

directed by Gregan Davis

Who killed the Cook?

The Police Chief would like to know, naturally.

The gentry would prefer not to - on account, you understand, of the scandal.

The servants know, of course, and won’t tell.

And the Author, who might be presumed to know also, considers the question supremely unimportant. He has other worries besides the paltry matter of who killed whom.

The Author, in fact, is present every night, watching to see that the Police Chief and the actors don’t ruin his play. He has an anxious time of it because:

a) His principal character gets killed before the play even opens.

b) He hasn’t really managed to write the play.

c) The Police Chief keeps trying to rewrite it.

And on top of it all, there’s the audience. They have been coming to see his plays for thirty years now - what are they going to think? Nobody but he seems to care about this either. His characters go their own ways, loving, laughing, suffering, dying.

In the end, will he leave it - as all playwrights must - to them?

RADS present Jean Anouilh’s upstairs-downstairs masterpiece comic drama exploring the relationship between reality and illusion - don’t miss it!

Thu 5th to Sat 7th November 2026

Wed 17th to Sat 22nd March 2027

   by Danny Robins

directed by Scott Fenney

‘There’s something in our house. I hear it every night, at the same time.’

RADS invite you to ask yourself the question:

‘What do you believe, and do you dare discover the truth?

Jenny and Sam - and their baby Phoebe - have recently moved into their new home. But something feels frightening and wrong. Very wrong. Over the baby monitor, at 2:22 every night, Jenny hears footsteps around her daughter’s cot. Could the house be haunted?

When their friends Lauren and Ben come round for a house-warming dinner, they drink wine, relive their pasts, and argue about the existence of ghosts. They decide to stay up until 2:22, to discover the truth. Over one adrenaline-filled night - as the foxes scream outside - secrets will emerge and ghosts may appear…

Spine-chilling, funny and scary, 2:22 was premiered at the Noël Coward Theatre in 2021, and won Best New Play at the WhatsOnStage Awards. Danny Robins is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, journalist and creator of the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist.