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Our 2025 shows are LIVE!
5th Dec 2024
As panto season is upon us (oh, yes it is) you might be wondering what you have to look forward to here at The Corn Hall in the New Year. Well, the answer is LOTS!… read more
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The Open Space of the Deep Blue Sea
29th Nov 2024
More than any other local theatre group, Open Space focuses on classic texts, favouring writers such as Anton Chekov, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. In doing so they set themselves the considerable challenge of doing… read more
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An Inspired Folly from Roughcast Theatre
22nd Nov 2024
George Bernard Shaw's tale of Eliza Dolittle's transformation has undergone so many iterations over the years that the themes and tone of the original play have been obscured, it not lost. Even the version of… read more
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Another full house for Corn Hall Comedy
17th Nov 2024
It was another full house for the reinvigorated Comedy night at the Corn Hall, with Steve Bugeja warming up the crowd nicely, exchanging the sort of good natured banter with the front row that we've… read more
Posted in Comedy
Oaklands Care Home and Kingsley Home Care sponsor Diss Dementia Cafe
15th Nov 2024
Kingsley Healthcare’s Oaklands Care Home has teamed up with sister company Kingsley Home Care to sponsor a thriving dementia café in Diss. Time with Friends attracts up to 40 people to its meetings in The… read more
Simmons Measures Up
3rd Nov 2024
A member of the same club as Tim Vine, Milton Jones and Darren Walsh, Mark Simmons rejoices in word play and classic one-liners. Proving, once again, that there is an avaricious appetite for comedy in… read more
Posted in Comedy
A Haunting performance from Thom Bailey Theatre
26th Oct 2024
With Halloween only a week away Thom Bailey Theatre arrives just in time to scare the pants off the Corn Hall’s audience with four strange tales, based on East Anglian history and folk law. Reminiscent… read more
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Folk were away with the Faeries
21st Oct 2024
As winter inexorably draws in, as do the nights, it’s all the more important that the likes of the Peatbog Faeries are around to entertain us with their extraordinary mix of pipes, fiddles (not one… read more
Posted in Music
A Clogstravaganza at the Corn Hall
6th Oct 2024
The welcome return to the Corn Hall of musician Kathryn Tickell was met with a full house, eager to enjoy her very particular offering of Northumbrian pipe and fiddle music. As before, she was accompanied… read more
Posted in Music
An Uncommonly good ghost story
4th Oct 2024
The uncommon thing about a Common Ground production is that you never quite know what you're going to get, not just in substance but in tone. It will most likely be written and directed by… read more
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