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Players Dramatic Society is an Amateur Dramatic Society based in Cheadle Hulme, South Manchester. We have our own theatre with bar and lounge facilities.

Welcome To Players Website

Welcome to Players Dramatic Society. Established in 1925 and based at Players Theatre, Anfield Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.
We perform 5 main productions throughout our season, together with two Youth productions and one Youth showcase. We have a varied social calendar throughout the year which non members are welcome to attend, for more information on upcoming events see details on the right hand side of this page.
We look forward to seeing you at the theatre.

Youth Group

We have a Youth Group for 12 to 18 year olds run by a qualified drama teacher which meets on Tuesday evenings from 7.00 to 9.00 pm . The Group put on two productions a year. Click for more info

Activities

We welcome acting and non-acting Members. There are opportunities for stage management, props., sound, lighting, set construction and décor, wardrobe, publicity and catering.

As well as plays we also have a variety of Social Activities.

Players Theatre is available for hire and has:

  • tiered seating for audiences of 100
  • ample off road car parking
  • a comfortable bar
  • audio loop system for the hard of hearing
  • toilet facilities for the disabled

Season 2012 - 2013

Sun, 20/05/2012 - 19:30 - Sat, 29/09/2012 - 19:30

Players Dramatic Society are pleased to annouce the plays for 2012-13.

Shakers by Jon Godber

Every town has its "Shakers- the oh so trendy cocktail bar where everyone wants to be seen: from the check out girls, the chinless wonders, from the yuppies to the local lads tittering at the thought of a "long slow comfortable screw". We are given a wickedly funny glimpse of this world by the four long suffering waitresses, offering a fascinating view of the reality that lurks behind the plastic palms and pina coladas

29th September – 6th October 2012

My Boy Jack by David Haig

The year is 1913 and war with Germany is imminent. Rudyard Kipling’s determination to send his myopic son to war triggers a bitter family conflict which leaves Britain’s renowned patriot devastated by the warring of his own greatest passions: his love for children -above all, his own – and his devotion to King and Country

17th – 24th November 2012

Out of Order by Ray Cooney

When Richard Willey, a Government Junior Minister, plans to spend the evening with Jane Worthington, one of the opposition’s typists, things go disastrously wrong, beginning with the discovery of a "body" trapped in the hotel’s only unreliable sash window. Desperately trying to get out of an extremely sticky situation, Richard calls for his PPS George Pigden who, through Richard’s lies sinks further and further into trouble with everybody and ends up going through an identity crisis. Things go from bad to worse with the arrival of Ronnie, Jane’s distraught husband and with the additions of an unscrupulous waiter; Mrs Willey and Nurse Foster things really come to a head!19th – 26th January 2013

 

The Retreat from Moscow by William Nicholson

Edward & Alice have been married for 33 years. He is a teacher at a boy’s school, perfectly at home with his crossword and lately engrossed in reading about Napoleon’s costly invasion of Moscow. She is an observant catholic, exciting and opinionated and has been collecting poems about lost love for a new anthology. James their diffident 32 year old son is visiting for the weekend when Edward announces he has met another woman. The plays shine a breathtakingly natural light on the fallout of a shattered marriage

16th – 23rd March 2013

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a comment on women's independence, packaged as a romantic comedy.

11th – 18th May 2013

If you are interested in performing in any of these productions, auditions are being held in the bar at the theatre on Tueday 22nd & Thursday 24th May. Further details to follow.

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