We are pleased to announce that our next musical production will be KIPPS, the New Half a Sixpence Musical, which will be staged at Watersmeet from 22nd to 25th November 2023.

Arthur Kipps, an orphan, is an over-worked draper’s assistant at Shalford’s Bazaar, Folkestone, at the turn of the last century. He is a charming but ordinary young man who dreams of a better and more fulfilling world, but when Kipps unexpectedly inherits a fortune that propels him into high society, it confuses everything he thought he knew about life.

Watching him wrestle with his new identity is his childhood companion and not-quite girlfriend, Ann Pornick, who sees with dismay how Arthur is being made over in a new image by the beautiful and classy Helen Walsingham. Both of these young women love Arthur – but which should he listen to? With the help of his friends, Arthur learns that if you want to have the chance of living the right life, you need to make the right choices.

This new stage version reinvents the musical “Half a Sixpence” for the modern age, returning the musical to its literary roots, in a timeless and contemporary way, with an infectious new score.