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Our season ends…

Neighbourhood Watch was a pleasing success.  We knew this was a challenging play – wordy and longer than usual – but the audiences were in agreement with us that Ayckbourn’s words are well worth listening to.  Thought provoking and easy to extrapolate to current affairs it was never the less balanced with many touches of his well-placed humour – think ‘Hedgetrimmer’ for one.  Photos of the performance will be posted shortly, so ensure you have entered your email address under ‘Follow Us’ to be the first to see them.

Now we move on to our summer ‘rest’ phase which, of course is no rest at all.  We are already thinking about plays for 2016/17 and we will be reading through scripts over the next few weeks. Have you any ideas, favourites, new plays, old plays that you would like to see us perform? 

But firstly we have our Open Night on 9 May where we hope to interact with audience friends and newcomers and show who we are and what we do and answer your questions.  Obviously we also hope to attract new members as helpers and/or actors – more on that interesting issue in a future post….

 

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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Neighbourhood Watch poster goes live

Poster for Neighbourhood Watch
Poster for Neighbourhood Watch

To book tickets by email – click here: Our Book Tickets Page


For our final play of the season we return to the master, Ayckbourn and a successful comedy penned as recently as 2011.  Brother and sister Martin and Hilda Massie live together, leading a quiet, Christian existence in the confines of the Bluebell Hill Development. As they prepare for a housewarming gathering, their peace is shattered by a young trespasser in their garden. The Massies’ neighbours congregate in their living room and together they agree to form a neighbourhood watch group to safeguard against further incidents….  but then an incident involving Monty the gnome escalates their plans…

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a break in rehearsals for Neighbourhood Watch

Produced by Janet Drewery.  Front row L to R: Dianne Turner as Hilda, Steve Howland as Martin, Gill Collins as Amy.  Back row L to R: Rob Newton as Gareth, Barbara Failey as Dorothy, Nic Johnson as Magda, Wyn Price as Rod and Adam Craven as Luther

Oh and of course Monty as himself.