Our next production

The Marlborough Players next production is Alan Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends from Thursday 26th to Saturday 28th March 2026 at Marlborough Town Hall.

Directed by Rhian Vaughan-Webb, this is a play with subtle humour and underlying themes of unhappy marriages and lost opportunity. A tea party has been organised for Colin, whose fiancé has recently drowned, with the aim to cheer him up with a gathering of old friends. However, his seemingly blissful acceptance of his loss exposes the deep-seated unhappiness, infidelity, and resentments within the group, highlighting how his “perfect” memory of love contrasts with their decaying relationships, leading to awkwardness and eventual emotional outbursts as their hidden problems surface under his oblivious presence.