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Our programme for the 2009 -
All plays are performed at Players Theatre, Anfield Road, Cheadle Hulme, SK8 5EX. Performances start at 7.45 pm. Plays run every evening from Saturday to Saturday, excluding Sundays. Ticketing
September 26th -
The End of the Food Chain
by Tim Firth
directed by John Price
by Tim Firth
directed by John Price
The play tells the tale of a motley crew of lads whose night-time world of not very much work and plenty of silly games with food (fish fencing and flan discus to name but two) is rudely shaken by the arrival of a woman - Debbie, She is witty and ambitious and, worst of all, their leader rather likes her. So that's the end of games with food, and the start of a highly cerebral murder mystery game that brings out hidden sides to everyone's personalities and raises the burning question - who threw the frozen sprout that badly injured their former workmate?
November 14th -
And A Nightingale Sang
by Cecil Taylor
directed by Derek Slater
by Cecil Taylor
directed by Derek Slater
The play is thirty years old and is set in the Newcastle of thirty years or so before that, from the day war broke out to VE Day, and follows the fortunes of the Stott family from Walker in Newcastle. If we have to categorise it, it would probably be as a bitter-sweet domestic comedy but that is to under-sell it. It is firmly rooted in working class life and values, with the somewhat ambiguous position of women in a society which was firmly patriarchal but also, in the North Eastern working class, thoroughly matriarchal.
December 12th - 13th
The Infant School Nativity +
A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
adapted for Players Youth
- a full-scale production, incorporating mime and movement work alongside traditional text
adapted for Players Youth
January 16th -
Something Blue – by Gill Adams
directed by Barbara Ritchie
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd
directed by Barbara Ritchie
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd
It's going to be the Wedding of the Year - money is no object and the Minster in Beverley has been booked for over a year. Vera, the groom's mum, has everything under control, but what no one could have foreseen is that Pam and Mickey's wedding would fall on the same day as Princess Diana's funeral. But it's not just a day for tears; this play is about love, courage and truth with a few unexpected celebrations.
March 6th -
Murder by Misadventure
by Edward Taylor
directed by Jean Cox
by Edward Taylor
directed by Jean Cox
Laughs, thrills and mind-boggling twists abound in this ingenious thriller. It has a last-scene dénouement which turns every table, until you are left giddy with bewilderment.
May 8th -
Blue Remembered Hills
by Dennis Potter,
directed by David Ward
by Dennis Potter,
directed by David Ward
One of Potter's best known and best loved plays, Blue Remembered Hills follows the adventures of a group of 7 year olds one summer's day in war-time Britain - 1943. They fight, they play, they argue, bully, romp, joke, and cry - but these 7 year olds are all played by adults.
