Tag / amateur dramatics

 

The Players do Winslow

Review of Terence Rattigan’s “The Winslow Boy” performed by the Grasmere Players.

 

Every year when we go up to Grasmere we try to fit in a performance by The Grasmere Players. The expertise and professionalism of the troupe never ceases to amaze us. Despite the limitations of a village hall, the set is always excellent and the costume design well researched and executed. The standard...

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Café Rene comes to Taunton

Review of “Allo Allo” by @2K Theatre Company at the Tacchi Morris Arts Centre, Taunton

I was never a fan of “Allo Allo” on television, but my husband loved and it and we used to watch it with the children, so when we saw there was a stage production at the Tacchi Morris Arts Centre in Taunton he was keen to go. The  @2K Theatre Company  are a newly formed amateur theatre company. We...

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Am Drams

  We went to the theatre twice last week, two different theatres, two very different plays, both put on by local amateur dramatic clubs. The theatre in our county town of Taunton, The Brewhouse, has had to close due to lack of funding. Another unfortunate “sign of the times”. For the last three years the local amateur dramatic and opera groups have been unable to afford the weekly hire charge of £10,000 and have been performing in other venues like the Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre in Monkton Heathfield and the Regal Theatre in Minehead. There is a campaign...

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