by admin | Jan 6, 2017 | Play Reading Evenings
Come and join us for a social evening of wonder and wizardry as we explore on Jan 10th Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the eighth story in the series, that premiered on the stage last summer. “Sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected...
by admin | Nov 20, 2016 | Reviews
Bombshells…….A Roaring Success Packed audiences were treated to a gem of a performance by Penrith Players last week (Nov 10th-12th 2016). Billed ‘as observant as anything in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads’ this it had a lot to live up to. Staged in the intimate...
by admin | Nov 3, 2016 | Castings
“YOU got to concentrate ain’t ya with two jobs,” says the hilarious Francis Henshall in Richard Bean’s One Man Two Guvnors — which is to be Penrith Player’s first show of 2017 next February, performed from 15th to 18th An English take on...
by admin | Oct 26, 2016 | Play Reading Evenings
Our next play reading and social evening is planned for Tuesday 6 December at 7.30 in the Playhouse Bar. There will be a reading of Our Town by Thornton Wilder, a nostalgic recreation of a New England town in the first part of the 20th century. It has some beautiful...
by admin | Oct 12, 2016 | News, Play Reading Evenings
Further to our new play reading social evenings this months will run on Oct 25th. Everyone is welcome including non-members, and it will take place in the theatre bar, starting at 7.30pm. Come along at any time during the evening and join in reading, just listen or...
by admin | Sep 4, 2016 | Castings
“Arcadia”, running 19th-22nd Oct, still has one part unfilled – that of the implacable Jellaby, the butler of the house. He appears a few times throughout the play, never with too many lines. Rehearsals not too onerous! If you are interested then...
by admin | Sep 4, 2016 | News
Rehearsals are under way for our next production in October, Tom Stoppard’s excellent play Arcadia which is about, among other things, romantic gardens, forgotten duels, lost poets, dwarf dahlias and the effect of sex on mathematically predictable events! ...
by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Castings
“A zany, ‘improbable’ comedy of murder, chocolate and a night on the Embankment in 1890s London”, “still rolling in the aisles, and deservedly so”….. Our end-of-November production is an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s...
by admin | Aug 30, 2016 | Play Reading Evenings
I say, you fellows! Join us at the Playhouse for a thoroughly enjoyable reading of A.A. Milne’s spirited and fun play, “Toad of Toad Hall”. With a whole host of wacky characters to play (naïve Mole, cultured Ratty, grumpy old Badger, madcap Toad,...
by admin | Jul 14, 2016 | Castings
Actors for a 30min low-budget independent short film, Olde Habits, shooting in Penrith this summer. 2 lead roles, 2 support roles. Roles are unpaid but the final product is intended for national festival submission. Synopsis: Jack messed up. He’s not quite an...
