Current Productions
Summer Open Air Season 2026
Romeo and Juliet
Penshurst Place, Tonbridge, Kent TN11 8DG – Friday 3rd July 7pm
Hoveton Hall Gardens, Hoveton Hall Estate, Norwich NR12 8RJ – Saturday 4th July 6pm
Willow Globe, Penlanole, Llanwrthwl, Llandrindod Wells LD1 6NN – Friday 31st July 7pm
Soulton Hall, Wem, Shropshire SY4 5RS- Sunday 2nd August 3pm
The Arches Theatre, Church Farm, Clifton Reynes, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5DT – Saturday 8th August 2pm
Roxwell Sensory Garden, St Michael & All Angels Church, Roxwell, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 4PA – Saturday 15th August 5pm
Dracula
Soulton Hall, Wem, Shropshire SY4 5RS – Saturday 1st August 6pm
The Arches Theatre, Church Farm, Clifton Reynes, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5DT, – Saturday 8th August 7pm
Brighton Open Air Theatre, Dyke Road, Hove BN3 6EH – Thursday 3rd September 7pm
Broomfield Bowl, Palmers Green, London N13 4PL – Saturday 12th September 4pm
The Horrors Of Hell House
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World premiere of a new play by Tim Connery directed by Andrew Hobbs
Bridge House Theatre, London 5th-23rd May 2026
Book tickets here
It is 1970. The sixties are dead, the seventies are waiting in the wings, and four actors and a director have retreated to a remote English manor house to rehearse a new Hammer-style horror film: The Horrors of Hell House. Cloaks, candles and the occult are the order of the day.
The location is Hellenic House – known locally as Hell House – a vast, decaying stately home with a presence all of its own. As rehearsals begin, familiar tensions surface. Egos clash, insecurities fester, ambitions run wild, with the Beatles broken up and decimalisation looming, everything feels unsteady.
Then Hell House begins to push back.
Strange occurrences interrupt rehearsals, rituals seem a little too authentic, and the line between performance and reality starts to blur. As unease spreads through the company it becomes clear that the house is not the only thing keeping secrets, and that some games being played are far more dangerous than they appear.
Packed with eccentric characters, period film and television in-jokes, genuine occult trappings and supernatural mischief, The Haunting of Hell House is a darkly comic, unsettling and affectionate homage to 1970s British horror where satire, suspense and the absurd collide.
The Horrors of Hell House comes from the pen of Bridge House Theatre regular Tim Connery (Penge West, Masterclass, What A Gay Day!) and is directed by British Touring Shakespeare’s Andrew Hobbs whose gothic productions (Frankenstein, Jekyll & Hyde, Dracula) have been chilling Bridge House audiences over Halloween for years.