Category Archives: Monthly Updates

June Update

Posted on May 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

Have you been to a Blewbury Players performance?  Never quite get round to it? Why not make this year the year you come along?

Friends and family coming to visit?      Why not get tickets for the comedy ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ ,  bring a picnic tea and have pre-show drinks from the bar in the Orchard Dene garden?  Garden and bar open from 7pm and in the interval. Come and watch a play full of comedy, mistaken identity, deception and romance – a fun, enjoyable and relaxing way to spend a summer evening right on your doorstep.

Performances 18th – 21st July Orchard Dene Garden Theatre, Blewbury

BOX OFFICE OPENS on Saturday June 9th at 10 – 12 noon in The Clubhouse, Blewbury Recreation Ground.  Refreshments for early birds!

After this, tickets available from:
- Savages (A417) Mon 9-6pm & from 10-12 Sat mornings (cash or cheque only).
- ONLINE (link from www.blewburyplayers.co.uk on a best available seat basis.
- Cornerstone (credit/debit card or cash – tel: 01235 515144)

Adults £12     Child/student £6 (18 & under)

Group tickets: For those purchasing multiple tickets, for the same performance, you get one free ticket with every ten purchased.

Family friendly tickets: Where children are accompanied by an adult, for each two children paying the child price you get one free child ticket.

On-line ticketing: no booking fee charged but no special offers

No refund or exchange but rain-check vouchers may be given – see Terms & Conditions

‘Underneath the Floorboards.

In Cooperation with Ballet Lorent, the Players are presenting a dance workshop for 3 to 5 year olds in the Methodist Chapel on Monday 25 June. This is based on Ballet Lorent’s sell-out show Underneath the Floorboards (see www.balletlorent.com) and will be an enjoyable and energetic experience for little ones and accompanying parents. We are running a workshop for the Playgroup in the morning and an open workshop for others at 4.00 pm. Tickets for the open workshop are £3.50 per child and available from the Post Office.’

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April Update

Posted on April 8, 2012 | Leave a comment

Are you a friend of Blewbury Players?

What are the advantages?

  • An annual event at Oak Hall House. In February, the Friends enjoyed a reading by the Players of an adaptation of Dickens’ The Haunted Man.
  • Priority booking for a minimum of two tickets for most events and performances.
  • Special event on opening night of the summer production at Orchard Dene Garden Theatre. Friends are served food and drink, before the play and during the interval, and are also invited to meet the director and cast.
  • Friends also receive regular newsletters and updates.

This is all for an annual subscription of £15. This is much appreciated help which has provided resources towards the costs of many things including the maintenance of the garden theatre, improving cast changing facilities, and various technical equipment.

Thank you to Julie Heatherington who has done such a wonderful job of being secretary to the Friends and has now decided to step down. Tracy Silverthorne has kindly agreed to take on this role. If you would like to become a friend please contact her via our Friends page.

In other news…

She Stoops to Conquer has now been cast. Congratulations to all and good luck with rehearsals.

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February Update

Posted on January 21, 2012 | Leave a comment

We can now confirm She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith, as the summer production, a brilliant and very well-known play with a splendid cast of characters, to be directed by Lydia Milman Schmidt, introduced to us by Laura Baggaley, our Director Emeritus, who directed The Winter’s Tale for us in 2007 and Twelfth Night in 2009.

Auditions will be on 25th & 26th February. Please contact Peter Saunders on 850245 to arrange an audition. Small and big parts for adults of all ages and we anticipate some parts for children of about 12 or older. We also welcome local people who would like to be involved with other non-acting roles such as wardrobe, scenery, construction, etc…..

A new adaptation of Great Expectations by the well-known children’s author Julia Golding (better known to us as Julia Saunders) has been postponed till next year, the 201st anniversary of Dickens’s birth rather than the 200th!

Workshops, rehearsals and lots of fun & hard work are underway for the youth production of Under Milk Wood directed by Jo Laugharne. This will be performed on 30th & 31st March in Blewbury Village Hall. Box Office opens at the Post Office on 3rd March. This production is going to be very special as it involves children from school years 5 -12 working together. Youngsters are taking on roles in stage management, lighting, front of house and finances with adult mentors.

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