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Lyndhurst Drama and Musical Society  Vernon Theatre, LyndhurstDarren Funnell 19 April 2026 There’s something instantly comforting about settling in for a stage version of The Good Life. You arrive already knowing the world: the veg patches, the social awkwardness, and that quietly tempting fantasy of telling your job you’re off to raise piglets instead. This adaptation by Jeremy Same, directed by Phil Rainforth, sensibly avoids trying to recreate the TV show line-for-line and instead lets it feel like a piece of theatre. Which is a relief, because two hours of impersonations would feel less like drama and more like a tribute night at

Lyndhurst Drama & Musical Society    Vernon Theatre, Lyndhurst Darren Funnell 17 October 2025 Lyndhurst Drama and Musical Society’s version of The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow is a cheeky adaptation of Hitchcock’s 1935 thriller which turns high-stakes espionage into well-polished anarchy. Richard Hannay, a suave but spectacularly unlucky English gent, blessed with a “very attractive pencil moustache and nothing much else to do”, becomes entangled in a plot involving a mysterious woman, a murder, and something called, with great significance, ‘The 39 Steps’.  It’s less “wrong man on the run” and more “wrong/right prop in the wrong/right place at the

Lyndhurst Drama & Musical Society  Vernon Theatre, LyndhurstDarren Funnell 10 July 2025 What do you get when you combine Jane Austen, high-fives, fan etiquette, and a reference to Toys R Us? You get Pride, Prejudice and Other Useful Qualities. A witty, unpredictable production from Lyndhurst Dramatic and Musical Society, celebrating 75 years of theatrical flair and 250 years of Jane Austen. It’s a clever way of bringing two major achievements together over a free celebratory glass of Prosecco (or two). Special credit goes to Hannah Rodgers and Richard Barnett, who, in Part 1, brilliantly fuse the 75-year theatrical journey of Lyndhurst Dramatic