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

• 1970 Puss in Boots ^[5]
• Productions since 1975 ^[6]

Recent Productions

• 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

1. Leckhampton Village Hall
2. Gloucestershire Theatre - Gloucestershire Drama Association ^{[ usurped ]}
3. Gloucestershire Drama Association Archived 2011-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
4. Leckhampton Players historical information Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
5. Heasman, E (compiler), 1998, 'Images of England - Cheltenham', Tempus Publishing Limited, page 88 (part of The Archive Photographs series)
6. Leckhampton Players Past Productions Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Leckhampton Players