Send A.D.S. - An Evening of One Act Plays - March 14th - 16th - Lancaster Hall, Send

SADS are working hard towards their Spring production - 2 One-Act Plays which will run from 14th - 16th March at the Lancaster Hall in Send. BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW!!!

Runnymede Drama Group - Nell Gwyn by Jessica Swale - Rhoda McGaw Theatre - 29th & 30th November and 1st December 2018

Get your tickets now for Runnymede Drama Group’s next production!

On at the Rhoda McGaw Theatre from 29th November to 1st December @ 7:45pm

Get your tickets from the RDG Box Office: 01784 240068 or the ATG Box Office: 0844 871 7645

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - Choreographer & 'Dee Moon' - Emma Neumann

NAME: Emma Neumann

CHARACTER: Dee Moon

BY DAY I.....work as a Teaching Assistant in KS1 and KS2. I also teach dance to the littlies too.

BY NIGHT I.....like to sleep... 

FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE SHOW AND WHY? Wipe out!  Brilliant dance to open the show with!!

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: Grease,  Oliver,  Annie, Wizard of Oz,  Me and my girl,  42nd street,  Anything Goes,  Copacobana,  Carousel. 

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARASSING MOMENT ON STAGE: Realisizing I was wearing shorts under my unitard which were very very  visible! just as the curtains were about to go up.  I had no other choice but to quickly strip down to take them off and make it to my starting position ... I made it within seconds! 

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - 'Cookie' - Akhil Gowrinath

NAME: Akhil Gowrinath

CHARACTER: Cookie

BY DAY I.....am a tax advisor for Unilever. Cookie by day is the ship's cook, however, he seems to eat more than he serves!

BY NIGHT I.....sing, act, dance, sleep, eat. Also, fight crime as a masked vigilante.

FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE SHOW AND WHY? She's not there...it's a lot of fun to sing and full of angst!

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: To name a few, Jamie (The Last 5 Years), Eddie (Made in Dagenham), Man 1 (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change), Boland (Dogfight), Mr Cladwell (Urinetown), Seaweed (Hairspray).

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARRASSING MOMENT ON STAGE: Embarrassing moment - probably having to whip myself in Sweeney Todd while topless...it was pretty memorable too!

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - 'Holly Mercury' - Margaret Baldwin

NAME: Margaret Baldwin

CHARACTER: Holly Mercury

BY DAY I.....work as a beauty therapist, performing arts coach and physio therapy assistant (so not to busy during the day lol)

BY NIGHT I.....dance, rifle shoot and rehearse, I practice until my joints hurt and feet bleed (lovely I know)

BY MIDNIGHT I.....protect the galaxy from the scum of the universe with my ragtag team of outlaws

FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE SHOW AND WHY? Great Balls of Fire and Monster Mash; GBoF is fun and energetic with lots of dancing. MM is just a fabulous song

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: Cinderella, Aladdin, Snow White, 3 Gang Shows, WDS Resonating Happiness, WDS Joining Forces, BBCs Pasha Kovalev Dance Tour 4 times, Dance Tour around IOW and Germany. TV on Soldier Soldier. Currently rehearsing Legally Blonde.

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARRASSING MOMENT ON STAGE: Being told I have so much energy, passion and looking like I have such a good time that they want to be me during the last dance we did with Pasha.

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - 'Bosun' - Fred Pollard

NAME: Fred Pollard

CHARACTER: Bosun Arras (The real man in charge)

BY DAY I.....am a primary school teacher.

BY NIGHT I.....lead an Explorer Scout Unit in Knaphill, sing in a choir, run a dungeons and dragons campaign, play video games and watch an inordinate amount of (good) TV.

FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE SHOW AND WHY? Good Vibrations. The Beach Boys could do no wrong in my eyes.

SIGNATURE MOVE: Dramatic head turn (look out for it)

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: Rent, Cinderella, Sweeney Todd, Mother Goose & Urinetown

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/MOST EMBARASSING MOMENT ON STAGE: Letting the band vamp for about 30 bars before I realised it was my line in the Urinetown dress rehearsal has to be my most embarrassing. My favourite though would probably be singing ‘All The Single Ladies’ in the Compton Panto, Mother Goose, two years ago. I also made an excellent star in my Year 2 nativity.

