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Welcome to the St Peter Players blog, where you can keep up with everything happening both on and off the stage.

From announcements about our next productions and rehearsal updates to cast news, events, theatre stories and everything in between, this is where we’ll share the latest from the Players.

So grab your programme, take your seat and keep up with the latest news from St Peter Players.

There’s always something happening behind the scenes!

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16 December 2025

An Evening with Gary Lineker

The action takes place against the backdrop of the 1990 Football World Cup semi-final, between England and West Germany, which is taking place in Italy while Monica and Bill are on holiday in Ibiza. Bill desperately wants to watch the match; Monica wants to talk about their relationship. Arthur Smith and Chris England acclaimed stage play An Evening with Gary

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30 January 2024

The Vicar of Dibley

There’s a new vicar and a big wedding coming to Dibley! The St Peter Players are bringing this much loved comedy to the stage. A two act production including all your favourite characters from the hit TV show. Relive the moment of Geraldine Granger’s arrival as Dibley’s first women Vicar and her first encounter with its insane residents. View our

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Anniversary Revue

Welcome to the 75th Anniversary Revue by the St Peter Players. The St Peter Players began life in 1948 as the Dorothy Atwell Players. Dorothy was a foundermember of this group and produced the first few productions herself. The first of these was“Three in a Room” and it took to the stage in the old Kings Hall in Hampden Road,

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Calendar Girls

The death of a much loved husband prompts a group of ordinary women in a small Yorkshire Women’s Institute to do an extraordinary thing. Blasting away all preconceptions of what it is to be in a women’s institute, they decide to do an artistic nude calendar to raise money for charity. Upturning preconceptions is a dangerous business and none of

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A Bunch of Amateurs

Keen to boost his flagging career, fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steele arrives in England to play King Lear in Stratford – only to find that this is not the birthplace of the Bard, but a sleepy Suffolk village. And instead of Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench, the cast are a bunch of amateurs trying to save their theatre

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Caught in the Net

The sequel to Run for Your Wife finds the bigamist taxi driver John Smith still keeping his two families in different parts of London, both happy and blissfully unaware of each other. However, his teenage children, a girl from one family and a boy from the other, have met on the Internet and are anxious to meet in person since they have

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Sandcastles

An Englishman’s home is his sand castle. Stan and Bernice Billet and William and Margaret Patterson have been taking their holidays in the same resort for years. They don’t exactly rule the waves but they have turned the area around their beach huts into a cozy little fiefdom. Sancastles Review by Noda Society: St Peter PlayersProduction: SandcastlesDate: 22 March 2018Report

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8 December 2017

The Railway Children

Set in and around a country railway station at the turn of the twentiethcentury, the plight of the railway children grappling with their newenvironment is imaginatively brought to life for a modern audience whilelosing nothing of the original spirit of humour, tension, adventure andthe final triumph of good over evil. The Railway Children Review by Noda Society: St Peter PlayersProduction:

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The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

A timid and brilliant young woman, Little Voice has a hidden talent – she can sing like the greatest divas of the 20th Century. Living a lonely life in a northern town, all she wants is to be safe in her room with her records. No chance with mother Mari on the rampage – she’s after booze, a man, a

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12 December 2015

The Snow Queen

One of the most beautiful of all fairy tales, the timeless appeal of The Snow Queen lies in its persuading us that life is truly magical. Andersen’s wonderful language surfaces in Grandma’s description of the Snow Queen—”On winter nights when we are asleep she flies silently through the streets and alleyways. Sometimes she stops to look through a window, and when you

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