Ottershaw Players

Dear Players

Its farrago time again.

Read through and Auditions will be held at Brook Hall at 7.45 pm on Sunday 12^th Jan.

Rehearsals will be held on: Tuesdays and Sundays from then on.

Performances will be held on:

28^th Feb and 1^st March at Chobham Club

And

6^th 7^TH and 8^th March at Brook Hall

I look forward to seeing you on the 12^th

Best

Very well done to writer Graham Collier (aka Luffy McTuggle) and the whole Stay’d For team at the Spelthorne and Runnymeade Drama Festival last night.  After a very positive adjudication on the final night of the festival, up against stiff competition (6 new plays having been entered) Ottershaw Players came away with the “Best New Play” trophy.  They also received nominations for Stage Presentation and Technical Merit which was a great achievement and excellent follow up to the previous weeks’ success at Woking Drama Festival.

Congratulations also go to Graham for a fantastic acting performance for RDG (who won the festival) as he won the Best Actor Trophy.

Festival season has started this week for Ottershaw Players, so please come along and support our entry, Stay’d For, written and directed by Graham Collier.

Performances are as follows:

Woking Drama Festival: Friday October 12th 2013, 7.30pm, price £8, venue Rhoda McGaw Theatre, Woking

Tickets are still available from Brenda (b.midwinter123@btinternet.com), otherwise please contact Chris Moore for tickets (01932 562762)

Spelthorne and Runnymede Festival: Saturday October 26th, 6.30pm, venue Riverside Arts Centre, Lower Sunbury

Ticket info TBC

Made Glorious Summer, written and directed by Graham Collier, won Best New Play and the script was put forward in 2011 by the Spelthorne & Runnymede adjudicator (Mike Kaiser) for the National George Taylor Memorial Award 2011/2012.  The judging process has taken some time, but we are very pleased to announce that the script was awarded 3rd place.

There were 3 judges, here is an exerpt from some of their comments:

“It is full of vigour and presence, and the author/adaptor has chosen cleverly.  The characters are lifted off the page and become real and huge.  We are sucked into this story and hardly dare breathe as we watch the entrapment of Ethan unfold.”

Many congratulations to Graham, a great result especially for his first play!

Please come and support Graham’s second play “Stay’d For”, which is currently in rehearsals for the October Festival season.

At Woking Drama Festival, it will be performed on Friday October 11th, at 7pm and Spelthorne & Runymeade Festival will be performed on Saturday October 25th, at 7pm

Tickets for our 50th year celebratory Summer Show Calendar Girls are on sale.  Details below:

When: Wednesday July 24th to Saturday July 27th  2013, 7.30pm (Friday tickets very limited)

Where: Brook Hall, Ottershaw

Price:  £12 (£10 concessions)  There will be a bar available each night

Contact: email: tickets@ottershawplayers.co.uk or telephone 01932 241341

Online:  To buy online  on our secure site, please click online tickets

Please note our email address has changed from previous shows, however if you do email the old address, it will get answered

Please come and support Ottershaw Players in this our 211th production in our 50th year.  We are planning a book revealing the history of The Players, filled with photographs and information of our history.  This will available for purchase and we hope it will spark fond memories for our friends past and present.