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - Lauren Phelan - 'Lily Rocket'

NAME: Lauren Phelan

CHARACTER: Lily Rocket

BY DAY I.....create floral arrangements and help men get out of sticky situations with their other half’s by making them nice bouquets; and wait tables (that’s the boring part). 

BY NIGHT I.....dance and try my best to know what I’m doing. 

FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE SHOW AND WHY? Hey Mr Spaceman because I’d imagine myself singing it to persuade the captain of a ship to let me come with him on his adventures. 

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: Surrey Heath Guide and Gang shows, Guys and Dolls, Oliver!, Dance Tours in Germany and Isle of Wight, displays at Surrey Heath Show, Yateley May Fayre, Pasha Kovalev’s tour in Camberley, Rock Challenge Dance competition. 

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARRASSING MOMENT ON STAGE: my favourite moment would have to be when I was playing Harley in the 2015 Surrey Heath Gang show and we were doing a comedy chase scene and I had run and then go through the ‘security guards’ legs and part way through stand up and give her a piggy back of stage, which meant that pretty much every night I’d have a new ladder in my tights.

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - Kerry Braybrooke-Tidy - 'Lizzy Stardust'

NAME: Kerry Braybrooke-Tidy

CHARACTER: Lizzy Stardust

BY DAY I.....am a Zoo keeper at a local senior school assisting in the drama department for Key Stage 3 core drama and Year 9 one year LAMDA. I also coach hockey at Elite and run various activities. Whilst juggling all of that I am principal of a site in Sandhurst for Redz Performing Arts, teaching students from 3-16 years!

BY NIGHT I.....am a Disney Princess striving to achieve world peace and happiness.

FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE SHOW AND WHY? Tell her! It’s such an exciting song and such a pinnacle moment in the show where the plot begins to develop! And I throughly enjoy miming the words with deep and meaningful expressions!

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: Annie, Wizard of Oz, Many Karen Clarke Christmas shows! Pasha’s Strictly come dancing tour, dance show in Germany, dancing in Disney Paris twice (that was my favourite!)

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARRASSING MOMENT ON STAGE: Whilst preparing for a Dick Witington the Pantomime, our main character King Rat pulled out giving 24 hours notice before the show... I was then volunteered for the role and had 24 hours to learn the lines and everything else to go with it! The first act went swimmingly! However in the second act I accidentally said ‘Sh*t’ instead of Ship! The audience went silent! So I proceeded to correct my error and said ‘I meant ship!’ #awkward although I did have the audience in stitches when I corrected myself, after a long dramatic pause!

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - Sarah Hall - Navigation Officer

NAME: Sarah Hall

 CHARACTER: Navigational Officer

BY DAY I.....work in admin.

BY NIGHT I.....do wedmin as my sister is getting married a few week’s before the show and I’ve been organising her hen party and helping out with wedding prep. I also sing in a choir, play Dungeons and Dragons and have a penchant for board games.

FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE SHOW AND WHY? Monster Mash, it’s just so catchy!

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: West Side Story, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Aladdin, Sing On, Medea, A Birthday Party, The King of Spain’s Treasure and The Ugly Duckling are some of the highlights.

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARRASSING MOMENT STAGE: Some of my most memorable moments on stage are: 1) Being swung around in a trolley in Sparklespark while playing the character of Russell and praying I didn’t go flying off the stage. 2) Playing Nora in a scene from A Doll’s House when Torvald got the date wrong in his line, therefore making the whole scene irrelevant. He tried to recover it and we both spent the rest of the scene trying not to burst out laughing. 3) Having to scream hysterically for longer than 10 seconds in The Ugly Duckling while the rest of the cast tried not to dissolve into fits of giggles like they did everytime we rehearsed it. 4) Playing the accompaniment on stage to ’On My Own’ (from Les Mis) on the flute as the character of Lesser Vizzir/Mini Me (otherwise known as Iago) in Aladdin. Also in the same show, I had the same long speech to announce the entrance of the Grand Vizzir (otherwise known as Jafar) EVERY time he entered. These are my favourite lines from a show so far and a speech which I still remember word for word 18 years later.

