Leckhampton Players
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The Leckhampton Players is an amateur dramatics company based in Leckhampton
, near Cheltenham
. Founded in 1947, it performs regularly at Leckhampton Village Hall. 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.
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Leckhampton
Leckhampton is a district in south Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The area constitutes a civil parish and is part of the district of Cheltenham.-History:...
, near Cheltenham
Cheltenham
Cheltenham , also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, on the edge of the Cotswolds in the South-West region of England. It is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup, the main event of the Cheltenham Festival held...
. Founded in 1947, it performs regularly at Leckhampton Village Hall. Productions typically include a pantomime
Pantomime
Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...
in January/February each year, a musical show in May/June, and a play (most often comedy/farce) in October.
Recent Productions
- 2011 Old Time Music Hall
- 2011 Mother GooseMother GooseThe familiar figure of Mother Goose is an imaginary author of a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes which are often published as Mother Goose Rhymes. As a character, she appears in one "nursery rhyme". A Christmas pantomime called Mother Goose is often performed in the United Kingdom...
- 2010 S(w)inging the 60's
- 2010 Dry RotDry Rot (film)Dry Rot is a 1956 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix, Peggy Mount and Sid James.The story is an adaptation of a 1954 farce by John Roy Chapman who also wrote the screenplay, in which the sketchy story plays second fiddle to the quick-paced action and...
- 2010 Dick Whittington
- 2009 Hello & Goodbye
- 2009 Viva Mexico
- 2009 Raise the Roof (charity fundraising concert)
- 2009 The Wizard of OzThe Wizard of Oz (adaptations)The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum, which has been adapted into several different works, the most famous being the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland...
- 2008 Kindly Keep It Covered
- 2008 From Stage to Screen
- 2008 Ali BabaAli BabaAli Baba is a fictional character from medieval Arabic literature. He is described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves...
and the Forty Thieves
- 2007 Murder in Play
- 2007 Murder at the Music Hall
- 2007 FrankensteinFrankensteinFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...
- The Panto
- 2006 Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime
- 2006 Wild Wild Women
- 2006 CinderellaCinderella"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...
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