Well, last Wednesday, we had our AGM, followed by auditions for our forthcoming production of In For the Kill by Derek Benfield. To save you scrolling down, here is the synopsis of the play:
Paula is preparing to go out to dinner with Mark when Frank turns up out of the blue and gets Paula to admit her infidelity. She thinks he may be going to blackmail her, but he offers to kill her husband instead. However, things do not turn out as expected.
After a very good audition evening, the cast was selected as follows:
Paula Keren Read
James David Alexander
Mark Matt Dallas
Frank Richard Burridge
Susan Karlie Rea
There will be another update shortly, giving more details, but in the meantime put a note in your diaries that the Box Office for this one will be open on October 1.
Performances are at the Meopham Village Hall from Thursday 28 October to Saturday 30 October.
12th June, 2010
Here, as promised, is the review of Outside Edge, written by our publicity manager,
Keren:-
Review of “Opening Night” of Outside Edge
Directed by Eileen Bush
On Wednesday 26 May, the “Hall of Dreams” was transformed into a convincing Village Cricket Pavilion and Green. The cast brought Richard Harris’s colourful, quirky characters to life as the match progressed, in this fast moving comedy directed with great flair and vision by Eileen Bush (The play, I suspect, struck a chord with anyone who has ever organized a voluntary event J)
The cast led by John Winson as the harassed “self appointed” Captain of the Cricket
Club, Roger, was played extremely well. John’s dismissive body language, “hang-
Anne captured the character of Miriam perfectly, giving a gently observed and perfectly understated performance. She ensured that the production kept up the momentum throughout, building tension in Act two with her final confrontation with Roger. Her delivery was magnificent. Remarkably, this was her debut performance.
Alan Lawrence gave a believable portrayal of his character, Bob, displaying moments of bitterness and weakness, unable to say “no” to both his ex and current wife. He became gradually more inebriated during the play and did this with conviction.
Kevin and Maggie played by Tony Fish and Jill Oliver, were magnificent. Tony Fish
portrayed Kevin with the required strength and vulnerability. “Blister-
Jill Oliver brought the house down with her “colourful” portrayal of the character Maggie, making the most of comedy dialogue such as “Toast and marmalade and sex. They’re the only things I’m any good at”. A superb stage coupling, Jill played the overstated, smothering Maggie with passion and conviction and together, she and Tony contributed most “comedy moments” throughout the play.
Anne Horrocks played Bob’s acid tongued wife, Ginnie. Her portrayal was interspersed with moments of sarcasm, insecurity and vulnerability. Anne appeared on stage “at ease” in a bikini, brave lady!
Smarmy salesman, Dennis was played by Alan Williams. His creepy dealings with the
women of the club were a good characterisation and the audience’s delight when his
wife set fire to his precious new BMW showed his grasp of this irritating, insecure
know-
Matt Dallas gave a brilliant performance of the ruthless, insufferable lawyer Alex. He played this obnoxious character, perfectly, his timing, faultless.
Alex’s introvert girlfriend Sharon, played by a new member, Lauren Kelly was brought along to the "cricket match from hell" with hilarious consequences. Her desperate character tried to suppress the urgent need to answer the call of nature, squirming and grimacing throughout Act 2. Lauren had very few lines, although communicated her gawky character brilliantly. The face said it all.
The set was impressive and sound lighting, conducive to mood. Shame as I’ve always wanted to use the line “Great set, however the actors, masked it”.
To conclude, my friend, Kay, and I had a very enjoyable evening with many “laugh out loud” moments.
The interval Gin and Tonic was also pleasing.
Keren Read
1st June, 2010
In due course, we will print a review of Outside Edge but, at the moment, we are
still recovering from the effort of putting it on. To some, it might seem hardly
worth it -
You could say that the reason we do it is to satisfy a creative element we each of us possess whether we are on stage or behind it and certainly there is truth in that. However, I think there is a simpler explanation. I think that in spite of all the hard work, we do it because it is a Hell of a lot of fun.
But now, we turn our attention to the next production, In For The Kill, by Derek Benfield, to be performed on October 28th, 29th and 30th at our usual venue of the Meopham Village Hall. It will be directed by Sylvia Stickings who will be holding auditions immediately following the AGM on Wednesday 7th July.
This play, as the title perhaps suggests, is a thriller. The cast for which is as follows:
Paula Attractive woman in her thirties (age negotiable).
James Paula’s husband in his forties.
