Hampstead Players Explained

Hampstead Players
Formed:	1976
Location:	Hampstead, London, England
Homepage:	www.hampsteadplayers.org.uk
Genre:	Drama

The Hampstead Players are a notable amateur theatre group in north London, named after their base in Hampstead. It was founded in 1976. It produces three productions a year - spring, summer (usually Shakespeare) and autumn - in the parish church of St John-at-Hampstead. It also has a youth theatre wing, the Hampstead Players Youth Theatre (HPYT).

Productions

Year	Winter/Spring	Summer	Autumn	HPYT
1976		The Rise and fall of man	The Lark
1988			As you like it
1989			The Importance of being Earnest
1990			Murder in the Cathedral
1991			The Glass Slipper
1992			The Winslow Boy
1993			The Linden Tree
1994			Follow the Star
1995	1745 and All That		John Keats Lived Here
1996			Measure for Measure
1997			Racing Demon
1998			Lewis Carroll's Alice (A)
1999			The Tempest
2000			Inherit the Wind
2001		Hamlet	The Crucible
2002		Macbeth	Oliver!	Dreams of Anne Frank
2003		Richard III	All My Sons
2004		A Midsummer Night's Dream	The Mystery Plays (A)
2005		Shakespeare's Kings	Arcadia
2006	The Lark	Julius Caesar	A Tale of Two Cities (A)	Grimm Tales
2007	Paradise Lost (A)	Twelfth Night	The Caucasian Chalk Circle
2008		We Happy Few	Murder in the Cathedral
2009	Musica Sacra^[1]	The Merchant of Venice	The Sacred Flame
2010		Antony and Cleopatra	An Ideal Husband
2011		The Winter's Tale	Fiddler on the Roof
2012	Under Milk Wood	Waiting for Godot	A Woman of No Importance
2013	Arsenic and Old Lace	As You Like It	The Cherry Orchard
2014	The Way of the Cross	All's Well That Ends Well	The Man Born to Be King (A)
2015		Richard II	Pride and Prejudice (A)
2016	Dangerous Corner	The Alchemist	King Lear
2017		Pygmalion	Persuasion (A)
2018		The Bacchae	The Government Inspector
2019		Macbeth	The Sound Of Music
2021		A Midsummer Night's Dream	The Importance of being Earnest
2022	Jukebox Cafe	Much Ado About Nothing	Blithe Spirit
2023		Measure for Measure	My Fair Lady
2024		Romeo and Juliet	Uncle Vanya

(A) = Adaptation

External links

• Hampstead Players homepage

Notes and References

1. In collaboration with the church's choir, a dramatic and musical presentation of the history of Hampstead, its church and church choir, featuring Samuel Pepys, Henry Vane, Pelham Humfrey and Siegfried Sassoon and music by (among others) Humfrey, Henry Purcell, John Dunstable, and Edward Elgar.