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - Nicole Connell - Science Officer

NAME: Nicole Connell

CHARACTER: Science Officer

BY DAY I.....spend half of my week looking after my 2 year old Daughter, which involves trips to many different parks, Gymnastics, Swimming and watching A LOT of Frozen! The other half of my week is spent being a self employed virtual assistant, which mainly involves doing admin duties for people that don't have the time to do it themselves!

BY NIGHT I.....Co-run 'Simply Theatre' who are now in their 10th year and looking forward to kicking off their next production 'Sister Act'. I also sit on the Woking Drama Association committee as the Publicity Officer and we are now looking to start organising the 60th Woking Drama Festival. I am also part of the committee who are trying to re-launch Woking Youth Theatre. So as you can see, my 'spare' time is mostly taking up with LOTS of drama (the good kind).

FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE SHOW AND WHY? This is quite difficult because I have a few. I love listening to Wipeout because it's such a great tune but I love singing 'Go Now' especially with the wonderful backing vocals courtesy of the cast.

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: Little Shop of Horrors, Return to the Forbidden Planet, West Side Story, Oklahoma, Habeas Corpus, Into the Woods, The Hot Mikado, Grease, Me and My Girl, A Streetcar Named Desire and Salad Days, to name a few favourites.

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARRASSING MOMENT STAGE: My most recent favourite moment was being nominated for Best Actress at both Woking and Leatherhead Drama Festivals and scooping the Runner Up award for our entry at Woking. An hour long play, with just two characters is a LOT of lines to learn and I spent 75% of the play on hands and knees, so it felt well deserved. 

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - Matt Hough - Ariel

NAME: Matt Hough

CHARACTER: Ariel

BY DAY I.....make a half decent cappuccino working at a cafe in Godalming

BY NIGHT I.....listen to music, favourites include James Brown and Al Green. I also watch loads of sport as a Chelsea fanatic but i'm keeping silent about that with our current situation....Thank you FA Cup!

FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE SHOW AND WHY? She's not there! My man Ahkil kills it so make sure you don't miss that!

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: A Few Good Men, Les Miserables, Little Shop of Horrors, Rent, The Wiz, Spring Awakening, Urinetown and Grease to name but a few.

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARRASSING MOMENT STAGE: I'll have to say worst moment is and will continue to be my ability to put on any sort of jacket or T-shirt on stage, always amusing for audiences to see my struggles so who knows what will happen in this show!

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - Karlene Neumann - Miranda'

NAME: Karlene Neumann

CHARACTER: Miranda

BY DAY I..... am a lower school teacher. I spend the day singing songs about counting and writing!

BY NIGHT I.....do a lot of baking and spend time playing with the families three doggies!

FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE SHOW AND WHY? Great Balls of Fire! I love it because it reminds me of the dance moves to 'Tradegy' by Steps.

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: to many to name them all but a few more well known ones are Les Miserables, My Fair Lady and Smokey Joe's Cafe.

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARRASSING MOMENT STAGE: I get the feeling that my most memorable moment will be in Forbidden Planet because I am playing my husband's daughter and I get to kiss a close friend!

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - Richard Hall - Captain Tempest

NAME: Richard Hall

CHARACTER: Captain Tempest

BY DAY I..... run a business specialising in data and application integration. This means (because nobody ever seems to know) I spend my days playing with, sharing, moving, reshaping, analysing, inferring from.... other people's data. 

BY NIGHT I.....have recently spent my time banging my head against anything solid in frustration at the RTTFP words not going in. However this approach may change soon as all it seems to have achieved is for the already obfuscated dialogue to become even more unintelligible.

FAVOURITE SONG FROM THE SHOW AND WHY? Albatross. Because it is Fleetwood Mac. However I think The Chain might have been a better Mac song to shoehorn into the score.

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: Oklahoma, West Side Story, Chess, Little Shop of Horrors, Jesus Christ Superstar, Big and A Slice of Saturday Night are some of my favourites.

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARRASSING MOMENT STAGE: My favourite moment on stage was playing Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. I loved the whole thing. I had a much higher vocal range then, so couldn't do it again. My most memorable moment on stage was receiving the "baked bean award" with Woking Youth Theatre for accidentally replacing the word "call" with "come", when delivering the line "I shall call upon you again later" in Jane Eyre. The most embarrassing moment on stage has to be stripping to a thong in Girls Night Out. I'm still scarred by that.....as I imagine are many of the audience members.