Mark Paula’s boyfriend.
Frank James’ business associate and friend.
Susan James’ daughter by previous marriage.
Synopsis: Paula is preparing to go out to dinner with Mark when Frank turns up out of the blue and gets Paula to admit her infidelity. She thinks he may be going to blackmail her, but he offers to kill her husband instead. However, things do not turn out as expected.
14th April, 2010
Our next production, Outside Edge by Richard Harris, is now well into rehearsals.
It will be produced by Eileen Bush who, following the auditions held in March, selected
the following cast:-
Miriam Anne Bruce
Roger John Winson
Bob Alan Lawrence
Dennis Alan Williams
Maggie Jill Oliver
Kevin Tony Fish
Ginnie Anne Horrocks
Alex Matt Dallas
Sharon Lauren Kelly
The play will run from Thursday 27th May to Saturday 29th May at the Meopham Village
Hall in Wrotham Road. The curtain goes up at 8pm and tickets, which will be on sale
from 1st May, can be obtained from the Box Office, telephone number:-
01474 814582
Ticket prices are £6.00 for adults and children,
£5.50 for members and senior citizens.
Theatre Experience tickets will also be available for £17.00. This price includes
for the performance and a two-
15th March, 2010
Sorry for the delay in updating this time. I have had nearly 2 months of intermittent problems getting connected to the Internet. In fact, even as I write, I cannot be sure this will go out by the date shown above.
A wonderful tool the Internet, when it works, but immensely frustrating when it doesn’t.
So, my apologies to anyone who has contacted us by Email and not yet had a reply
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The following report, written by Keren, our publicity manager, will appear in the forthcoming Meopham Review:
MEOPHAM PLAYERS NEWS -
Full houses enjoyed our February production "Breaking the Habit", written by our wonderful Terry Fairhead and expertly directed by Brenda Ogden. The domestic comedy was thought provoking and Act Two revealed an unexpected twist in the tale, with audiences on the edge of their seats. Congratulations go to the cast, crew and production team and in particular, to the author of this amazing piece. We are extremely fortunate to have such a literary genius in the society.
Terry Fairhead has published "A Pattern of Shadows", Trafford Publishing (ISBN 142514247-
MAY PRODUCTION : OUTSIDE EDGE
Auditions were held at our March monthly meeting for "Outside Edge" written by Richard
Harris. The director Eileen Bush successfully cast this fast moving comedy which
will run 27-
Set in a cricket Pavilion, Outside Edge deals with an eventful Saturday afternoon in the lives of five men and four women. Roger struggles to keep together his team to play against the British Railways Maintenance Division Yeading East, while the wives and girlfriends of his players help and hinder to devastating and hilarious effects.
Dates for diary: Wednesday 5 May, 2010, Open Rehearsal for "Outside Edge". Wednesday 7 July, 2010, ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
We warmly welcome new members. If you are "intrigued" to see what happens during rehearsals and behind the scenes, do join us at our monthly meeting (the first Wednesday of every month) or visit our website, www.meophamplayers.co.uk
25th January, 2010
So far, the New Year has been a bit bleak. Last year’s snow managed to stray into this year’s, making rehearsals for our next production a somewhat shivery business. Indeed, so bad were conditions we actually had to cancel one. We are however, back on course and looking forward to the open rehearsal at our next Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 3rd February. This will be the first opportunity the cast will have had to perform in front of an audience of their peers.
The play in question, Breaking the Habit is home grown and has, therefore, never
before been performed. This means that the cast is not able to use an established,
professional actor’s interpretation to guide their own. Quite a scary prospect for
an amateur in some ways, but also very exciting -
Anyway, if you would care to see this, the Box Office opens on Monday 1st February. Details of time, place, etc. follow:
15th December, 2009
We had the Christmas party on Friday
5th December -
Fortunately, some of the later acts more than made up for it and we are indebted to a number of our members who actually rehearsed their pieces beforehand.
So now it is on to our next production, which will be Breaking the Habit by Terry Fairhead. This will be performed at the Meopham Village Hall on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 25th, 26th and 27th February 2010. Box Office opens on Monday 1st February.
The story centres on a single mum (Penny) with two grown-
Now, I am sure there was something else I was supposed to put in. What could it have been?
Oh! I remember:
MERRY CHRISTMAS
And
A VERY HAPPY 2010
to everyone who has been kind enough to visit this site during 2009.
