Belfrey Theatre – Wellington

The Shropshire Drama Festival. (a first round festival of the All England Theatre Festival) The festival is held every Spring and showcases the best theatrical talent from around the county. Two or three one-act plays are shown each evening and a professional adjudicator is on hand to give the competing teams the benefit of his comments. The festival ends with an awards evening where individual and group talent is singled out for the presentation of various awards. The competition is organised into adult and youth categories and the winners can go on to represent Shropshire in the All England Theatre […]

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical thriller set in 19th century England. The show tells the story of Sweeney Todd’s return to London after 15 years of exile. He comes back in order to take revenge on the corrupt judge who banished him, by conspiring with a local baker, Mrs. Lovett, who is in desperate need of fresh meat for her pies! Sweeney Todd won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Olivier Award for Best New Musical. BOX OFFICE:- boxoffice@belfreytheatre.com or 01952 222277

A darkly comic farce featuring policemen, a mad old couple, some local chavs, a chihuahua and a vicar! Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil before they can finish their Christmas eve shift; telling the elderly couple at No. 58 some terrible news. But what if the shock is too much for them? Blunt and Gobbel didn’t join up in order to ruin people’s lives. Maybe they’d be happier not knowing. And maybe it would all be much easier if the two constables weren’t also stuck in the middle of a full-scale village lynch-mob.   BOX OFFICE:- […]

Packed with sensational singing and dancing, laugh-out-loud comedy, and an Aladdin’s cave of lavish sets and costumes, this season’s pantomime is everything you could wish for! Book your seats now for a magic carpet ride you won’t want to miss! BOX OFFICE:- boxoffice@belfreytheatre.com or 01952 222277

  Packed with sensational singing and dancing, laugh-out-loud comedy, and an Aladdin’s cave of lavish sets and costumes, this season’s pantomime is everything you could wish for! Book your seats now for a magic carpet ride you won’t want to miss! BOX OFFICE:- boxoffice@belfreytheatre.com or 01952 222277

This is the true story of a village in Derbyshire set in 1665 during the aftermath of the English Civil War. There is tension in the air due to the presence in the village of rectors from opposing factions. The local tailor takes delivery of a box of wet clothes from London which he dries in front of the fire. The next day he’s dead from a mysterious, unsightly disease. Over the next few months many more people die, and it is a while before anybody realizes that this disease is the dreaded plague. The severity of the outbreak calls […]