Open Night at the Forum

With just a few days to go to Neighbourhood Watch (book your tickets here) we also need to tell you about our annual Open Night event on Monday May 9th at 7.30pm in the Forum.

This is that exciting once a year unmissable opportunity (ok I’m in promotional mode here) to come and meet the stars of our stage and the equally wonderful stars of our backstage operations.

In a friendly informal atmosphere join us to have a chat; find out what we do; how we get a play from first reading to performance; have look at our history and photos from the past; give us your opinions; offer suggestions….

It’s also an opportunity to consider joining us in any capacity – want to have a go at acting?  (no previous experience necessary…) -offer help in our numerous supportive roles off stage both during performances and during the rehearsal process? – help build our sets for the plays? Help with teas on performance nights? Perhaps support us by becoming a patron?

So come along and see us… oh, and free refreshments available too….

The Forum is our rehearsal building which is located to the right of the Village Hall on Elloughton Road, near the scout huts

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Not long to Neighbourhood Watch

Yes, the realisation is dawning on the actors that our next play is less than two weeks away from going live on stage.

Find out more about Neighbourhood Watch here.

Have you booked your tickets yet?  Click here for details.

It’s a challenging and time-consuming period for everyone as the number of rehearsals increase and we tease out the detail and the lines.  But more than that, we introduce the music, the sound effects and the props, plan the scene changes, devise and publish the programme in readiness for opening night.

Next week sees the final rehearsals in ‘The Forum’ (the rather grand name for our drama hut and rehearsal room adjacent to the Village Hall) before we have a busy weekend of set building and building the seating in readiness for the performances.  Only then can we translate the work we have done onto a stage environment – the Technical Rehearsal – which will work out our lighting, sounds and stage entrances and exits, scene changes and back stage functions.

Come and see the results of our efforts 28 / 29 / 30 April.

It’s no April Fool

It may be April 1st but this is no joke… there are just 28 days to first night for Neighbourhood Watch. Seats are selling well so book your tickets now.

Poster for Neighbourhood Watch
Poster for Neighbourhood Watch