One Act Play Festival

New to You Theatre presents

‘Ancient and Modern’ & ‘Last Bus To Whitby’

Written and Directed by Martin Paul Roche

Following their visit in summer 2025, New To You Theatre return with two very different plays! Two stories, two characters, two lives, two journeys.

Big Al is waiting to go on a journey he has waited a lifetime for on the last bus to Whitby. Stella is waiting to go on a journey to midnight mass, and it feels like a lifetime since she rang ‘Speedy Cabs’ taxis to take her!

These one-act monologue plays explore those times we finally get around to listening to an important person in our lives. Someone whom we often neglect. Ourselves.

Both stories explore in an innocent, gentle and bygone way, what we want from life and what happens when we muster the courage to go find it. Moreover, the real humour in life only comes from having lived it. 

For clarity of mind can be found during the most surprising of life’s journeys. 

Be that on a bus to Whitby or a taxi ride to midnight mass.

Featuring Rachel Harrison and Mark Rosenthal

What the audiences have said

“Laugh out loud funny and very thought-provoking. Two excellent performances. Go and see it if you can. New plays on tour. Brilliant.”

“Absolutely brilliant. Both performances did justice to the writing! Great plays, very poignant in parts but ‘laugh out loud’ comedic in others.”

Please note, this is not a PADOS production