The next production by New Forest Players is "Waiting For God" by Michael Aitkens and Directed by Len Reid

Production Dates October 29th to November 1st 2025 at Ballard School PAC

The Cast and Backstage Crew are recruited and rehearsals start on August 27th 2025.

What's It About

All the favorite characters from the British sitcom aired on BBC1 from 1990 to 1994 are reimagined for this play. Facing the challenges that come with growing old gracefully, two spirited residents of Bayview Retirement Village, a stuffy senior's home where stepping out of line is strictly frowned upon. 

Retired photojournalist Diana Trent is often angry, more so now because she's stuck at Bayview. She has little use for anyone except the new resident Tom Ballard, who gleefully cheers Diana on as she goes about her undermining ways, to give the conniving manager Harvey Baines and his assistant Jane Edwards their comeuppance.

Add Diana's niece Sarah Chase a successful and charming business woman and Mary Ballard the daughter of Tom who is very dull and has a difficult marriage to a sex mad husband. Plus a dithering vicar, a female doctor, a mad organist and a undertaker and this all leads to a hilarious conspiracy with unexpected heartwarming results.