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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

Lyndhurst Drama & Music Society  Vernon Theatre, Lyndhurst Darren Funnell 24 April 2025 It’s not every day you find yourself watching four middle-aged women stranded on an island with nothing but a compass, a questionable map, cryptic confusion reluctantly surviving without a mobile signal, still recovering from flashbacks of office icebreakers, laced with passive aggression and years of unspoken corporate resentment.  Sheila’s Island, by Tim Firth, currently playing at Vernon Theatre by the Lyndhurst Drama and Musical Society until 26th April 2025 is a wonderfully relatable, often riotous exploration of female friendship, middle-aged frustration, and the perils of trusting Sheila. Somewhere