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24 Aug
The Kersey Collective are bringing a new play, The Pang Valley Chalk Circle to locations in Yattendon (16th September), Newbury (18th September), and Cold Ash (19th September) all at 7:30.
Fun, songs, love and live action takes you on a quest with Gwen to save an abandoned boy.
Review of KATS' production of ’Allo ’Allo2 – the Camembert Capers: "hilarious... a great show"
26 Jul
New Era Players' next production from 10th to 19th September is Lords and Ladies.
26 Jul
Newbury Dramatic Society's next production from 1st to 4th September in and around Newbury is
A Tale of Beatrix Potter.
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Newbury Dramatic Society's next production from 1st to 4th September in and around Newbury is A Tale of Beatrix Potter. This is a short play for 4 charities, in which we are “playing for the community”, our yearly aim to help where we can. The play explores the interesting life of Beatrix Potter, and gives examples of her quirky animal stories. Suitable for adults and children, with costumes and sound effects, which we hope are amusing!
New Era Players' next production from 10th to 19th September is Lords and Ladies. The play, adapted from the novel by Terry Pratchett, is vaguely A Midsummer Night’s Dream but with witches, young and not so young, a king and his bride to be, rude mechanicals, three wizards (two in human form and one who likes books, bananas and peanuts, not necessarily in that order) and a group of beings from another realm: glamorous but evil. Their appearance is one of the themes of the play, showing how people can be bamboozled by glitz and glamour and not see the evil beneath.
The Kersey Collective are bringing a new play, The Pang Valley Chalk Circle to locations in Yattendon (16th September), Newbury (18th September), and Cold Ash (19th September) all at 7:30. Fun, songs, love and live action takes you on a quest with Gwen to save an abandoned boy. Like the child, our chalk rivers are hurting. Have local people got what it takes to improve our relations with the natural world? Can we make the river our kin? Tickets from ticketsource.com/the-kersey-collective,
Faringdon Dramatic Society's 19th September production is 100 Years of Musicals.Join us for a one-off concert which spans the rich evolution from the Jazz Age of the 1920s to modern West End sensations, featuring landmark composers like Gershwin, Rodgers & Hammerstein and Sondheim.
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