Past Performances
Past Performances April 2022
39 Steps
30th October-2nd November 2019
Railway Children
10th-13th April 2019
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Peter Pan
4th-7th April 2018
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Allo Allo
15th-18th November 2017
Daisy Pulls it Off
26th-29th April 2017
Ghost Writer
16th-19th November 2016
Jack and The Beanstalk
6th-9th April 2016
Private Lives
2nd-5th September 2015
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“Habeas Corpus”
15th - 18th April 2015
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“Oh What A Lovely War”
5th, 6th, 7th & 8th November 2014
It's Murder Out There
It’s a dangerous stage out there. Since Dulverton Player Richard Hall conceived his original “Murder at the Wedding” and staged it at All Saints’ Church, the corpses have been piling up.
Last autumn a sell-out audience dodged the bullets at the “Shooting Party”. In March the Players were invited to beautiful Knapp House at East Anstey for an evening of murderous mayhem in support of the Pre-School. They must have minded their p’s and q’s as they have been invited back to die all over again next spring.
Although Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers may be spinning in their graves, it’s not difficult to see the attraction of a mystery evening. The audience is able to enjoy both the fun of solving a whodunit and the pleasure of good food and wine in good company.
Actors like them too. The script is minimal, and so it’s a great chance for uninhibited character acting without the hard work of learning a part.
Sadly, Richard Hall is no longer with the Players after moving back to Southampton. Tickets for “Murder at the Funeral” rushed out of the door of the Dulverton Post Office for this year’s blood-stained offering on September 13th.
Creator Charlie Blanning promised that, “Family and friends gather to pay their last respects - if they can be called that – to the deceased. Eulogies are declaimed but around the coffin malicious gossip eddies and swirls. Everyone wants to know what is in the will. But amongst the sandwiches and bridge rolls, suddenly there’s another corpse. Will bumbling and bungling Detective Inspector De’Ath solve the crime, or will the audience have to do it for him?”
As Inspector De’Ath is played by Players’ Chairman, Les Silverlock, we all know at least the answer to that one. What next? “Murder at the Christening?”
MURDER AT THE FUNERAL CAST
ARTHUR TOMBS, 14TH DUKE OF GRIMREAPER Simon Bartlett
MAUD TOMBS, DUCHESS OF GRIMREAPER Anne Ansell
LADY LAETITIA TOMBS, THEIR DAUGHTER Claire Govier
SIR CEDRIC “SEEDY” CRYPT Roger Hodgson
LADY CYNTHIA CRYPT Heather Hodgson
MISS DAPHNE CRYPT, THEIR DAUGHTER Kate Ansell
MISS CELIA CORPSE, LAETITIA’S FRIEND Debbie Wright
MISS SYBIL SNOOP, A JOURNALIST Tamsin Blackmore
EUSTACE FFATAL-SMASH, A RACING DRIVER Charlie Blanning
DOOM, A HOUSEKEEPER Ginny Brown
THE REVEREND SKULL Chris Dubery
ETHEL EPITAPH, A SOLICITOR’S CLERK Olga Owen
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR DE’ATH Les Silverlock
DETECTIVE SERGEANT STIFF Cynthia Sharpe
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Past Performances
“The Shooting Party”, a Murder Mystery
20th September 2013
“The Importance of Being Earnest”
25th, 26th, & 27th July
The Three Effs
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Calendar Girls
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Cinderella
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An Inspector Calls
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Black Comedy
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Murder At the Marriage
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Blue Remembered Hills
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Thanks for the Music
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