God on High

Tulip, a young, free spirited vicar, whose debt-ridden church is on the brink of closure, needs a miracle.

Living in a parish with a rising drug problem, trying to revive her failing love life, dealing with her bankrupt church, her oversexed nan, plus horny parishioners, she now has to acknowledge her grief after the recent, unexpected, death of her mother. With wavering faith, and bombarded with what appear to be signs from God, Tulip needs help. When an unexpected inheritance from her mother is announced, she finds herself asking is God testing her faith or has He found the perfect way to solve all her problems?

God on High is a loosely autobiographical play by Rhoda Dell. Four years ago Rhoda heard a spiritual voice announcing that her mother, who was in good health, was going to die and how. And then she did… on Good Friday!

Since then life has continued to demonstrate to Rhoda that she may not be the sole author of her story. Following this realisation, she has found life a lot more interesting- when you let go of how you think life should look, to endless possibilities appear.

Rhoda holds a Masters in Theology from The University of St Andrews, and trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in Acting and Singing.

Directed by Karen Rabinowitz:

An international director, choreographer and movement director, and from 1995-2014 she was Course Leader for the Musical Theatre Course at the Royal Academy of Music. Karen is particularly interested in working on new musicals and plays.

Original Music by Sam Hall:

A Kent based composer, lyricist, musical director, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist. Sam is currently the Musical Director for The Bodyguard UK Tour 2023/24. Sam studied contemporary classical composition at the Royal College of Music with his music and arrangements being played by first class orchestras including the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Recently, Sam’s musical On The Edge was included in the MMD Claude-Michel Schönberg Masterclass.

Poster design by Nigel Hook:

Who has designed a wide range of drama, musical and opera productions throughout the U.K. & Europe.

He is the winner of the 2017 Tony Award for best Set Design and The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for   The Play That Goes Wrong.

After All These Years

A comedy about the passing of time, and memory, and love, and last chances

Nominated for the Outstanding Theatre Award in the 2021 Brighton Fringe, Close Quarter Productions and Theatre Reviva! return with a brand new production of After All These Years in 2023.

Relationships can be a delicate balance of hope, desire, memory, regret and much more besides, especially when two former showbiz couples think they know all there is to know about each other.

“The finest premiere I’ve seen in this Fringe.  This Chekhovian elegy for the dance of age is in a defining league of its own.  A superb play, it should be, as one director present said, in the West End.”

Fringe Review (2021) 

Other plays by Giles Cole include: The Art of Concealment – The Life of Terence Rattigan, which premiered in the Brighton Fringe of 2011, and then transferred in a new production to London’s Jermyn Street Theatre and subsequently Riverside Studios in 2012, gathering four- and five-star reviews from The Times, The Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent and The Daily Mail.

This was followed in 2015 by The Heart of Things, a family drama which also premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre and a double bill of two short plays, When Love Grows Old, was part of the Brighton Fringe in 2017.  Giles is currently working on Alliance, a commission from Holofcener Ltd, which is planned for larger-scale production in 2023/4 and based on the three weeks Churchill spent in the White House over Christmas 1941.  He has also written seven plays for BBC Radio 4.

In tandem with Theatre Reviva!, Close Quarter Productions produced the first Brighton Fringe run of After All These Years in 2021, which later transferred to the Ventnor Festival.  This was then followed by a short tour of R.C. Sheriff’s classic, Journey’s End.  Other productions with which CQP has been involved include the revival of A.A. Milne’s The Dover Road at Jermyn Street Theatre in 2016; more recently, the UK tour of The Lavender Hill Mob starring Miles Jupp and, in New York, American Buffalo, Two Jews Talking, The Old Man and the Pool and The Ohio State Murders.

2145 by Emma Kelly

2145 is a dark, comic road trip to the future where no one knows who’s in control. It’s Thelma and Louise meets Red Dwarf for the stage.

After All These Years

A comedy about the passing of time, and memory, and love, and last chances

Nominated for the Outstanding Theatre Award in the 2021 Brighton Fringe, Close Quarter Productions and Theatre Reviva! return with a brand new production of After All These Years in 2023.

Relationships can be a delicate balance of hope, desire, memory, regret and much more besides, especially when two former showbiz couples think they know all there is to know about each other.

“The finest premiere I’ve seen in this Fringe.  This Chekhovian elegy for the dance of age is in a defining league of its own.  A superb play, it should be, as one director present said, in the West End.”

Fringe Review (2021) 

Other plays by Giles Cole include: The Art of Concealment – The Life of Terence Rattigan, which premiered in the Brighton Fringe of 2011, and then transferred in a new production to London’s Jermyn Street Theatre and subsequently Riverside Studios in 2012, gathering four- and five-star reviews from The Times, The Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent and The Daily Mail.

This was followed in 2015 by The Heart of Things, a family drama which also premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre and a double bill of two short plays, When Love Grows Old, was part of the Brighton Fringe in 2017.  Giles is currently working on Alliance, a commission from Holofcener Ltd, which is planned for larger-scale production in 2023/4 and based on the three weeks Churchill spent in the White House over Christmas 1941.  He has also written seven plays for BBC Radio 4.

In tandem with Theatre Reviva!, Close Quarter Productions produced the first Brighton Fringe run of After All These Years in 2021, which later transferred to the Ventnor Festival.  This was then followed by a short tour of R.C. Sheriff’s classic, Journey’s End.  Other productions with which CQP has been involved include the revival of A.A. Milne’s The Dover Road at Jermyn Street Theatre in 2016; more recently, the UK tour of The Lavender Hill Mob starring Miles Jupp and, in New York, American Buffalo, Two Jews Talking, The Old Man and the Pool and The Ohio State Murders.

2145 by Emma Kelly

2145 is a dark, comic road trip to the future where no one knows who’s in control. It’s Thelma and Louise meets Red Dwarf for the stage.