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet' - Becky Parfree - Cutie Comet

NAME: Becky Parfree

CHARACTER: Cutie Comet

BY DAY I......Work in the Student Admin Department of a University (Cutie on the hand runs about ‘fixing’ the ship with her blow torch and getting into mischief with her friends)

BY NIGHT I.......Dance.... A Lot.

FAVOURITE SONG IN THE SHOW AND WHY? Teenager in Love - it’s all about the girl power!

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: Woking Dance Space ‘Joining Forces’, Pasha Kovalev’s tour at Camberley Theatre, Dance tours in Germany and the Isle of Wight

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARASSING MOMENT ON STAGE: Dancing Gangnam Style onstage with Pasha Kovalev from Strictly Come Dancing... surreal!

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

MEET THE CAST OF 'Return to the Forbidden Planet'- Helen Bracher - Crew

NAME: Helen ‘Brache’ Bracher

CHARACTER: Axel Orate

BY DAY I.............am a second officer, even though I should have been promoted to Navigation Officer, serving under Captain Tempest (oh I wish it were so ...) 

BY NIGHT I............frequent the bars that Captain Tempest doth visit. My main hobby is intergalactic quidditch. 

FAVOURITE SONG IN THE SHOW AND WHY? 'Yeh Yeh' I love the interaction between Bosun and Cookie. 

PAST SHOWS INCLUDE: Hot Mikado, Streetcar Named Desire, Grease, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Little Shop of Horrors, Into the Woods, Rent and Urinetown, all with Simply Theatre.

FAVOURITE/MOST MEMORABLE/EMBARRASSING MOMENT ON STAGE: I am always the consummate professional on stage. I have never gone on stage without my skirt on. Albeit I did have a fetching apron on!!

RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET IS ON AT THE RHODA MCGAW THEATRE FROM 28TH - 30TH JUNE AT 7:30PM WITH A SATURDAY MATINEE AT 2:30PM. CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS.

Pyrford Little Theatre - 'A Bunch of Amateurs' by Ian Hislop & Nick Newman - 24th - 28th May 2018 - Pyrford Village Hall

Keen to boost his flagging career, fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steel 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 from developers. Jefferson’s monstrous ego, vanity and insecurity are tested to the limit by the enthusiastic am-dram thespians. As acting worlds collide and Jefferson’s career implodes, he discovers some truths about himself – along with his inner Lear!

The Box Office is open for "A Bunch of Amateurs". Get your ticket now!
http://www.pyrfordlittletheatre.org.uk/BoxOffice.aspx

WAOS - 9 to 5 - Rhoda McGaw Theatre - 9th - 12th May 2018

9 to 5: The Musical is a musical based on the 1980 movie of the same name, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton.

The story is about three female secretaries who decide to get revenge on their tyrannical, sexist boss by abducting him and running the business themselves. The trio, one of whom has been passed over for promotion because she is a woman, spend a night together having drug-induced fantasies of killing the slave-driving chauvinist. One of them panics the following day when she suspects she really has poisoned the tyrant.

It is a highly comedic and “feel good” show performed by WAOS; a NODA-award winning musical theatre company.

Rhoda McGaw Theatre Woking from 8th - 12th May. Box Office 07765 006565 or waos.info/tickets or ATG tickets.

Runnymede Drama Group - 'People' by Alan Bennett - Riverhouse Barn - 11th-14th April 2018

The plumbing doesn't work, the cellar is flooded and there is a bath on the billiard table. Exactly how far will the eccentric Lady Dorothy go to save Stacpoole Manor? Will she invite complete strangers in to traipse through her home, picking over and commenting on her worldly belongings and family heritage? Perhaps she should sell off a few choice knick-knacks or heirlooms to make ends meet or hire out the old four poster bed to a dubious film crew? These are just a few of the many options considered in a bid to save the crumbling family pile in this funny and touching comedy by Alan Bennett.

TICKETS: £14 each from Riverhouse Box Office 01932 253354 boxoffice@riverhousebarn.co.uk, or via their website: www.riverhousebarn.co.uk Seating is limited so early booking is advised.