From April 2023 the Gage will have a vacancy for the role of Honorary Secretary on the committee.
This important job has been slimmed down considerably, with areas of work being assigned to others in order to spread the load, and we hope that this will make it an attractive proposition for a new member of the team.
The key aspects of the job will be setting agendas for committee meetings (currently held about monthly via Zoom), using the previous meeting’s agenda as a template and adding any new items notified since then; then writing up the meeting minutes promptly, with action points for various people marked throughout. The post-holder would do the same for the Gage AGM, held in March, from 2024 onwards.
Draft agendas and minutes are sent to the committee chair for approval before being circulated to the committee and sub-committee by the secretary. The present post-holder would forward previous documents by email as a support.
So we are seeking someone with a good grasp of administration, able to write and communicate clearly and precisely, and who is competent on a computer to make well-organised files and folders as part of the Gage’s record and archive system.
If you are interested in becoming part of a vibrant and friendly group in the Tadworth and Walton community, please contact us by email at friends@thegageplayers.co.uk
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Newsletter – December 2022
Dear members and friends,
Seasons greetings to you all. The snowy landscape has been beautiful, but back to rain is safer. Maybe there will be no white Christmas, but we hope it will be less cold and easier to keep warm.
I’ll begin this newsletter with an important request. We will be needing a secretary in April 2023 as our present much-respected secretary will be leaving us at the end of March after many years on the committee in this role. The person we require would need good organisational and administrative skills and would be responsible for the agendas and minutes of our committee meetings. We meet about once a month via Zoom. It is not necessary to have a great deal of theatrical knowledge or experience, as committee members will be able to advise when needed. The Gage committee are enthusiastic for our continued success and are a friendly group. The Gage aim to put on two full-length plays and two rehearsed readings each year. We would also like to add members to our committee, so that ideas and tasks can be efficiently shared. If you are interested in joining, please email friends@thegageplayers.co.uk
Congratulations to all involved on a resounding success in our rehearsed play reading with supper on 10th December, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by Pip Rolls (also taking acting parts due to cast illness). This play required many scene changes, costume changes and lighting and sound atmospherics for scene changes. Altogether a huge challenge for cast, crew, front of house and all those involved in creating this performance. The feedback from the audience was very satisfying – all thoroughly enjoyed the evening, with many wanting to know when the next event will be. We made a good amount of much-needed money to add to our funds. A heartfelt thank you to all involved!
It has been agreed to resume our very popular informal Zoom evenings for poetry and prose for Gage members, families and friends. We choose to read poems, prose, extracts from plays, or one-act plays. Anything that appeals at the time. You are welcome to join in the meeting, bring something you would like to read or simply join the meeting and enjoy listening. We cover a variety of comedy, drama or even short plays written by a member. The next Zoom meeting will be on Wednesday, 18th January at 8pm. Contact us via friends@thegageplayers.co.uk for the link.
Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders written by Derek Webb and directed by Lesley Crowther-Smith is our next planned Spring production, due to play on 27th, 28th and 29th April 2023, a comedy whodunit that will appeal to you all and keep you guessing until the end! Please make a note of the dates in your diary, and we look forward to seeing you there.
Lesley Crowther-Smith will also be leading a drama lesson/theatre workshop in March with Walton School, where we hold our rehearsals. It is also hoped that we can liaise with Walton School over a matinee performance some time next year to present poems written and read by the children, alongside some of our own members reading their own choices.
Looking ahead to our Winter production in November – due to Covid restrictions, this will be our fourth attempt to perform Molly’s Calling, written by Pip Rolls. Please note the dates in your diaries – 23rd, 24th and 25th November 2023. We are again looking for a caretaker director, with most of the cast willing to remain in their roles after this three-year delay. As the play was originally to be directed by the author and was at performance level, a caretaker director would just need to oversee the performers and bring the play back to life again. Is anyone amongst you keen to volunteer and try your hand at directing with us?
It is hoped that we will perform a rehearsed reading with supper in September 2023. Chris Slater usually finds the play and directs it – however we ask whether anyone knows a one-act play that they have enjoyed watching or performing in to please let us know. It would be useful to have a few to choose from for rehearsed readings and also to use for our informal Zoom poetry and prose evenings.
Forward planning for Spring 2024 – possibly The Nightingales by Peter Quilter.
I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year.
