Leckhampton Players Explained

The Leckhampton Players is an amateur dramatics company based in Leckhampton, near Cheltenham. Founded in 1947, it performs regularly at Leckhampton Village Hall.^[1] 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. The Players celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1997.

The Players won the Gloucestershire Drama Association^{[2] [3]} award for Best Pantomime in 2000, 2001 and 2006.^[4]

Historical Productions

• 1970 Puss in Boots^[5]
• Productions since 1975^[6]

Recent Productions

• 2011 Old Time Music Hall
• 2011 Mother Goose
• 2010 S(w)inging the 60's
• 2010 Dry Rot
• 2010 Dick Whittington
• 2009 Hello & Goodbye
• 2009 Viva Mexico
• 2009 Raise the Roof (charity fundraising concert)
• 2009 The Wizard of Oz
• 2008 Kindly Keep It Covered
• 2008 From Stage to Screen
• 2008 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
• 2007 Murder in Play
• 2007 Murder at the Music Hall
• 2007 Frankenstein - The Panto
• 2006 Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime
• 2006 Wild Wild Women
• 2006 Cinderella

External links

• Leckhampton Players

Notes and References

1. http://www.leckhamptonvillagehall.co.uk/index.html Leckhampton Village Hall
2. http://theatregloucestershire.net/gloucestershire-drama-association Gloucestershire Theatre - Gloucestershire Drama Association
3. http://www.glosdrama.com/ Gloucestershire Drama Association
4. http://www.leckhamptonplayers.com/aboutus.aspx Leckhampton Players historical information
5. Heasman, E (compiler), 1998, 'Images of England - Cheltenham', Tempus Publishing Limited, page 88 (part of The Archive Photographs series)
6. http://www.leckhamptonplayers.com/pastproductions.aspx Leckhampton Players Past Productions