Tickets on Sale for Summer Production
Please add the date 21st or 22nd July to your diaries and come and see our very funny plays. This will be held at Brook Hall, Ottershaw from 7.30pm
Please add the date 21st or 22nd July to your diaries and come and see our very funny plays. This will be held at Brook Hall, Ottershaw from 7.30pm
We are holding a read through of two plays for this year’s summer supper show on Wednesday 11th April at Hare Hill Club, 8pm. Everyone is welcome so please come along for a sociable evening.
We will be reading;
CCTV by Derek Webb
Synopsis
In the security control room of The Oaks shopping centre, Rich is coming on duty for the night shift, relieving Alex and Jane, two other guards. Alex is decidedly non-pc with a penchant for zooming in the CCTV cameras onto unsuspecting women shoppers. Rich is far more conformist and rather pedantic in his attitudes, but he has obviously learnt to put up with Alex’s childish behaviour. Jane has a penchant for shopping with a capital S and is a bright, rather feisty addition to the security team.
It is, it seems a ordinary evening at The Oaks – until the arrival of Keith, a robber of quite breathtaking incompetence, intent on robbing the shopping centre.
The dull routine of life in a security office is blown away with the arrival of Keith who has a stocking over his head and a gun in the back of the apologetic Jane The horror of the situation is somewhat diluted by the fact that neither Rich nor Alex can make out a single word that Keith is saying, due to the afore-mentioned stocking. The humour comes thick and fast. Alex unwittingly tells Keith all he needs to know, while Rich insists that people adhere to the correct use of grammar whatever the circumstances.
Characters
(3m, 1f)
Alex: security guard, treats most things as a bit of a joke
Rich: security guard, treats things far more seriously
Jane: security guard, treats shopping with reverence
Keith: would-be robber, treats himself to whatever he can lay his hands on
Smalls Talk by Sue and Clive Read
Synopsis
Five ladies of different ages and backgrounds meet for a lingerie party with Dawn, the Lady Lace Representative. The atmosphere is cool until the hostess gets out her husband’s lethal pea-pod wine. Under its influence tongues are loosened as the ladies decide to give one of their dowdy colleagues a makeover in order to regain the affections of her errant husband.
Characters
(6f, 1m)
Rex: Husband of Linda, a sly wimp
Linda: Hostess – easy-going
Dawn: Lady Lace Demonstrator – wet but persistent
Tracy: Young next-door-neighbour – innocently tactless
Carol: Linda’s sister – cynical, hard-bitten, a laugh
Dot: Older work colleague, dour
Emma: Workmate – pathetic – suffering from loss of husband
Hope to see you on Wednesday 11th April at 8pm in Hare Hill Club
Ottershaw Players are proud to present their latest production, a very funny comedy by Devon Williamson:
How to Train Your Husband
Dates of performance are Thursday 7th, Friday 8th and Saturday 9th December.
Doors open at 7pm, performance starts 7.45pm
There will be a well stocked bar
Tickets are now available either via the Seaty booking website or via the booking line:
https://seaty.co.uk/httyh or telephone: 07562 396888
We really hope to see you there!
Hello All,
We are holding a read through next Wednesday (23rd) at the Castle pub in the conservatory at 8pm, do join us for a relaxed social evening.
We shall be reading ‘How To Train Your Husband’ by Devon Williamson. Its a very funny two act play for five women and two men.
Kate – the matriarch of the family, so successful at training her husband he’s become dull and boring
Sheryl – (Kate and Denis’ daughter). Her husband is having a ‘bro-mance’ with her daughter’s husband Wayne. Her husband training has hit a snag.
Jessica – (Sheryl’s daughter) newly married, very little progress in training her husband.
Denis – lives to now his lawns, fully trained by his wife Kate.
Gwen – one of the ‘weird sisters’, unmarried, desperate to train a man.
Trudy – the other ‘weird sister’ unmarried, desperate.
Pete – neighbour to Jessica, a carpenter.
We are presenting this play as an option for OP’s winter production, dates of performance 7th 8th and 9th December. Do join us, even if you are not available to be involved in the production, its a social evening, a good excuse for a get together and chit chat, plus all feedback is very welcome.
See you in the Castle conservatory at 8pm next Wednesday 23rd August
Tickets are on sale for our Summer Show, an entertaining evening of three hilarious one-act comedies served up with a fabulous buffet supper and licensed bar.
