The Riverside Musical Theatre Company are back on the Riverside stage this June with the fabulous 9 to 5 to Musical, the hilarious and empowering story where three unlikely friends take control of their office and learn there is nothing they can't do, even in a man's world !

9 To 5 The Musical, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and book by Patricia Resnick, is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie. Set in the late 1970s this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking, and even a little romantic.

Pushed to the boiling point, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy - giving their boss the boot! While Hart remains "otherwise engaged," the women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can't she?

A high-energy show with its jubilant score and easily relatable characters, 9 to 5 is the perfect production for this talented cast and a night at The Riverside you simply won’t want to miss !!

RMTC Creative team

Director and Choreographer - Sam De Vita

Musical Directors - Mike Wren and Jade Tournay-Godfrey

Executive Producer - Michael Warden

Assistants to the Director - Rachel Lansdowne and Lorraine Woodgate

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International

All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI www.mtishows.co.uk

Based on the 20th Century Fox Picture.

Music and Lyrics by

Dolly Parton

Book by

Patricia Resnick

Originally produced on Broadway by Robert Greenblatt, April 2009

RMTC have chosen two very personal charities for this production - HSP (Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia) and The Firefighters Charity.

It’s 2932. Ten-year-old Arco is frustrated. As the age limit for time travel is 12 he is unable to join his parents and older sister on their journeys. So, one night he takes his sibling’s time-travelling robe and finds himself in 2075, where he befriends young Iris. It doesn’t take long for his arrival to be registered, but Arco realises the journey home may not be as easy as he thought.

A riveting, joyful and rapturously colourful film, Arco was one of the nominees for this year’s Best Animation Academy Award.

An alien lands in Washington D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

Adapted from a short story by Harry Bates, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL delivered one of cinema’s most potent anti-nuclear warnings, and remains a powerful call for peace over the self-destructive futility of war.

Directed by multiple Oscar winner Robert Wise (WEST SIDE STORY, THE SOUND OF MUSIC) from a screenplay by Edmund H. North (PATTON), the film features an outstanding experimental score by Bernard Herman (PSYCHO, TAXI DRIVER), a serious-minded approach, compelling performances from an iconic cast, and the quasi-fascist robot enforcer, Gort!

Screening as part of our new season of films - PARANOIA AT THE RIVERSIDE

Defiant, brilliant, and untamable, Leonora Carrington refused to live by anyone’s rules but her own. In the charged atmosphere of 1930s Paris, she falls under the spell of the Surrealist movement—and into a passionate, volatile love affair with the German artist Max Ernst. Together, they create a world where art and life blur, surrounded by icons like André Breton and Salvador Dalí, and build an otherworldly refuge in the south of France filled with sculpted creatures and strange, living dreams.

Leonora in the Morning Light is the epic true story of a woman who turned trauma into transcendence, creating beauty from chaos and forging a legacy that changed the history of modern art.

Please note that this is a private screening for members of Woodbridge Film Society and not open to the public. If you wish to join the Film Society then please visit their page here

The impressive directorial feature debut of Laura Carreira is a powerful account of the gig economy and the loneliness of working-class immigrants caught up in it. Portuguese worker Aurora is employed by a Scottish fulfilment warehouse, endlessly pacing down aisles and pulling items from shelves to be shipped out to online shoppers. While her shifts are long and her productivity is constantly monitored, her wages are minimal and she can barely afford to eat. Her gruelling days are punctuated by a few precious moments of connection, especially when her busy lodgings welcomes a new Polish flatmate. Carreira’s skilfully directed and heartbreaking portrait of an isolated woman on the cusp of unravelling is gripping. With shades of Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman and the indelible spirit of Ken Loach, On Falling is a rage against the capitalist machine, and a very worthy winner of the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival.