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Spring 1991
Farndale – Haunted Through Lounge by David McGillivray / Walter Zerlin Jnr
A typical Farndale Avenue comedy as the ladies of the W.I. ham their way through another disaster prone play. |
Autumn 1991
The Murder Room by Jack Sharkey
A murder mystery / farce. |  |
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Spring 1992
The Nutcracker Sweet by David Wood
A play for children of all ages! |  |
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Autumn 1992
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
A classic Oscar Wilde for the Players' 50th Anniversary! |
Autumn 1993
Visiting Hour / Last Tango in Little Grimley by David Tristram
A collection of one act plays performed in the round. |  |
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Spring 1994
Inspector Drake and the Time Machine by David Tristram
Inspector Drake and his supremely incompetent side kick Sergeant Plod solve a baffling mystery which catapaults them through space and time in this ludicrous, but hilarious, comedy.
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Autumn 1994
The House of Dracula by Martin Downing
A comedy horror with all the elements you might expect - werewolves, vampires, mummies, mad men and assorted members of the undead.
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Spring 1995
Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn
A collection of short interlinked plays, ranging from an attempted chat up in a dingy hotel bar, through the pretentious restaurant of “beef en coulis” and Cabernet Sauvignon, to the village fête marquee.
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Autumn 1995
Straight and Narrow by Jimmie Chin
Bob and Jeff are gay and trying to maintain their relationship amidst the emotional chaos of an English working-class family.
Bob's mother, Vera, believes that all would be well “if Bob could just find a nice girl and settle down” and seems to think that Bob and Jeff are just good mates who share the rent. One of Bob's sisters, Nona, obsessively cleans house to block out her distress at her husband, Arthur,leaving her for another woman. Only Lois, their other sister, and Bill, her husband, know the truth about Bob and Jeff's relationship.
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Spring 1996
Easy Stages/Don’t Blame it on the Boots by Nick Warburton
Two interlinked comedies centring on the backstage goings on in an amateur dramatics group.
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Spring 1996
Sir Rupert's Revenge by Mike Lightfoot and Paul Staines
An interactive whodunnit written by two of the Players and presented at the Allertonshire School. The audience formed teams and after watching the drama unfold, interrogated the suspects and then worked out who they thought was the guilty party!
An article in the local paper before the event said:
'Allertonshire School's favourite benefactor returns to his old haunting ground for a murder most foul.
Local industrialist Sir Rupert Nouveaux is attending the school's Murder and Mystery evening and has made the rather surprising announcement that he will be accompanied by all the members of his family.
The son of a cobbler, Sir Rupert left Allertonshire School, Northallerton in 1952, aged 16, to set up his own factory manufacturing Yorkshire Puddings. The rest as they say is history.
From humble beginnings, the business has grown into one of the largest Yorkshire Pudding manufacturers in the world, and is doing particularly well in the American market.
In 1983, Rupert Nouveaux was knighted for his services to export. There have been rumours over the last few months that Sir Rupert is thinking about retirement and that he may be about to make a significant donation to his old school.'
The stage was set for murder! |  |
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Autumn 1996
Happy Families by John Godber
A bittersweet reflection of working class family life set in a house in West Yorkshire in the 1960s and 1970s. The play tells the story of John, a young man on his graduation day, who looks back on the trials and tribulations he endured while growing up.
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Spring 1997
Life’s Like That
An evening of one act plays - 'Victor' and 'Unsung' by David Foxton and 'Bus Stop' by Shirley Rae. A joint entertainment with the junior group.
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Autumn 1997
Unoriginal Sin by David Tristram
Eve is twenty-four and never been kissed. Well, not properly. Bill is thirty-five, rich, alcoholic, and with the sex drive of an adolescent bull on steroids. Eve is engaged to Neville. Bill is married to Jenny. Jenny is having an affair with Jeremy, but she remains utterly devoted to her husband's cheque book. Miles is Bill's best friend. Or at least he was, before he discovered Bill's underpants hanging from the lightshade in his bedroom. Then there's Father Tomlin. At least he's taken a lifelong vow of celibacy. Or so his daughter claims. Original Sin? It seems there's nothing very original about it any more!
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Spring 1998
Something to remember You By by Jimmie Chin
A confused young man tries to disentangle reality from his own fictional world.
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Autumn 1998
Bouncers by John Godber
One night in the life of four doormen at a northern nightclub. A modern classic and one of our most successful productions.
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Spring 1999
Take Three
An evening of one act plays - 'Drinking Companions' by Alan Ayckbourn, 'A Jolly Sinister Jape' by Elliot Strange, and 'And go to Innisfree' by Jean Lennox Toddie. The last of these won the Allerton Players many awards at that year's local festivals.
