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COMING THIS NOVEMBER

September 4, 2025 Steve H Leave a comment

Our next production rehearsals are already underway – but what’s it to be? Read on…

Coming this November 13th, 14th, 15th 2025

THE CEMETERY CLUB by Ivan Menchell

Ring a bell for some of you? We first performed this delightful comedy fourteen years ago when it was enjoyed by all and we decided that we would like to bring a new production of it to our current audiences (and also give the opportunity to those who enjoyed it the first time around to see it once again with a new cast.)

First performed on Broadway in the 1990s it remains timeless as a comedy about life and moving on.

What’s it about? Don’t be put off by a title with the word cemetery in it. This is not a morbid or depressing play, far from it. The Cemetery Club features pathos, comedy and some great, fast-paced, witty one-liners that will entertain you with a great night out.

In the area of Queens, New York, three Jewish widows and lifelong friends meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husbands’ graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgemental. When Sam the butcher meets the widows whilst visiting his wife’s grave, relationships and routines begin to change…

And the good news is that you can book your seats now. Simply click here for details. For those of you who prefer to reserve your seats with a season ticket then your usual Newsletter is on its way – but if you can’t wait simply contact our ticket secretary Julie at any time.

What about the May play?

The May play will be a comedy by Richard Harris called

PARTY PIECE

Put it in your calendar – May 14th 15th 16th 2026

We’ll tell you more about it the next posts (or for a preview go to our What’s On page by clicking here )

Others

A Murder Mystery

July 21, 2025 Steve H Leave a comment

No, not us this time but we think you should know that our friends at the Cave Players are presenting a Murder Mystery Evening this September in our usual venue, Elloughton Brough Village Hall.

REMAINS OF MURDER is an entertaining murder mystery where you and your team need to work out whodunnit and possibly win the prize. Bring your own food and drink, enter the raffle and have a great time for just £10 per person.

NOTE: booking for this event is via the number shown below.

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Memories

July 4, 2025 Steve H Leave a comment

No, not the title of our next production. That’s something we are still working on during our summer recess. Watch this space for news on that particular subject – we normally expect to announce our new season sometime in August.

Meanwhile we hope you haven’t forgotten about us and are looking forward to seeing our mid-November production – whatever it will be. So we cannot tell you what the future holds but we can tell you about the past and remind you of the plays that have brought us to today.

2026 will be The Petuaria Players’ 65th anniversary and during that time we have presented almost 180 productions and lots of memories.

ALL OUR PRODUCTIONS – 1961 to 2025

How many of these do you remember? How many of them have you seen? Let us know in the comments..

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Sweet Delilah.. see the photos

May 19, 2025 Steve H Leave a comment

Our enjoyable and much-loved run of The Sweet Delilah Swim Club ended on the 10th May which completes our 2024/25 season – aaaaaahhh! (a collective sigh all round after all the necessary intensive work required to put on a performance.)

We now embark upon our ‘summer break’ during which we meet up to read through scripts and start the process of selecting and casting our plays for the next November and May productions.

Meanwhile we can now share some photos taken during dress rehearsal that give you a flavour (and perhaps a few memories) of the show.

Putting on American plays, not least those based in the southern states, can be a challenge but we have done it successfully many times before and we achieved it again. Okay – whilst North Carolinians may not have been fooled – our local audience certainly were transported to a beach cottage on the Outer Banks for a few weekends through the decades with a great performance from our all-female cast. The audience loved their story, the humour and, of course, there were a few tears.

This was our second comedy from the Jones, Hope, Wooten writing team who are among the most popular and widely-produced playwrights in the US. They specialize in writing laugh-out-loud comedies and creating vivid strong roles for women and between them, they’ve written classic television, hit movies, and Off-Broadway comedy. It won’t surprise you that Jamie Wooten was a writer and producer for many seasons of the classic television series The Golden Girls.

The Sweet Delilah Swim Club

by Jones Hope Wooten

May 2025