Both the former Grenoside Players & Birley Carr Methodist Musical & Dramatic Society have been presenting plays for over 60 years. Grenoside & Birley Carr Players will present one play in November 2010 and will seek to present additional plays or events at other times inthe year when approriate. Members generally direct plays which they have a particular liking for the group. When a
theatre group is offered a royalty-free play "Murder Most Foul" from new
playwright Phyllis Montague, the group welcome the chance to put the
theatre back into the black for the first time in years. The group tries
desperately to put on the play, amid all kinds of maddening
interference from its authoress, who keeps revising the script until
almost opening night. During the actual performance anything that can go
wrong does. At the curtain call Phyllis decides to give a speech on the
state of the modern theatre and what befalls her is the madcap climax
to this hilarious romp.Our last production in November 2011 was Rick Abbott's play entitled 'Play On' . The next production for May 2012 is presently under active consideration. New members for this production would be welcomed. RECENT PRODCTIONS Tony & Julie Wood directed 'Cards on the table' in November 2010. It was adapted by Leslie
Darbon from Agatha Christie's novel of the same name. Mr Shaitana is a strange and wealthy collector of
snuff boxes and other objets d'art. One
evening he invitds two specialists, Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard and
Mrs Oliver the crime novelist, to a dinner party to view his "special"
collection - a group of four people who have
committed murder and got away with it. As this group play bridge after dinner,
Mr Shaitana is daringly murdered and the killer had to be one of those present at the party. Battle sets out to
solve the crime aided by the eager Mrs Oliver. There were many red herrings,
skeletons in the cupboard and more deaths
before Battle could lay his "cards on the table". In November 2009, Vivien Stuart directed 'Comfort & Joy' a play by Mike Harding. It's christmas, relatives you hardly ever see arrive at your house for the festivities. No-one receives an appropriate present, cullinary disasters abound & long buried resentments rear their ugly heads as the alchohol flows. Sounds familiar does it not? This typical Mike Harding comedy was very well received by audiences significantly higher in numbers than usual. In October 2009, Caroline Oakley directed 'And then there were none' a thriller by Agatha Christie. Ten people are invited by a mysterious stranger to stay on a remote island off the Devon coast. None know the stranger and it soon becomes clear that they have been invited under false pretences. Then they start to be murdered one by one by means defined in a nursery rhyme. But who is the murderer...? Again, a very well supported play, this being the last presentation to take place at Birley Carr Chapel.
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