5 September 2026 – The Settlement Players’ Open Evening

An evening of fun, laughter and drama to launch our 2026/27 season. Featuring two short plays as well as other performances from our talented members.

Tickets are only £5 and this includes a free drink! Tickets can be purchased in advance online with no booking fee or bought on the door.

12-14 November 2026
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story adapted by Mark Gatiss

It’s Christmas Eve. As the cold, bleak night draws in, the penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the spirit of his former business partner, Jacob Marley.

Bound in chains as punishment for a lifetime of greed, the unearthly figure explains it isn’t too late for Scrooge to change his miserly ways in order to escape the same fate. But first he’ll have to face three more eerie encounters…

Mark Gatiss’ spine-tingling adaptation is faithful to the heart and spirit of Charles Dickens’ much-loved festive ghost story – with an emphasis on the ghostly.

11 – 13 March 2027
The Lightest Element by Stella Feehily

‘Nothing compares with being the first person in the history of the world to see something, but timing is everything. The world has to be ready for you.’

Boston, 1956. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, one of the most eminent astronomers of the twentieth century, is about to be appointed Chair of Astronomy and the first woman to head a department at Harvard University. Only two things stand in her way: a covert investigation aimed at exposing her as a Communist sympathiser, and the entrenched conservatism of her male colleagues.

When a student journalist asks to profile her, it feels like an opportunity to control her own narrative – assuming, of course, that the invitation is actually what it seems…

Stella Feehily’s play The Lightest Element is a taut drama exploring how a challenge to social norms can be almost as difficult as overturning scientific orthodoxy.

17 – 19 June 2027
Show to be announced

The Settlement adult education centre and The Little Theatre