Changing Rooms by Jackie Carreira
Mum’s The Word by Damian Woods
Fidelity Farce by Gary Diamond
Performances are at Brook Hall, Ottershaw from the 21st – 22nd July, doors open 7pm, curtain up 7.30pm
Tickets £10 (incl supper)
Box Office: 07562 39688
Buy online: Click Summer Supper Plays 2017 for our secure online booking site.
Hope to see you all there!
The audition for the summer plays is scheduled for Wednesday 22nd March in the conservatory at the Castle pub from 7.30pm.
We will be reading three plays, see below.
If you can’t make that date but are keen to be involved please let me know asap, I can then decide if a second audition date would be beneficial.
The dates of the shows are Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd July and will follow a similar format to last summer with a buffet supper as part of the evening.
If you have yet to read the chosen plays they are all available to read in full on Lazy Bee Scripts website.
The plays;
Changing Rooms by Jackie Carreira
Maggie – senior shop assistant
Sophia – bride to be
Rosa – mother in law to be, of Greek origin
Jo – a single woman
Gemma – a fashion conscious young lady
Sam – Gemma’s boyfriend
Mum’s the Word by Damian Woods
David Richards
Janet Richards – his wife
Margaret – his annoying mother
Simon Orchard – a cheery next door neighbour
Sandra Orchard – his wife
Fidelity Farce by Gary Diamond
Vincent Donaldson – a middle aged businessman who is having an affair with the other characters
Mandy Phelps – Vincent’s attractive PA
Vanessa Donaldson – Vincent’s posh wife
Cindy – Vanessa’s attractive sister
Emma – a middle aged attractive woman
Richard – the hotel room service
There is plenty of opportunity for doubling however its very much a ‘the more the merrier’ situation. We had a great time last summer and the feedback to the format of the evenings was terrific so do join us and let’s make this summer even more successful.
Claire WA
TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
FOR BROOK HALL PERFORMANCES ON 2ND, 3RD AND 4TH MARCH 2017
This year’s effort will be (very, very loosely) based on the 1960’s TV hit show “The Avengers”. It’s a very funny script and should result in a hilarious evening’s entertainment. 60’s dress and Steed and Peel lookalikes very definitely encouraged!
Tickets are £15 to include supper – bring your own drinks and glasses as usual. Doors will open at 7pm.
Tickets are available by email tickets@ottershawplayers.co.uk or by ‘phone 01932 841363. Pay at the door with cash or cheque payable to “Ottershaw Players”
Food choices with orders please – fish and chips or chicken and mushroom pie and chips. Vegetarian option cheese and onion pie with chips.
TICKETS WILL SELL FAST – SO LET ME HAVE YOUR ORDERS ASAP – EARLY ORDERS BEST SEATED
FARRAGO IS AN ADULT SHOW AND NOT THEREFORE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR YOUNG ADULTS.
Tailor-made for Women, The Naked Truth is the hit comedy Play from Dave Simpson, the writer of the smash-hit comedy “Girls Night Out”. Set in a village hall pole dancing class, ‘The Naked Truth’ is a brilliantly funny bitter-sweet comedy about sisterhood.
It’s a women thing, as five very different women struggle hilariously to conquer pole dancing for an event to raise awareness and money for a breast cancer charity.
The Naked Truth is a poignant and uplifting comedy, a call to all women, and celebrating strength through adversity.
It’s a Show for women, about women, that men absolutely must see (if they dare!).
Performances are Dec 8th – Dec 10th, 7.45pm at Brook Hall, Ottershaw
Tickets are £10, available at https://seaty.co.uk/thenakedtruth
Box Office : 01932 841363 / tickets@ottershawplayers.co.uk
There is a licensed bar available.
Please note strobe lighting will be used during the performance and the production is not suitable for those under 16
Tickets are now available for our summer production of One Act plays:
Erica and Me by Alan Robinson, directed by Lianne Dempsey
Up The Garden Path by Barry Blaize, directed by Claire White-Aldworth
Both are comedy farces and there will be a ploughman’s buffet in between the plays and also a licensed bar for your enjoyment!
The show is at Brook Hall, Ottershaw from the 29th – 30th July, curtain up 7.45pm
Tickets £10 (incl supper)
Box Office: 01932 841363 (tickets@ottershawplayers.co.uk)
click here to buy tickets from our secure, online ticketing service.
Hope to see you all there!
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