3rd November, 2009
The final curtain went down on The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole last Saturday evening and by 1.00pm on Sunday the set was broken and the hall completely cleared for general use by the village.
I think “triumph” would not be too strong a word to use with regard to the overall performance and the vision of the set designer who had to create four separate locations within the comparatively tiny area of a village Hall stage.
The leading actor, who played the part of Adrian Mole (aged 133/4) was Sam Ogden. By sheer coincidence Sam himself was actually the same age on that Saturday. For such a young man his performance in taking on the role was just extraordinary. He was almost continuously on stage throughout and never faltered once. If there is a better Adrian Mole around anywhere, he must be very, very good indeed.
But it wasn’t just Sam -
There is not sufficient space to extol the virtues of everyone involved, but there
is one other person we have to mention and that is the Director/Producer, John Winson.
He is quite literally a phenomenon. The amount of energy he has at his disposal would
probably keep Meopham powered for at least a week if necessary. As well as directing,
he designed the set and obtained any extra items needed for building it. He is nearly
always the first person on site for set-
Oh! And by the way, his other great passion (other than drama that is) is rugby training which he carries out during his spare time.
Thanks John for an absolutely great show.
In due course, I’ll put some pictures in the Past Productions Page, but I really
need to update the site today -
23rd September, 2009
It is time to look again at our current production which is now deep into the rehearsal
stage, as well it might be with the opening night being just over a month away. The
play in question is The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend. The cast will
be:-
Adrian Mole Sam Ogden
Pauline Mole Sue Smith
George Mole Matt Dallas
Mr. Lucas Richard Burridge
Mrs. Lucas Terri Horton
Grandma Sylvia Stickings
Nigel Alex Bryant
Barry Kent Alex Bryant
Pandora Megan Turner/Avneet Nota
Mrs. Scruton Brenda Ogden
Doreen Slater Lauren-
Bert Baxter Henry Roberts
Queenie Sonia Williams
Matron Tammy Barret Hayes
Electricity Board Man Andy Bryant
There will be four performances, three in the evenings of Thursday, Friday and Saturday
29th, 30th and 31st October at 8pm and a Saturday matinee at 3pm. As usual, the venue
will be the Meopham Village Hall. All performances will have the option of including
the Theatre Experience which, for those of you who don’t know allow an inclusive
charge for a theatre ticket and a meal at one of two local hostelries. For more details,
enquire at the Box Office which opens on Thursday 1st October. Telephone Lindsey
on:-
01474 814582
5th September, 2009
The memorial service for Arthur was held yesterday in front of a packed congregation. It was, of course, a sad occasion but it was uplifting too as we listened to anecdotes and memories of a man who had done so much for other people during his lifetime. He had been a member of Meopham Players since 1964.
This is how we will always remember him.
30th August, 2009
Earlier this month, Players were shocked to hear of the sudden and tragic death of one of our members, Arthur Kubias.
Arthur was a well-
There will be a memorial service held for him on Friday 4th September at the Church of Saint John the Baptist, Meopham at 2.30pm.
Our condolences go to Lesley and her family who will be in the thoughts of all Meopham Players at this time.
24th July, 2009
Well, we performed Quality of Mercy at the Medway Little Theatre on Wednesday 15th July, and we performed it very well. Indeed Alan, who played the part of Chapman, was so dedicated he went on stage with his hands smeared with some sort of chest rub, so that at the appropriate moment he could transfer it to his eyes to induce tears. It made for a quite an interesting perfume in the bar afterwards.
Sadly, we weren’t selected to repeat the performance in the final, but I think we all had a lot of fun on the way as well as the satisfaction of knowing we did the very best we could. The official results are listed below. The penned in numbers are mine, showing the order of merit.:
27th June, 2009
The Meopham Players group has a meeting on the first Wednesday of each month (apart
from the holiday month of August). Sometimes, if there is a production coming up
the same month, we have an Open Rehearsal which gives the actors a first chance to
judge audience reaction to their performances. Other times, as with the forthcoming
meeting on July 1st, we hold auditions -
But, many a time, we don’t have either of these and something will be organized by our Social Secretary. At the last meeting (June), we had a talk on:
Medieval Manners
At the monthly meeting in June, Imogen Corrigan gave a talk on Medieval Manners.
