TABITHA — a comedy thriller by Arnold Ridley and Mary Cathcart Borer
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3 nights 26th, 27th, 28th November 2026.
7:30 pm. Tickets £5.
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It's Christmas Eve, 1956. A cold attic, three hard-up lodgers, and a cat that didn’t die of natural causes!
In a shabby top-floor room in the small cathedral city of Linchminster, Janet Bowering and her two fellow lodgers are getting on with Christmas Eve as best they can. There are cards to open, a drop of sherry from somewhere, and paper chains that have been up rather too many years running. The gas fire has gone out and nobody wants to spend the shilling to relight it.
Down in the street the congregation is arriving for the carol service. All seems well...
... until somebody’s cat is found dead!
But nobody sends for the police over a cat. So the three of them decide that if it’s going to be looked into properly, they had better look into it themselves. Their methods are unorthodox and their nerve is remarkable. But by eleven o’clock that night there is a detective inspector in the attic after all!
TABITHA was first performed at the Duchess Theatre, London, in March 1956. It was co-written by Arnold Ridley, known to millions as Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army, and to the theatre as the author of The Ghost Train.
Tabitha has his particular gift: warm, funny and thoroughly English, but with something somewhat suspenseful moving about underneath it all!
7:30 pm. Tickets £5.
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It's Christmas Eve, 1956. A cold attic, three hard-up lodgers, and a cat that didn’t die of natural causes!
In a shabby top-floor room in the small cathedral city of Linchminster, Janet Bowering and her two fellow lodgers are getting on with Christmas Eve as best they can. There are cards to open, a drop of sherry from somewhere, and paper chains that have been up rather too many years running. The gas fire has gone out and nobody wants to spend the shilling to relight it.
Down in the street the congregation is arriving for the carol service. All seems well...
... until somebody’s cat is found dead!
But nobody sends for the police over a cat. So the three of them decide that if it’s going to be looked into properly, they had better look into it themselves. Their methods are unorthodox and their nerve is remarkable. But by eleven o’clock that night there is a detective inspector in the attic after all!
TABITHA was first performed at the Duchess Theatre, London, in March 1956. It was co-written by Arnold Ridley, known to millions as Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army, and to the theatre as the author of The Ghost Train.
Tabitha has his particular gift: warm, funny and thoroughly English, but with something somewhat suspenseful moving about underneath it all!
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Where is it happening?
The Old Meeting URC Bedworth, Old Meeting Yard, Leicester St ,Bedworth, United Kingdom
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Host or PublisherBedworth Theatre Company
