Our next production is 'Allo! 'Allo! - 27th to 30th October. Book now!
News and Diary
Dates for your Diary - 2010
| Wednesday 16th June | Adel
Players AGM - 7.45pm Eddie Isle room (members only) |
| Friday 18th June | Annual
Dinner - 7.30pm Venue to be confirmed (members and their guests) |
| Wednesday 23rd and Friday 25th June | Casting
- for first play of 2010/11 season 'Allo!
'Allo! - 7.45pm Walter Armstrong room (members and potential
members) |
| Saturday 10th July | Wharfedale
Festival of Theatre Awards Evening - 5.30pm St Mary's School
(members and guests) |
| Wednesday 18th August | First rehearsal -
for 'Allo! 'Allo! - 7.45pm Eddie Isle room |
Monday 13th September
| Play reading - see Trips & Readings - 7.45pm Gladys Tetley Room, Adel Memorial Hall (members and potential members welcome)
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Monday 11th October
| Play
reading - see Trips
& Readings - 7.45pm Gladys Tetley Room, Adel Memorial Hall
(members and potential members welcome) |
Wed 27th October to Sat 30th October
| Performances - 'Allo! 'Allo' - see Future Plays
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Four Wharfedale Festival of Theatre Awards for The Cherry Orchard
Saturday 10th July saw thirty amateur dramatics groups coming together to celebrate local amdram. Following a tasty buffet and a presentation of photographs from the year's festival entries, Chair Malcolm Pinder proceeded to present the many well-deserved awards. There were no luvvie-darling speeches (fortunately) but plenty of nice frocks and a lot of celebrating and applause. Adel Players were delighted to receive four awards for our 2009-10 festival entry
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov:- Best Newcomer - Helen Duce (Anya)
- Best Supporting Actor (tied) - Bernard Riley (Firs)
- Runner-up Best Supporting Actress - Claire Lipman (Varya)
- The Telegraph & Argus Trophy for the accomplished performance and imaginative staging of a challenging play - Adel Players
Congratulations to all individual award winners and to the entire cast and crew for these fab achievements!
Click on pictures below to enlarge.
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Helen Duce - Best Newcomer
| Bernard Riley - Best Supporting Actor
| Chair Dianne Newby with The Telegraph and Argus Trophy |
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| Wharfedale Festival of Theatre Chair - Malcolm Pinder | The Adel Players table | Dianne wonders if the trophy cup might make a useful piece of costume for forthcoming production 'Allo! 'Allo!
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Eileen Routledge
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| Long time active member and dear friend to all Eileen Routledge sadly passed away in February 2010 after much illness, during which she showed great courage and a never-faltering continued compassion for Adel Players and all her friends within the group. She will be greatly missed and forever loved. Our thoughts are with her family. We will each cherish our memories of this dear lady. |
Please be seated...
Our most exciting addition to the Adel Players' performances are the very fine new chairs that we have been so kindly given by an anonymous donor within the Adel Memorial Association. We now have 168 beautiful padded seats to replace our less elegant plastic chairs. Our very sincere thanks for this wonderful gift. Now we can truly say to our audience, "if you are sitting comfortably, we shall begin..."!
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We hope you are enjoying browsing the pages of our website for current news, past memories and future plans, whether you are a member of Adel Players, a member of the audience or a prospective member of either. Adel Players is thriving with a loyal audience and increasing interest and a rise in membership. We hope that the website will help inform and entertain potential members, our audiences and members alike. If you have any feedback about the website or would like to see anything else here please contact Claire at webmaster@adel-players.org.uk. All contributions, whether written memories, cuttings and particularly photographs from past productions and social events are always very welcome!
