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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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Dick Whittington – 2026

2025 An Award Winning Year!

‘Allo ‘Allo 2 – The Camembert Caper

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2025 An Award Winning Year!

A huge congratulations to the following St Peter players actors and actresses, what a fantastic achievement. We are so lucky to have such a talented bunch of people, albeit, acting, lighting, sound, choreography, set building, costumes the list goes on! A huge congratulations to everybody involved. 2026 District Winners & Nominations The Pat Redhead Drama Award for Best Production of

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Blackadder II

Sixty years after the demise of Prince Edmund Plantagenet, Queen Elizabeth I, who’s as insane as her ancestors, is England’s current leader. Seductive, easy-to-impress, spoiled, and always seeking a husband, “Queenie” has a leading courtier: Lord Edmund Blackaddder…. Review by Noda Show pictures Audience Comments “A huge well done to everyone involved in Blackadder. Being a huge fan of the

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26 October 2024

Jack and the Beanstalk

By Ben Crocker To win the princess’s affections, Jack must defeat Giant Blunderbore, terror of the village. Meet also Simple Simon, Daisy the Cow, Dame Trot, fairies and a host of other traditional fairy tale characters. This colourful and spectacular show will once again have lots of comedy, slapstick, a large cast, plenty of music and fun. It is ideal

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25 December 2023

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling’s beloved tale of family, belonging and identity has been reimagined in this acclaimed adaptation by Jessica Swale, with original songs by Joe Stilgoe. The Jungle Book tells the story of Mowgli, the man-cub who is raised by wolves. With a little help from his animal friends – including Bagheera the panther, Baloo the bear, and Kaa the python

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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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21 December 2022

Treasure Island

Long John Silver may be a dastardly villain, but he’s reckoned without the Ladies of the Smuggler’s Cove Women’s Institute! This is Ben’s largest cast pantomime and a madcap, laugh a minute pirate adventure story from start to finish! Review by Noda Society: St Peter PlayersProduction: Treasure IslandDate: 9th December 2023Report By: Judith Watsham Thank you for inviting me to your 2022 Pantomime, a

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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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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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5 December 2020

Seussical the Musical

A musical perfect for the whole family, Seussical takes us into the world of Dr. Seuss, where we revisit beloved characters including The Cat in the Hat, Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie, and JoJo. The Cat in the Hat guides us into The Jungle of Nool where we see Horton, the kind hearted elephant who discovers a speck of dust

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29 November 2018

Dick Whittington

The story of Dick & his Cat provides the best animal part of them all – everyone falls in love with Tommy the Cat! This pantomime has real charm as well as plenty of knockabout comedy. There is lots of fun for the Chorus and some brilliant verse for King Rat. Easy to stage but with plenty of opportunity for

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