Named after Tina Turner’s 1980’s hit single, ‘Simply The Best’,  is a year-by-year extravaganza of everything that was new, novel, fascinating and fun in a decade that also witnessed its fair share of conflict, peace and discovery - and a great deal more besides...

The show includes over 20 classic hand-clapping, foot-stomping hits from artistes including Buggles, Hall & Oates, Madonna, Queen, Spandau Ballet, Status Quo and Tears For Fears.

Also featured is a bounty of classic side-splitting film and television comedy with live on-stage excerpts from ‘ALLO ALLO’, 'HI-DE-HI’ and 'BLACKADDER II'.

There is a section dedicated to eighties musicals including ‘Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Starlight Express’, ‘Chess’, ‘Miss Saigon’ and ‘Les Misérables’ and also a generous helping of year-by-year news, views, nostalgia and reminiscences with live video footage of key events including the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer, the US Presidential Election with speeches by Ronald Reagan and the toppling of the Berlin Wall.

Memorable TV advertisements of the eighties including 'Cadbury's Flake', 'Yellow Pages', 'Fry's Turkish Delight', Cadbury's Milk Tray and 'The Age of the Train' are also featured.

As with its two predecessors, the idea for the show came from Stone Little Theatre founder member, Neil Norman and following months of extensive research by a dedicated team of members who assembled all the facts for the story, the final script was written by Stone Little Theatre Director, Chris C Bell.

“As with our 2002 and 2003 productions, we’ve piggy-backed on a tried and tested award-winning formula to put together what we feel will be a show that’s probably the best yet”, commented Chris. “We’ve had to overcome many hurdles along the way, the main problem being to gain permission to use the various television and film extracts. Having resolved all these, the group is now working hard on the actual staging of the show which promises to be a great evening’s entertainment.”