She immediately dispelled the popular image of people tearing away at great hunks
of meat and throwing the bones to the dogs brawling away on the rush-
It appears that, amongst the nobility, dining was a very civilised affair at trestle tables covered elegantly with cloths. It is true that meat of different kinds was the staple diet, many vegetables only being added to our diet at a later date. Originally hard flat bread was used as a plate, this later being replaced by wooden trenchers.
It was the custom of the time for the sons of noble households to be sent to other nobles for their education and training and part of that training was to serve at the tables, which was considered to be a great honour.
The talk was very entertaining and informative backed up with some excellent illustrations. Our thanks go to Imogen Corrigan for a thoroughly enjoyable evening.
Thanks go to our current Chairman, Brenda Ogden for that report.
We are now concentrating on the next production, which is our entry to the Duncan
Rand One-
We have been allocated the 8.30pm slot on Wednesday 15th July, so if you would like to come along and see us, you can get your tickets from the Box Office on 01634 400322.
You might also like to know that we will have a stand at the forthcoming Big Day
Out in Gravesend on Saturday 4th July where anyone interested in joining Meopham
Players can come along and see what we are about. We had something similar in Meopham
itself recently -
We were a bit worried about the weather during the few days preceding the event and
even contemplated cancelling our part in it if rain threatened. But we needn’t have
worried. On the Wednesday before, John O rang up one of his Rotary cronies, Bob Grieves
(pictured with the group below) and negotiated the loan of a gazebo, thus depriving
us of our last excuse for not turning up. 
On the day though, the weather was kind to us and there were only a very few drops of rain which the gazebo fended off without difficulty, so very many thanks for your generosity, Bob.
The event was pretty well attended and we had our fair share of visitors. Come to think of it, we had more than our fair share. The reason being the incredible performance put on by Matt Dallas in his guise of children’s entertainer. I had not seen Matt perform this role before but I am really pleased to have done so. If you liked Tommy Cooper, and can envisage him pitching his act at children, that would be a measure of Matt’s performance.
One of the great pleasures of being there on Saturday was watching the absorbed expressions
on the faces of the children as they followed his antics. So, many thanks Matt for
three hours (yes, three hours) of non-
Thanks too to the rest of the crew for setting up and manning the stall, namely: John, Sue, Brenda, Margaret and some other bloke.
6th June, 2009
Well, in the parlance of the film world, that’s another one in the can.
The performance of Priestley’s first play Dangerous Corner on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week represented the culmination of a dream by its Director, Joy Roberts, who saw the play some forty years ago and from that time had an ambition to produce it one day.
It was worth the wait.
Arguably, it was one of best performed plays by our company, bearing in mind the complexity of the plot and the extraordinarily long passages the actors had to take on board. This latter point could have led to the Prompt taking a major part, but the thoroughness of the rehearsals and the competence of the cast resulted in her hardly having to intervene at any stage.
It was, without doubt, a triumph and one that can be looked on with great pride by cast and crew and indeed anyone who had a hand in bringing it to our stage.
But, moving on, we now have Adrian Mole in our sights. This will be produced and directed by John Winson who will be having auditions at the Village Hall at 9pm on Wednesday 1st July, immediately after the AGM. Opening night will be on Thursday 29th October.
John clearly has no time for a quiet life as he is rarely uninvolved with any Meopham
Players productions. He has just finished playing the part of Charles Stanton in
Dangerous Corner. But not content with going on to produce our next play at the Village
Hall, he has also offered to take on the job of Stage Manager for our entry to the
Duncan Rand One-
Outside of theatrical activities, he has a demanding job which requires him to travel around the country on many occasions and in his spare time he coaches local youth teams in the art of rugby football.
The Quality of Mercy is the play we are entering for the Duncan Rand Festival. Chronologically, it will be performed before Adrian Mole, quite soon in fact, some time during the week commencing Monday 13th July. At the moment, we do not know which day, but the moment we do, we will put it on the web site. Should we be fortunate enough to reach the finals, the play will also be performed on Saturday 18th July. Louisa McNally makes her directing debut with this one. Her cast is:
Mary Sam Oliver
Chapman Alan Lawrence
John Tony Fish
The play is a black comedy in which the central character (not a nice man) awakes to find himself in a strange place, under interrogation. But where is he and who is doing the interrogating?
7th May, 2009
Just a small update. Those of you with AOL browsers will have realised that the music
playing is not what it says in the top right-
We’re working on it.
There are a few other minor things as noted in the What’s New page.
1st May, 2009
The Box Office for Dangerous Corner is now open.