Best wishes,
Gay
Gay Weeden,
Chair, Gage Committee
Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders – April 2023
The Gage Players present, in association with Stagescripts, Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders by Derek Webb.
Agatha Crusty (pronounced Croosty) is a crime novelist. She’s also pretty adept at solving crimes. And when her sister-in-law Alice invites her to spend a few days with her in the village of Chortelby, it’s not long before she gets caught up in a series of murders which seem directed at members of the All Saints Village Hall committee.
From Toby, the Vicar, and Eleanor, Chair of the committee, to Harry Knott the caretaker and identical twins Olivia and Oliver Truscott-Pratt, there are plenty of suspects. And with an investigating officer as incompetent as D.I. Twigg, there are plenty of laughs as the murders begin to pile up.
But, while packed full of wit and very funny scenes, this is also a genuine murder mystery with an ingenious plot which will tax the little grey cells of the audience at the same time!
A Christmas Carol
In December 2022 The Gage Players presented a rehearsed reading of Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol”, adapted and directed by Pip Rolls. A very pleasant evening was had by all, audience, cast and backstage crew alike. The Gage Players try to put on at least one rehearsed reading a year.
Newsletter – September 2022
Dear Friends and Members,
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It is with sadness that we mourn the passing of our wonderful Queen Elizabeth II, a much-loved and respected Sovereign who throughout 70 years never failed in her duty. Her radiant smile will be missed by all. We send our condolences to the Royal Family. |
The Gage Players are proud to present two one-act plays this coming on Saturday, 24th September. Playgoers is a comedy by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, directed by Christopher Slater as a rehearsed reading. Set before the First World War, this is a brief glimpse of the problems that arise for a newly married couple employing staff for their home, a situation perfect for showcasing a collection of interesting, and amusing, characters.
The second rehearsed reading is an abridged adaptation by Pip Rolls of Under Milk Wood, a play by Dylan Thomas originally performed as a radio play in America. This is written with a lot of sly humour, and our presentation reading is also played as if in a radio studio, jointly directed by Pip and Chris.
I hope you have booked your table, or places at a table, for 7pm on Saturday, bringing your supper and wine, beer or soft drinks to enjoy before the curtain goes up – coffee and tea will be served during the interval. If you haven’t already booked your places, £10 a head, please ring the box office on 01737 812 703. As we have tables, not rows of chairs, seating is limited, so do ring as soon as possible to secure your seat.
We are grateful to the Tadworth and Walton Residents’ Association for their contribution of £300 to help cover the cost of the annual insurance necessary to any production. We are constantly trying to raise money for our plays, and any contributions or ideas towards fund-raising are very much appreciated.
To put us all into the Christmas spirit, on Saturday, 10th December we shall be performing scenes from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by Pp Rolls – another rehearsed reading with your supper and drinks to start the festive evening.
Audition invitations will be emailed on Monday, 10th October, with audition slots notified between 11th to 14th October – the auditions themselves will be held by Zoom at pre-arranged times between 31st October and 4th November. There are many parts, of different sizes, so do try an audition with us – if you’ve never acted before but have a yearning to do so, now is your opportunity to take a small part. The Gage are a friendly crowd, and give each other lots of support.
We intend to reinstate our regular Zoom evenings of poetry-prose-short play readings, all your own choices, as they were so popular during lockdowns. If you’d rather just listen in, that’s fine, too. Dates will be sent out in due course.
The Gage Invitational Trophy Quiz is due to be hosted by St Mark’s Players on a Saturday evening in September 2023, at St Katherine’s Hall, Merstham. There will be more news about this later, but do pencil the notion in your diary.
2023. At last we hope to be able to perform a full-length play for our Spring production, a village whodunit that combines laughs within its twists and turns, to be directed by Chris Slater. It is over two years since we have put on a full play, due to Covid lockdowns, which forced cancellations and financial losses on us. So we are happily looking forward with confidence to our Spring play being performed. The dates for your diary are 27th, 28th and 29th Aril, 2023.
Our planned Winter 2023 production, Molly’s Calling by Pip Rolls, will be on 23rd, 24th and 25th November. This will be our fourth attempt to stage the clever, funny play as it repeatedly fell victim to the lockdowns and our resultant financial shortfall – one blow after another for our writer/director, cast and crew. This time it must happen!
