OUR LITTLE HOUR

Following its critically acclaimed, sell out success in 2024 OUR LITTLE HOUR comes to the Stahl Theatre Oundle as part of its 2026 revival tour.

Hailed as “an intensely moving new musical drama” it tells the inspirational story of how Walter Tull - grandson of a Barbadian slave and orphaned at just eight years old - rose to prominence as the first black footballer to play at the highest level of the domestic game in the UK before achieving another historic breakthrough as the first man of his heritage to be commissioned as an Officer in the British Army.

Written by award winning playwright Dougie Blaxland and including 16 “hauntingly beautiful original songs OUR LITTLE HOUR is a show “not to be missed”.

“A powerful and very moving account of Tull’s life” Stage Talk

“A beautifully crafted new musical” Northamptonshire Telegraph

At the end of the performance, the writer of the play will do a post show talk.

Awards include:

The recipient of The Peggy Ramsay Award for the last tour of Our Little Hour 2024

Previous plays have won the following awards:

Brighton Festival Best Play 2009 for Chauntecleer and Pertelotte

Raising New Voices 2010 for Never Any Fruit

Best Solo Play Edinburgh Festival 2011 for If it’s Any Consolation

Salford Best New Play 2019 for Getting The Third Degree

National Campaign for The Arts Best Play 2021 for Unknown Manchester Getting the Third Degree

He Was Nominated and Shortlisted for:

2021 Hope Mill Best New Play for Infinity Plus One

2024 Fringe First Award for On The Ropes

2025 Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize for His Majesty is Missing

Venue: Stahl Theatre, West Street, Oundle, PE8 4EJ

Date: 24th Feb 2026

Time: 7.45pm

Tickets: £13 & £18

Age Restrictions 11+

Running Time 2hrs 10 minutes including interval

Bar open at 7pm

How To Get Your Tickets

Online: www.stahltheatre.co.uk

Phone: 01832 277300

In person at the Box Office (open Mon-Fri. 9.30-2.30)

EVERYONE WELCOME

Farnham Maltings Presents

All For Your Delight

A theatre experience celebrating variety and the world of live entertainers.

Danny, Jojo, and Yaz are on tour, bringing their

marvellous variety show to audiences across the country.

In between gigs at the nations best holiday resorts they’ re donning their famous Brightcoats and welcoming audiences into

town halls, theatres and village greens up and down the country.  

A dazzling mix of comedy acts,songs and games,plus some

spectacular roller-skating! But behind the sequins and

spotlights, something deeper is unfolding. When an

unexpected character emerges, the Brightcoats must battle to keep their show on the road as hidden secrets start rising to the surface.

With the Brightcoats forced to confront what it means to live a life dedicated to performance, will our talented company have what it takes to ensure the show goes on?

From the award-winning Farnham Maltings,All For Your Delight

is a sparkling production,brimming with heart and humanity,

that explores what it really takes to put on a proper good night out.

★★★★This show is a lovely, joyful thing – The Stage on Our June’s Wedding, Farnham Maltings and Theatre Exchange.

Conceived and directed by Katy Potter, with an original script by Alex Kanefsky (Cable Street; Southwark Playhouse) and songs composed by Darren Clark (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Southwark Playhouse and West End). Produced by Farnham Maltings

Venue: The Stahl Theatre, West St, Oundle, PE8 4EJ

Date: March 18th 2026

Time: 7.45pm

Tickets: £18 or £13

Running Time:110 minutes approximately

How To Get Your Tickets

Online: www.stahltheatre.co.uk

Phone: 01832 277300

In person at the Box Office (open Mon-Fri. 9.30-2.30)

Everyone Welcome

Bar open from 7pm

Box Office open hours are Mon-Fri. 9.30am -2.30pm term time only

Later Life Letter

Luke Wright

Later Life Letter tells the story of Luke Wright’s adoption – the life he leads, and the one he might have done. What’s it like to stumble across your birth mother on Facebook? How do you honour the parents who have raised you while satisfying a curiosity about where you came from? Is it telling that you married a social worker?

Wright navigates his audience through a warm and honest hour of poems and stand-up with the wit, pathos, and silliness that has made him one of the most popular live poets in England.

This is a frank account of what it means to be someone’s child told by a performer who really knows what he’s doing. Expect raucous laughter, tear-stained cheeks, and a little smattering of drum n bass.

“A streetwise panache and a sardonic comic verve to rival Stewart Lee.”

★★★★★ Telegraph

“Honesty, humour, ire and wonder. He is at the peak of his powers.”

★★★★★ The Stage

“His poems shoot arrows through the heart, or leave you dazzled by their virtuosity” ★★★★★ List

EVERYONE WELCOME

Venue: The Stahl Theatre, West St, Oundle, PE8 4EJ

Date: April 17th 2026

Time: 7.45pm

Tickets: £18 or £13

Age recommendation is

Running Time: 90 minutes approximately

Bar open from 7pm

How To Get Your Tickets

Online: www.stahltheatre.co.uk

Phone: 01832 277300

In person at the Box Office (open Mon-Fri. 9.30-2.30)

Box Office open hours are Mon-Fri. 9.30am -2.30pm term time only