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66th SEASON
Find out details about our current 66th season, 2024-2025.
NOW BOOKING
ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST
by Dario Fo and Franca Rame
adapted by Tom Basden
20—29 March 2025
Medway Little Theatre is proud to present this hilarious farce, written by Nobel prize-winning playwright Dario Fo and first produced in 1970 but revised, rewritten and adapted by Tom Basden into a bitingly relevant and hugely funny piece of contemporary theatre.
In its current form, the play was premiered at The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 2022 and enjoyed a triumphant sell-out run in the West End at The Haymarket Theatre later that year, in both locations starring Daniel Rigby as The Maniac.
The play is set in a Metropolitan police station, in the aftermath of a recent death in police custody, where two previous ill-conducted inquiries have been unable to establish reasons for that death. Clever, quick-witted and mischievous, and assuming a variety of guises, The Maniac makes brilliant fun of the police officers involved and the deeply flawed processes of inquiry.
Tickets for all our shows are available at Ticketsource.
Tickets
You can book tickets to attend any upcoming productions in our current season as they become available.
Bookings can be made in person at the box office with contactless payment during the run of a show from 7pm to 7.30pm.
Credit or debit cards may be used at the box office or online.
Ticket prices:
Special prices apply for youth productions. Tickets bought in person at the box office incur a £1 booking fee.
Please direct any other enquiries to our Box Office on 01634 400322. If the box office is unable to answer please leave a message with a contact number and we will call you back.
Accessibility
Our theatre is an historic building with steps to the entrance and a curving staircase to the toilet facilities on the upper floor. Our volunteers are on hand to help where possible, and we are looking at ways of making the building more accessible, but at present we feel we must make our patrons aware of this when arranging a visit.
Performances which feature a sign language interpreter will be clearly marked on the Ticketsource booking page. The theatre has an induction loop system for people using hearing aids; digital compatibility is being investigated.
Previous Productions
Poster and Image Archive
Click here to check out posters from our previous productions. There are plenty more, including rehearsal photos, to be found on our Facebook page.
If you would like some more information on past productions you can see a selection of programmes from the last few years here.
About Us
Medway Little Theatre is situated in historic Rochester. It was converted from a disused warehouse into a 100-seat theatre in 1958. In 1995 we acquired the freehold to our premises with the aid of a generous grant from the old Rochester City Council. We are now a fully-equipped public theatre, with well over 400 productions behind us.
There is always a welcoming atmosphere in our friendly auditorium with its integral bar. Anyone interested in joining the company in any capacity is invited to come along to meet us at our social nights, held every Tuesday from 8pm onwards, except during productions.
We have two active Youth Sections:
Find out more and get in touch with any questions via the Youth Sections page.
We organise a one-act play festival annually for visiting youth and adult groups throughout North Kent and beyond.
Over the years, we have presented a complete range of theatre, from Sophocles to The Graduate, as a scroll through our list of productions since 1959 will show, and we continue to use our small stage in ambitious and innovative ways.
If you have enjoyed one of our productions and would like to leave a review, please click here.
Contact Us
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If you are interested in joining Medway Little Theatre or are just curious about what we do, please feel welcome to pop along to one of our social nights, which start around 8pm at the theatre on Tuesdays when shows are not on, and pose any questions you may have to our friendly and helpful members, or contact our membership secretary via membership@mlt.org.uk.