Leckhampton Players
The Leckhampton Players is an amateur dramatics company based in Leckhampton, near Cheltenham. Founded in 1947, it performs regularly at Leckhampton Village Hall.[1] Productions typically include a pantomime in January/February each year, a musical show in May/June, and a play (most often comedy/farce) in October. The Players celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1997.
The Players won the Gloucestershire Drama Association[2][3] award for Best Pantomime in 2000, 2001 and 2006.[4]
Historical Productions
[edit]- 1970 Puss in Boots[5]
- Productions since 1975[6]
Recent Productions
[edit]- 2011 Old Time Music Hall
- 2011 Mother Goose
- 2010 S(w)inging the 60's
- 2010 Dry Rot
- 2010 Dick Whittington
- 2009 Hello & Goodbye
- 2009 Viva Mexico
- 2009 Raise the Roof (charity fundraising concert)
- 2009 The Wizard of Oz
- 2008 Kindly Keep It Covered
- 2008 From Stage to Screen
- 2008 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- 2007 Murder in Play
- 2007 Murder at the Music Hall
- 2007 Frankenstein - The Panto
- 2006 Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime
- 2006 Wild Wild Women
- 2006 Cinderella
References
[edit]- ^ Leckhampton Village Hall
- ^ Gloucestershire Theatre - Gloucestershire Drama Association Archived 2012-07-20 at archive.today
- ^ Gloucestershire Drama Association Archived 2011-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Leckhampton Players historical information Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Heasman, E (compiler), 1998, 'Images of England - Cheltenham', Tempus Publishing Limited, page 88 (part of The Archive Photographs series)
- ^ Leckhampton Players Past Productions Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
External links
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