So, plenty of exciting events to come, and we look forward to seeing you next Saturday, 24th September, for Playgoers and Under Milk Wood at the Riddell Hall – 7pm with your supper, drinks, family and friends.
Best wishes,
Gay
Gay Weeden, Chair, The Gage Players
Newsletter August 2022
Dear Friends and Members,
How are you all? We won’t forget the summer of 2022, with the intense heatwave and now a probable drought. Isn’t it good to feel cool air again, and mustn’t grumble when it rains!
The Gage are delighted and grateful to have received a donation of £450 from the Pageant Committee following the Walton May Pageant, where we had the Gage Bottle Tombola stall. This has eased our finances and will help to enable us to put on a full-length play in April 2023.
After a short summer break, the Gage are looking towards the September rehearsed play reading to be directed by Christopher Slater. Talented Chris has recently celebrated his forthcoming birthday with his concert of choral and organ music at St Peter’s Church, Walton on the Hill. Sadly I was unable to attend but have heard how the concert was enjoyed, appreciated and very much praised by those who went.
So, on 24th September from 7pm at the Riddell Hall, Walton on the Hill, our rehearsed play reading (when you bring your own supper and drinks) will be Playgoers, a comedy by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero. Set before the First World War, enjoy a ‘what the butler saw’ glimpse into the domestic life of a newly wed couple when the wife wishes to give her staff the rare treat of a night off to go to the theatre. Unexpected reactions from these ill-assorted characters – not quite Downton Abbey!
Seating is at pre-booked table places only. £10 a head. Box office number is 01737 812 703. Do book early as table seating places are in more limited numbers than with conventional hall seating.
At our committee meeting this month we discussed how popular our Zoom poetry/play readings had become during Lockdowns, and we would like to reinstate these evenings for all to enjoy, especially those who, for various reasons, can’t easily go out. More about this in our next newsletter.
As you are aware, we are looking for ways to raise funds. If you have any used printer ink cartridges please save them for us. If enough can regularly be collected they would raise a small income for us. These can be sent or delivered to our treasurer’s address (Rod Lucas, Heatherview, Dorking Road, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 5SA).
Looking ahead to 10th December this year, the Gage Players will perform another rehearsed reading with bring your own supper and drinks – Scenes from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by Pip Rolls. Audition invitations will be emailed on 10th October, with audition times and scripts sent between 11th to 14th October, to be followed by auditions via Zoom at pre-arranged times between 31st October and 4th November. Please note these dates on your calendar if you wish to take part.
2023
In March we are presenting a matinee (with tea) deferred for more than a year by Covid. Children from the top two classes at Walton School will compete to take part by writing or reading their own favourite poem. The successful ones chosen by their teachers will perform on stage at the Riddell Hall, alternating with members of the Gage reading their own choice. This will be varied and fun – more news of this in the New Year.
Planned spring production! On 27th, 28th and 29th April we expect to stage Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders, written by Derek Webb and directed by Chris Slater, a comedy ‘whodunnit’ keeping you guessing with its twists and turns until the end! Partially cast a while ago, but Covid curtailed, we are happy and relieved to be able to take this further. Now that we have confidence that it will be staged, the audition notice for the remaining roles will be circulated in the New Year, when we expect to apply for the performance licence.
Molly’s Calling by Pip Rolls is waiting in the wings to be our November 2023 production on 23rd, 24th and 25th November. Fourth time lucky?!
We celebrate that The Gage Players are back and have exciting times ahead. We look forward to seeing you at Playgoers on 24th September.
Best wishes to you all.
Gay
Gay Weeden, Chair, The Gage Players
NEWSLETTER – APRIL 2022
The Gage Players newsletter, April, 2022
Dear Members and Friends,
What a lovely Easter we’ve had and I do hope you enjoyed the weekend in the sun.
Whilst we have been unable to perform a spring production this year, due to Covid and our dwindling funds, applications have been made for grants, but they unfortunately take time. It is a waiting game. However, there are many interesting events in the pipeline, one or two of them by fellow local community groups:
Gala Organ Recital at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Tadworth
Saturday, 14th May, 2022 at 6.30pm
By Simon Johnson, one of the world’s leading organists, including music by Bach, Liszt, Vaughan Williams and Franck.
Wine and soft drinks at 6.30, concert at 7.00pm, and at 8.15pm adjourn to the Church Hall for a finger buffet, wine and soft drinks.