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Summer 1999
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
The Youth section of the Players presented this colourful comedy.
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Autumn 1999
Shakers by John Godber
Four waitresses in a cocktail bar run the gauntlet of demanding customers and overwork, whilst dealing with their own problems in John Godber's comedy drama.
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Summer 2000
The Canterbury Tales
This adaptation of Chaucer's famous work was the Players' contribution to the Millenium celebrations during a week of historical events in Northallerton.
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Spring 2001
Holiday Snaps by Jim Sperinck
5 interlinked one-act plays around the theme of holidays.
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Autumn 2001
After September by Jimmie Chin
The teachers at a down at heel girls' school attempt to convince a Government Inspector that they should be allowed to stay open despite their failings. Will he be fooled? And just who has murdered the headmistress's dog?
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Autumn 2002
And a Nightingale Sang by C.P. Taylor
The Player's 60th Anniversary Production was a war time drama set in Tyneside which followed the lives of one Geordie family.
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Spring 2004
Respecting your Piers by Peter Quilter
Five women jointly inherit a derelict pleasure pier and learn to reconcile their differences whilst trying to restore it - with a little help from Kylie Minoghue!
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Autumn 2004
Albert Nobbs by Gordon Steel
'A Blithe Spirit for the working class' is how this play has been described. Albert Nobbs has retired from his job and is finding retirement less than satisfactory. His wife, Connie, is driven to distraction by his grumpiness, and it is only after she dies in a road accident and returns to haunt Albert that she gets him to change his ways.
This was the first performance of this play by an amateur group, and the first, and probably last, time the leading actor had worn only a thong in public!
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Spring 2005
Ghostwriter by David Tristram
Our Spring production was a comedy thriller. Edward is a playwright whose wife, an actress, died a year ago. On the anniversary of her death she returns to tell him that she was murdered, and to enlist his help in finding her murderer!
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Autumn 2005
Educating Rita by Willy Russell
The popular comedy drama by Liverpudlian playwright Willy Russell. Brash hairdresser Rita feels dissatisfied with her life and longs to know 'everything'. The play charts her quest to better herself through studying for an Open University degree in English Literature. Central to the story is the changing relationship between Rita and her tutor Frank, and it shows the joys and the pitfalls of discovering your true self.
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Spring 2006
Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime by David Tristram
Inspector Drake and his immeasurably stupid sidekick Sergeant Plod returned to solve a fiendishly complicated spoof murder mystery involving a warthog, the Pope, a lamppost and a microscopic mole! |  |
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November 2006
Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter
Originally a television play, set in a forest during the Second World War, this production follows seven children (played by adults) through a day playing amongst the trees. They squabble and fight, make friends and break them, and imitate their parents, while out in the big wide world their fathers are fighting for their lives. Even in the forest the children are not safe and by the end of the play they have lost their innocence, with devastating consequences.
The play was produced using the stage, the floor space and the areas beside the raked seating. The world's supply of pine cones was also used.
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April 2007
No Bed of Roses - 3 plays
The plays were 'The Allotment' by Gillian Plowman,'Bed among the Lentils' by Alan Bennett and 'Act 3 Scene 5' by Terry Ortwein.
'The Allotment'follows four women offenders carrying out their community service on an allotment. They all have secrets in their past lives but all find a haven among the vegetables, until a new probation officer comes along and makes them face their pasts. However, she too has something in her past she would rather forget...
'Bed among the Lentils' is one of Alan Bennett's acclaimed series of Talking Heads. Susan, unhappily married to Geoffrey the vicar of St Michael and All Angels, finds her own ways of coping.
'Act 3 Scene 5' follows a group of students rehearsing Act 3 Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet. Through exploring the text they come to understand the scene and realise that it has a relevance to their own lives. |  |
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November 2007
Art by Yasmina Reza
How would you feel if a close friend spent a fortune on a piece of modern art which you considered to be complete rubbish? Would you lie and say you liked it? Or would you tell him what you really thought?
‘Art’ is a modern comedy which looks at what happens when Serge buys a painting— a pure white canvas. Pure white apart from a couple of white diagonal stripes! Marc is outraged by his friend’s stupidity and Yvan ties himself in knots trying to agree with everyone. Their relationship is tested to breaking point and beyond!
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Spring 2008
I'll be back before midnight! by Peter Colley
Gregg takes his wife Jan to the countryside to recover from her nervous breakdown, but it isn't long before his sister appears to disturb their peace. Then there's George, the kindly if slightly demented farmer. Not to mention the ghosts....and the blood. Our presentation of this award winning thriller with its twists and turns certainly kept the audience on the edges of their seats! |  |
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