Please note: Curtain-
THEATRE EXPERIENCE
Since the rather abrupt closure of the Kings Arms a few weeks ago, we were forced to consider making alternative arrangements for an addition to The George Inn for our Theatre Experience.
I am delighted to announce that Bartellas Restaurant on Wrotham Road, Meopham just south of Hook Green, has agreed to provide the same facility.
This will start with our production of “Dangerous Corner” from 6.00pm on all three nights of the 28th, 29th and 30th of May. Obviously you will need to leave by 7.30 at the latest, if you are to get into the car park at the Village Hall, but we have arranged with Meopham Secondary School for our patrons to use the school car park to should the Village Hall car park be full.
Those who know Bartellas, will appreciate that this is a great addition to our range and we hope therefore that you will encourage as many of your friends and colleagues to take advantage of both our Theatre Experience venues.
For those who have not eaten at Bartellas, or have yet to use the Theatre experience, we can guarantee that the quality of food and the service provided at both establishments is excellent, and for only £16 a head for a two course meal, at either establishment, and a ticket to the play, it is astonishing value for money anywhere.
So, do come along and try the Theatre Experience, you won’t be disappointed!
John Ogden
Front of House Manager
19th April, 2009
Now here’s a funny thing -
I told you the music playing was the theme from Due South. Well, that is wrong. For those of you who have AOL, at least you have music, but it is not what I said it was. It is from Due South, but it is a piece written and sung by Sarah McLachlan called Possession. For those of you whose ISP is Mozilla Firefox, on the other hand, it seems you have no music at all although I have gone through exactly the same sequence as for previously successfully installed clips, so I don’t know what’s going on. But I hope to find out soon. I’ll keep you posted.
16th April, 2009
Time to change the music, especially as the band has now left the site. What we had before was the theme tune from the American series, shown from 1990 to 1996, called Dream on. Judging from the reaction I had, it was not terribly well known. I liked it though and that’s what counts until someone else takes over from me.
The new piece -
Right -
Opening night for Dangerous Corner looms ever closer -
01474 814582
Next up will be our entry for the senior section of the Medway Little Theatre’s annual
Duncan Rand One-
There are three characters involved:
Mary: middle-
Chapman: a middle-
John: young to middle-
The play will be performed during the week commencing Monday 13th July, 2009.
Looking even further ahead, to the last week in October, 2009, we will be performing Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend. More details on this in a later update.
26th March, 2009
I am sure you will be pleased to know the Guest Book, as you may already have observed (even if you haven’t written in it) has now been brought back to working condition. So don’t hold back, use it to identify the show the tune comes from.
NEXT PRODUCTION
28th to 30th May, 2009 at
Meopham Village Hall
DANGEROUS CORNER
By
J.B.Priestley
CAST
Freda Caplan Keren Read
Miss Mockridge Brenda Ogden
Betty Whitehouse Becky Bridger
Olwen Peel Jules Doe
Charles Stanton John Winson
Gordon Whitehouse Matt Dallas
Robert Caplan Alan Lawrence
The cast is already a good way towards being off the book and morale is high, so
be ready to book your seats when the Box Office opens towards the end of April -
18th March, 2009
Just a short update this time to rearrange the band and to let you know the Guest
Page is currently under construction by the company that provides the guest book
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10th March, 2009
Okay! It appears that my forecast of our imminent demise proved to be wrong, thank
goodness. We have now made our transfer to our new domain provider. Not that there
weren’t a few final hiccoughs. When we got to the point of uploading to the web,
we found it wouldn’t take on AOL although it was fine on Mozilla Firefox -
So, it is back to business and I can tell you that preparations for Dangerous Corner are going well.
Although opening night is not until 28th May, some of our actors are already close to being off the book. For more information on this production, scroll down on this page.
Past Productions
Our pantomime, Once Upon A Time, has now taken its place on the Past Productions
page. I don’t have all the photographs yet, so we’ll have to make do with a few snaps
taken at the dress rehearsal for the time being -
Theme Music
The theme to Paddington Bear, as you no doubt realise, has given way to our new piece.
It belongs to a very successful American series that ran from 1990 to 1996. The central
character was male, in his early middle-
But what was it called?
Should you feel so moved, use the Guest Page to respond.
