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'On A Role' is an arts company specialising in touring professional small-scale shows. It also runs
the 'Historic Ghost Walk of Worcester' and provides a series of bespoke arts services
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It currently has six top-quality, acclaimed, tried and tested, small-scale touring shows with one more planned for 2022 looking at the life of Enid Blyton.

For the current shows, scroll down for details and click through for more information and tour dates.

'On A Role' also runs the 'Historic Ghost Walk of Worcester', which runs most Wednesdays from October to April. We can also provide private walks which are available at any time. Full details are on the Ghost Walk page or use the button below.

'Speaking Volumes' offers a series of services available from Chris Jaeger MBE – arts consultation, after-dinner speaking, adjudication, freelance directing and bespoke writing.
For more information about our arts service click here

Theatre Shows


Bah Humbug

Joanne is very rich but all alone on Christmas Eve. She hates Christmas with a passion and explains at length what is wrong with it. She eventually nods off and awakes to find a woman in her flat. She has no idea how she got in, who she is, or what she wants. On the other hand, the woman seems to know a great deal about Joanne and her family and her somewhat murky past. This bitter/sweet comedy brings a modern twist to the Scrooge experience, and is guaranteed to make the audience both laugh and cry.” Recommended 14+ - strong language

Performed by Liz Grand and Katherine Parker-Jones
Written by Kit Hunter
Directed by Chris Jaeger

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'Where Is Mrs Christie?'

Agatha Christie was one of the greatest thriller writers of all time. In 1926 she was at the centre of a mystery as perplexing as any of her fiction which sparked one of the most extensive police hunts in history when she was missing, presumed dead, for eleven days. When she was eventually found in the Swan Hydro Hotel in Harrogate she claimed she was suffering from amnesia and remembered nothing.

Neither the press nor the police believed her.....

Performed by Liz Grand
Written and directed by Chris Jaeger

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Mrs. Churchill - My Life With Winston



The idea that behind every great man, there is a great woman, was never more true in the case of Clementine Churchill. Winston said, "my most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

Performed by Liz Grand
Written by Kit Hunter
Directed by Chris Jaeger


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The Secret Life of Enid Blyton



Enid Blyton was loved by children. She sold more than 600 million books, despite all her work being banned by the BBC and many libraries and schools for more than thirty years.  She was accused of being a racist and of using such limited vocabulary that it actually hindered children's reading progress. She had an interesting love life. She enjoyed playing golf so much that she bought a golf course near Swanage.  She died of Alzheimer's in 1968 aged 71, mourned by millions of readers all over the world. 

Liz Grand plays this remarkable and controversial woman and brings you Enid Blyton's incredible story.

Performed by Liz Grand
Written by Kit Hunter
Directed by Chris Jaeger


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'The Second Best Bed'

When Shakespeare died he famously left his wife Anne only one thing in his will, the second best bed.

The play is set on the night of Shakespeare's funeral. The wake has finished and the mourners have all gone home, leaving Anne to remember her life with the most talented playwright the world has ever seen....Or was he? Did he write the plays? Surely Anne would know!

Performed by Liz Grand
Written by Avril Rowlands
Directed by Chris Jaeger

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 'Jesus My Boy'
Meet Joseph, just about the worst carpenter in Nazareth. He first got to know his wife, Mary, when she returned to complain about a table she had bought from him. It didn't stop him asking her out and they eventually got married. A pretty unremarkable marriage until Mary announced that she is pregnant and that Joseph is not the father.
The boy grows up to have a remarkable talent with wood but he has more important things to do than make furniture and he must set out on the road to his destiny.

Performed by Jonathan Darby
Written by John Dowie
Directed by Chris Jaeger


'Vesta'

Worcester's Wonder of the Music Halls

A one-woman show about the life and music of Vesta Tilley, arguably the greatest music hall star this country has ever produced. She was a huge star on both sides of the Atlantic and for over thirty years, she was probably the highest-paid woman in England. The show includes 11 songs and 7 costume changes.

Performed by Claire Worboys
Written and directed by Chris Jaeger


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