Admission is by pre-purchased tickets at £15 per person, which includes refreshments, but there is no charge to accompanied children under 18.
On-line: www.ticketsource.co.uk/goodshepherdtadworth
By phone: 01737 556 219
The Walton May Pageant, 21st May, 2022
The procession from Walton Pond starts at 2pm. We are running the Gage Players/bottle tombola stall and would be grateful for help and donations, not only of alcohol but bottles or jars of anything from ketchup, jam, marmalade and lemonade to gin and fizz, so that there is something for all winners. This promises to be a very popular and busy stall, so if any of you members, friends and family can join in, please let us know, then we can set up a rota of helpers to set up the stall, run it throughout the day, and dismantle it at the end. Please help – thank you. If you can help, please email us at friends@thegageplayers.co.uk
Platinum Jubilee Tea Party, 3rd June 2022
Friday, 3rd June, 2022 at 2.30pm in Jubilee Wood, Tadworth (Tadworth Street next to the railway bridge)
All users of the woodland are welcome.
Bring along your own rugs or seating and any additional food you may require.
Sadly no dogs except guide dogs.
gbockmeulen@hotmail.com
Tadworth and Walton Residents’ Association
The Gage midsummer lunch out of doors
We would like to hold a midsummer lunch, probably in a pub garden, either a barbecue or from the pub’s main menu. We will let you know the venue, date and time as soon as possible. It would be good to meet up.
A 90th birthday celebration, 14th August, 2022, St Peter’s Church, Walton
Our active Gage member, Chris Slater, who directs for us, has also had a very successful career as a professional musician – he is an accomplished organist, pianist, choirmaster and conductor, as well as having taught at the Royal College of Music. His most recent distinctions include a master’s degree in conducting from Chichester University, achieving a 2021 sponsored play-through on the organ at home of hymn music in Hymns Ancient and Modern (completed by Whitsun 2021, raising over £1,200 for his local organ fund), and in October last year being made an honorary Associate of the Royal School of Church Music at a ceremony in Durham Cathedral.
Chris is planning to hold a concert to celebrate his 90th birthday on 14th August, 2022 (though the actual day is in December). This will be held at 3.15pm at St Peter’s Church, Walton on the Hill, followed by tea at 4.15pm at Breech Lane Community Hall in Walton. There will be no charge for concert or tea, though a retiring collection will be made after the concert to benefit St Peter’s. Although this is an event personally organised by Chris, the Gage Players will be supporting him wholeheartedly in the audience, and we hope you may join us.
Gage Players rehearsed reading with supper, 24th September 2022
This will be Playgoers by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, directed by Chris Slater. This has been deferred since lockdown, so we are delighted to be staging it. We hope the original cast are still available, but if not everyone is, a call for auditions/read-throughs will go out a bit later on, dates to be during September at Chris’s home, with a couple of rehearsals there as well, before transferring to the Riddell Hall. Please put the date in your diary now.
Gage Players rehearsed reading with supper, 3rd or 10th December 2022
Christmas may seem a long way off, but we are looking forward to early December when we will present scenes from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which should put everyone into the true Christmas spirit (some of you may remember The Gage’s full production of this, back in 2003!). A firm performance date, as well as audition and rehearsal dates, will be notified nearer the time, so please keep some space in your December diary
Joint event with Walton School, March 2023
It has been agreed with the school that our first planned joint event – a pop-up poetry matinee with interval tea – should be delayed from this March to March 2023. I sincerely hope that this dreaded Covid virus is over by then, or at least that life will be much more manageable. More information on this show later in the year.
Gage Players spring play, April 2023
Hoping that we receive some grant monies and that we ourselves have raised funds throughout this year, we are planning to perform Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders by Derek Webb, directed by Chris Slater. This play was already partially cast before Covid problems hit us again, but a call for auditions will go out once we know we can safely fund the production and that we have put all the practicalities in hand.
We hope to have some interim activities during 2023, but then we look forward to:
Gage Players winter play, November 2023
We are determined to make a fourth attempt to perform Molly’s Calling written by Pip Rolls. This clever, funny play so deserves to be seen. Anyone who saw our performance of Pip’s What Really Happened in February will share our enthusiasm for his work, I’m sure.
Enjoy our lovely spring.
