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Sweet Delilah!

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It’s all go again at The Petuaria Players.

Rehearsals are now well under way for our next production due this coming May. THE SWEET DELILAH SWIM CLUB is another comedy from the same authors that gave us The Hallelujah Girls.

In 2017 we performed The Hallelujah Girls, a comedy set in the southern states of the USA, written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope & Jamie Wooten , a successful American writing trio that have written for TV and movies.  This May we are pleased to bring you another of their popular plays.  Directed by Janet Drewery, this is a play that is truly an all female production. 

Once again this is a story based in the southern states of the US, this time in a coastal cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Five women, whose friendships began years ago on their college swim team, still meet every summer to catch up on their lives at the Sweet Delilah beach cottage in North Carolina.  We follow them through four weekend visits spread over three decades and learn about these unforgettable women in a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever….

Y’all gonna have fuuuun!

Booking is open so get hold of those best seats now – see contact details in our poster below or click here for our Tickets page

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Open Night

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What’s an Open Night? It’s an opportunity to come and meet the members at our rehearsal room near the Village Hall, have a cuppa and some nibbles and a chat and find out if you’d like to get involved in helping us.

Like many amateur drama groups across the country it is becoming difficult to maintain the effort required to bring shows to the local community – both through supporting activities and having sufficient actors to cast in plays (especially male roles and indeed younger characters). An 85 year old Sir Ian McKellen recently played a young Prince Hamlet in an age-blind production on stage. Whilst we’re not in that bracket our cast numbers and age profile does limit our choice of productions and this year we are embarking on a campaign of increasing our visibility and encouraging local people (experienced or newcomers) to consider acting (or just helping) in this well-liked and respected drama group.

So if you or someone you know would like to call in and ask questions and see more of what we do why not come along – simply get in touch with our secretary Dianne and confirm. See the details below.

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It’s Time to Act

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This week, the BBC Breakfast programme showed an excellent ten minute feature about the state of amdram in the UK. It showed perfectly the issues that surround amateur drama groups nationally and the struggles that such groups have in dwindling membership, specifically for actors and even more specifically for casting male roles in plays and going on to show the benefits of being involved in such groups.

It was timely as it coincided with the start of our own campaign to promote ourselves as we too need to encourage people to ‘have a go’.

Our leaflet (see below) will appear shortly around the area and it shows everything you need to know about getting in touch and finding out more.

We are planning to have an ‘open night’ in March where we invite people to come along and meet us – why not get in touch to find the date and register your name?

We will be posting more on this subject in the coming weeks and also about our latest production in May. Watch this space!

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Happy New Year

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Wishing you all a wonderful 2025 as we take the final curtain call on 2024.

It has certainly been an enjoyable one for us and the whole drama process acts as a nice distraction from all the distressing global events and concerns that occupy our minds these days! And we will continue with that ‘distraction’ into 2025 as The Petuaria Players starts its 64th season.

As for 2024 we went from an energetic farce in the first half of the year with Perfect Wedding, to an emotional comedy drama in Albert Nobbs in November and we now look forward to starting rehearsals in the new year for our May production of The Sweet Delilah Swim Club. We will, of course, bring you more on that soon via these pages.

Outside of the production work we do manage to meet up as a group for social events and this year was no exception. And in December our annual attempt to sing Xmas carols took place at the entrance in Morrisons in Brough thus ensuring that customers had no choice but to pass the band of happy yuletide vocalists. Despite this, Morrisons reported that sales were not down, customers did not divert and rush off to Sainsbury’s and we did raise money for Alzheimer’s UK.

Need New Year’s Resolutions? We can help!

How about making sure you book tickets for our May production? Want something more challenging? How about giving us some help to put on our shows – set building and decorating, or helping with refreshments at our play intervals? Or maybe you’ve always wanted to help backstage or even…. (gulp) perform on stage? Or you could simply resolve to help spread the word about us – by sharing our posts / emails to your friends and family, or sharing them on social media accounts – because everything helps us to keep providing memorable plays.

And here’s a selection of just some of them. (To see a more comprehensive list visit this page here.