The Tales Our Mother Told

Date: Tuesday 7th October 2025

Time: 7.30pm

Tickets: £16.00* (Full) £10.00* (21 & under)

 

 

At their mother's memorial service, two estranged brothers start to piece together a sense of who she was from the stories she told them as children, and as adults.

 

Some were hilarious, some terrifying and some downright confusing. Did they help the brothers in their life path, or did they make the forest darker and the way less clear? Was their mother to be found in her yarns, like the old woman spinning in her gingerbread cottage, or were they a smokescreen, an enchanted mist that took you to strange parts and left you thrilled but faintly bewildered.

 

Untangling the web that she spun might bring them redemption and reconciliation, or it may shatter their uneasy peace for ever.

 

Common Ground are committed to keeping small-scale theatre alive and well in East Anglia, presenting shows that are, first and foremost, entertaining. Featuring live music, performed by our company of skilled actor-musicians, our productions are theatrically inventive, character-based and always emotionally engaging.

 

As a charity we rely on donations to help cover the cost of delivering our programme of exhibitions, events, our community activities such as our Dementia Café, Arts Award, Saturday Club, Tots Tuesdays, Start With Art, as well as supporting our core costs. We ask you to support The Corn Hall with a donation, so that we can continue to be a creative community hub for Diss. Whatever the donation, anything from £1 to £10,000, is support that The Corn Hall didn't have until you very kindly gave it to us. We offer you a very warm thank you.

 

We want to make your visit to The Corn Hall as enjoyable and comfortable as possible, so we have provided you with detailed information regarding accessibility in all areas of the theatre. If you have any questions, or to register on our Access Scheme to enable accessible seating, discounts and companion tickets, please do not hesitate to contact the Box Office, between 10am and 4pm Monday to Saturday on 01379 652241 or email boxoffice@thecornhall.co.uk We will soon be working with Nimbus Disability, a Social Enterprise that has received international recognition for its Access Card Scheme. For more info on how to book access tickets online, take a look here: https://app.accesscard.online/apply/access-card/form/. We have a limit on how many wheelchair spaces we can safely accommodate therefore these need to be reserved in advance.