Best wishes,
Gay
Newsletter – March 2022
Dear Friends and Members,
While enjoying this sunny spring day, I’m reflecting on our first Annual General Meeting in two years, held on 22nd March via Zoom. We now enjoy freedom from lockdown, and the Gage is looking forward to summer events, when we hope you will be there with us.
The Walton May Pageant, on 21st May, is an interesting and deservedly popular event, where we look forward to running our Gage stall and the bottle tombola stall next door to it. Donations of bottles would be appreciated, please, as the tombola is a great draw for people, so the more, the merrier!
However, the Pop-up Poetry matinee performance with Walton on the Hill Primary School has been deferred to March 2023. So many Surrey school children are now unwell with Covid, plus their families and teachers in many cases, that a September date would have been the earliest feasible one – but then the children in the top two classes would have changed at the start of the school year, leaving little time for all the preparation involved, and then closely followed by a very busy November/December getting ready for the school’s Christmas events. So they have agreed that next March would be best, and we look forward to that.
Our active member, Chris Slater, an accomplished organist, pianist, choirmaster and conductor, is planning a concert to celebrate his 90th birthday. His proposed date is 14th August at 3.15pm at St Peter’s Church, Walton on the Hill, followed by tea at 4.15pm at Breech Lane Community Hall. The programme is chosen but Chris is looking for more tenors and basses. The music would be rehearsed at 2pm ahead of the concert, so singers would need to be good sight-readers. Please contact the Gage if you can help. Although this is an event personally organised by Chris, the Gage will wholeheartedly be supporting him in the audience.
A rehearsed reading with supper is planned for 24th September – Playgoers by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, directed by Chris Slater. Audition dates at Chris’s home will be set nearer the time.
Once again, our hoped-for winter production is going to be Molly’s Calling by Pip Rolls, performance dates planned as 24th, 25th and 26th November. Due to Covid and lockdowns, this would be our fourth attempt to stage this wonderful comedy and we will be so happy to see it performed on stage at last.
Two grant applications are in progress for funding to tide us over until we have built up our reserves to pay the very considerable up-front costs for a main production, and our winter play this year is partly contingent on our receiving at least one of these grants, so we eagerly await news .
Looking ahead to 2023, we hope to put on another main production in April, directed by Chris Slater, audition, rehearsal and production dates to advised at a later date.
Wishing you all a happy Easter when it comes, and looking forward to seeing you soon.
Best wishes,
Gay
Gay Weeden
Chair, The Gage Players
Newsletter – February 2022
Dear Friends and Members,
I hope you are keeping well and are enjoying a bit more freedom now that most Covid restrictions have ended. I am writing this on a bright, crisp day, looking forward to the coming of Spring, with longer and warmer days ahead.
The Gage were delighted to tread the boards last Saturday with our first stage event in two years, an informal occasion for Gage members, their families and friends. Five short, historical comedies written and directed by Pip Rolls made up an evening of rehearsed readings, and they were hugely enjoyed by everyone – Pip, cast and crew, and visitors. The audience were amazed by the quirky twists and turns, altering the outcomes of history, and said what a clever concept it was and how much they’d relished it all. We were pleased that in the end more people came to enjoy the fun than was initially anticipated, and also that we were able to recoup a small part of the losses made in March 2020 when we were obliged to cancel a full show days ahead of opening.
The show that never opened was Molly’s Calling, also written and directed by Pip Rolls. In fact Pip brought the play to the point of performance twice more during 2020-2021, but two lockdowns and the continued risk of low audience numbers made it impossible to risk. Pip has now chosen a caretaker director, Val Anscombe, to lead on what we all hope will be a triumphant staging later on this year – we will keep you posted on dates, of course, and trust that all our stalwart supporters will return to enjoy a good story and a lot of laughs.
Unfortunately, due to the rising numbers of Covid cases among pupils and teachers in schools locally, we have had to postpone our planned March Saturday matinee, Pop-up Poetry. This is a joint Gage Players/Walton on the Hill Primary School event, for which children have a competition to write their own, or choose a favourite poem, and the best three from the top two classes will join the Gage on stage to read them out. A number of Gage members will also take part on stage, and currently we are hoping to put this event back in the calendar for September.
We are greatly looking forward to taking part in the Walton May Pageant on Saturday, 21st May. The pageant theme is ‘Our precious planet’ and as usual will begin with a costumed procession starting opposite the Blue Ball pub, up to the Pageant Green Arena in Howard Close, Walton on the Hill. The Gage will have its own stall and will also be running the tombola, so we look forward to welcoming old friends and making new ones at what is always a very popular day out for people, with or without their dogs, but generally with.