20th February, 2009
This could be the last time you see our web site in its current format. We have a problem, you see, brought about by the company from which we lease our domain deciding it no longer wishes to continue in this particular field. It has made arrangements for all its current domain holders to be transferred to another company, and for all I know the others may have gone through very smoothly. Ours hasn’t though and there is now less than a fortnight before the old company pulls the plug on us and deletes all our files.
I won’t bore you with details, but the correspondence -
So, there may be a break in the service while we consider our options -
Now, on to other matters. In the few days we have left, I’m sure you would like to
know that the last piece of music was the theme from -
PRODUCTIONS
I still don’t have the photographs for Once Upon a Time, consequently I am unable to update the Past Productions page and for the reasons given above, I may not have the chance to do so now. Suffice to say though, it all went well and great fun was had by audience, cast and crew.
But now, it is on to the next production -
CAST
Freda Caplan Keren Read
Miss Mockridge Brenda Ogden
Betty Whitehouse Becky Bridger
Olwen Peel Jules Doe
Charles Stanton John Winson
Gordon Whitehouse Matt Dallas
Robert Caplan Alan Lawrence
CREW
Prompt Sonia Williams
Stage Managers Matt Smith &
Terry Fairhead
Props Sue White
Costume Lisa Bryant
Lighting Bill Bates
Sound Fred Greenstreet
Director Joy Roberts
Assistant Director Terri Horton
THE WILMSLOW GREEN ROOM
You may recall that last September we had an Email from Emma Toms from Chesire who had stumbled across our web site and noticed on the Past Productions page we had recently performed Nobody’s Fool. She was particularly interested because her group was going to do the same play this year, her part being that of Dee Dee.
Well, it is all over now and we have lots of photographs and a video slide show which though far too numerous to put on this site are well worth looking at. So, if you are interested, let me know by the Meopham Players Email and I will forward them to you. To give you an idea of the excitement which this play generated, I have copied below part of Emma’s Email she sent a couple of weeks prior to opening night:
We are actually two weeks away from show week and I tell you I am seriously LOVING
being Dee Dee, she is amazing.
I have never so much enjoyed rehearsals, we do NOT
stop laughing, but then I also love the tender moments with Uncie (Grampi is now
Uncie because the two men are too close in age!), and Lenny when he's dressed as
Myrtle.
Our Letitia, June is mad as a hatter so her scenes are going to steal the
show!
Everyone involved is lovely and so talented. I played opposite Christina (Fran)
as Alice to her Annabel in Snake in the Grass by Alan Ayckbourn in the first play
of the season, so it's nice to do one with her where I can be nice!
I actually showed
Charlie our director (who's fantastic, so encouraging and patient), your photos of
the set because I thought it looked so amazing. I will send you all the photos I
accumulate!
In answer to your original question about the phone and the fish tank,
we have some very clever sound effects for various stages of distruction of Lenny's
Mobile which works. And Myrtle's ringtone is " Dude looks like a Lady"... genius!
On
the subject of music, we have a fantastic original piece of music Charlie wrote and
performed called " Nobody's Fool" which is just the perfect introduction to Lenny's
reflective opening scene.
I had the " My Mum ran off with an Italian and all I got
was this lousy T Shirt" T Shirt actually made and I wear it in the second act which
looks so funny.
I have made Dee Dee (with the glastonbury and Justin references) quite
punky and unique, coloured hair pieces, dark make up etc.
We did however notice a
few holes in the script like the phone ringing for Dee Dee (Once Lenny already disconnected
it!), and updated it slightly, ie The Emirates instead of Highbury during the baby
conversation.
All in all it's going really well and I cannot wait for show week :)
I literally long for rehearsals and I know I'm going to be gutted when it closes.
2nd February, 2009
You can look on this as a sort of interim update, just to acknowledge the end of
the pantomime season -
At the moment, I don’t have the photographs from this latest production Once Upon A Time, but the moment I do, I will update the Past Productions page. In the meantime, I can tell you that the show was very well received, especially by the children who responded with enthusiastic jeering each time the villainous Baron (Henry Roberts) appeared.
There will be a fuller report at the next update.
You will, without doubt, note the change of music. The previous theme, as I’m sure most of you will have guessed, was that from “Minder”, sung by Dennis Waterman. The one playing now is from what became a sort of cult series, which perhaps the music itself helped to foster.
What was the show?
10th January, 2009
Right! Well, that’s now sorted. You will note the music has changed -
No doubt, most of you will know the current piece of music, especially as the programme is now being repeated on one of the Freeview channels. But I won’t confirm what it is until we make the next change.