Phoenix Youth Theatre Company, White Cobra Productions

A double-bill of superb theatre as part of the Barn Fringe week.

The Phoenix Youth Theatre Company - our very own local award-winning theatre company - presents excerpts from Jekyll & Hyde.

Then the amazing White Cobra Productions present their new show, Hancock's Last Half Hour.

The title tells all. Barricaded in his Sydney hotel bedroom with plentiful stocks of vodka, the lad from East Cheam casts a bleary eye over his wrecked career and marriages before swallowing the last handful of pills. Hancock's battered mind jumps dazzlingly about, through the wilderness of comic theory including Freud ("How would he go down second house at the Glasgow Empire?"), confiding to a stags head on the wall, and sending up disconsolate prayers to Bertrand Russell, even though, as he finally observes, "There's not a clown in the sky."