For now, we are hoping to stage some more one-off events, with people bringing their own choice of supper and enjoying the Gage’s additional catering. As we found on Saturday, these are very popular, and make a light-hearted and sociable evening out. We also have another full play in the planning, and one which we believe will be an instant draw for audiences, but more of that another time.
On 22nd March at 7.30pm we shall be holding the Gage AGM via Zoom, to review the period
gone by since the last one, and to outline forward plans. That is also the time when we ask members, old and new, to pay their subscriptions – £20 for full membership and £10 for juniors. The Zoom link will be sent round nearer the time, and if you are not already a member and would like to sign up to receive this, please visit our website:
www.thegageplayers.co.uk
I hope to welcome many of you to the AGM. Meanwhile, keep safe and stay well.
Very best wishes,
Gay
Gay Weeden, Chair, The Gage Players
Newsletter – December 2021
Dear Members and Friends,
Season’s greetings to you all. Hoping Christmas will be happy and that 2022 will be a much better year than the last!
It was with great disappointment that we had to cancel our November play, Molly’s Calling by Pip Rolls. We found that with the possible Covid risk, our ticket sales were too low to enable us to cover the cost of the production. It was a tough decision to make. In order to keep The Gage alive we need our performances need to do a bit better than break even – and of course to enjoy large audiences – but we couldn’t do anything like that this time.
However, undaunted and with increased enthusiasm, we plan to go ahead with a February 2022 evening of rehearsed play readings, a collection of short comedies written by Pip Rolls entitled What Really Happened. These are hilarious tales re-arranging the course of historical events with amazing outcomes! A fun evening to be enjoyed when all the Christmas and New Year festivities are over. There is nothing like live theatre to lift the spirits and we are looking forward to entertaining you during the drab winter days.
The evening will begin at 7.00 pm with a fish and chip supper (and vegetarian option), followed by three short plays – The Pyramids of Giza, The Battle of Hastings and The Reformation – then an interval when coffee/tea and cakes will be served, followed by two more short plays (The Battle of Waterloo and Giants of Science), with the evening finishing at about 10.00 pm. Please bring your own wine or beer or drinks of choice and glasses will be provided. The date is 5th February, the time 7.00pm and the place The Riddell Hall in Walton on the Hill. Food booking information will be circulated nearer the time. Do come along to support us and to enjoy laughing and rolling in the aisles!
In common with professional theatres and other indoor venues, following current Covid regulations, we will ask our audience members to wear a mask when not eating or drinking, unless they are exempt.
Because our social Zoom evenings of poems and short plays were so successful we thought it would be a good idea to make a programme of them for a matinee – a completely new and different kind of event for us, and one which will involve children too. The head of the junior school where we now rehearse has agreed to hold a poetry ‘competition’ for the children of the top two classes, to present a reading of their chosen poem and even perhaps to write their own. Those who do really well will perform on stage with The Gage Players company, in between our members reading poems or presenting short sketches. The matinee will take place on the afternoon of Saturday, 12th March. There will be an interval for afternoon tea, and a presentation of small gifts with a certificate for all those children taking part. If this proves a success, matinees may become a regular feature for us, so please come along and give all of us your support – do put the date in your diary now.
Our planned spring 2022 production in April is Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders by Derek Webb, directed by Christopher Slater. The performance dates for your diary are 28th, 29th and 30th April. The audition notice has gone out and is also on our web site, with audition dates in January plus contact information for Chris; rehearsals will start on Monday, 7th February, with Wednesdays and Mondays thereafter. This is a comedy thriller with a twist in its tale, so do step forward to audition for one of the great characters on offer, and put the playdates in your diary.
Looking further ahead, we will take part in the Walton May Pageant, but will send more details on that nearer the time, as well as for other social events during the late spring/early summer, and early autumn.
We plan to have our winter production next year on 24th, 25th and 26th November, 2022. The choice of play has yet to be decided, but please make a note of the performance dates in your diary.
We are looking forward with optimism to all the events planned for 2022, and won’t allow this variant of Covid to get us down!
I look forward to seeing you at our supper evening production on 5th February and wish you all a Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year!
Merry Christmas and good wishes,
Gay
Gay Weeden
Chair, The Gage Players