Welcome to The Fellowship Players!
The Fellowship Players have been providing live theatre in Walsall since 1947 and are now into our 73rd season. We usually perform four plays a year at the Grange Playhouse, Broadway North, Walsall.
THIS SEASON’S PRODUCTIONS:
Due to the COVID19 outbreak, our 73rd season was cut short after two productions. Here are details of these productions:
OCTOBER 2019
This new adaptation of the play that inspired several movies, including ‘The Shop around the Corner’ starring Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart, is a warm and gentle comedy that follows the tangled tale of the Parfumerie employees.
George is in love. The problem is he has never met his secret paramour as they correspond by letter. Just days before he is due to meet his secret correspondent, George’s boss Mr Hammerschmidt fires him for no apparent reason. For the Parfumerie, only the truth can lead to a happy resolution in this old-fashioned, romantic Christmas tale.
THE FELLOWSHIP PLAYERS PRESENT:
Parfumerie
adapted by E.P. Dowdall
PERFORMANCE DATES: 17th to 26th OCTOBER 2019 (not Sunday)
VENUE: The Grange Playhouse, Broadway North, Walsall
DIRECTED BY: RACHEL HOLMES
TICKETS: £10 EACH
BOOKING NOW CLOSED
This amateur production of “Parfumerie” was presented by special arrangement with PLAYSCRIPTS INC.
FEBRUARY 2020
When a house party gathers at Gull’s Point, the seaside home of Lady Tressilian, Neville Strange finds himself caught between his old wife Audrey and his new flame Kay.
A nail-biting thriller, the play probes the psychology of jealousy in the shadow of a savage and brutal murder.
A carefully unpeeled investigation before our eyes brings the story to a pointed ending.
THE FELLOWSHIP PLAYERS PRESENT:
Towards Zero
by Agatha Christie & Gerald Verner.
PERFORMANCE DATES: 6th to 15th FEBRUARY 2020 (not Sunday)
VENUE: The Grange Playhouse, Broadway North, Walsall
DIRECTED BY: Rebecca Holmes
TICKETS: £10 EACH
BOOKING NOW CLOSED
This amateur production of “Towards Zero” was presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH LTD a Concord Theatricals Company.
NEXT SEASON’S PRODUCTIONS:
When UK COVID19 restrictions are relaxed and the theatre is allowed to reopen, our new season will begin with the two productions held over from Season 73. Here are details of these productions:
DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
At the Cull-Loomis School of English, English is spoken and English is taught to foreigners who are eager to learn. But in the staffroom there is confusion and farce as no-ones seems to be able to speak the language at all.
The comedy is rich, though it is no laughing matter that every term may be St. John Quartermaine’s last. The play follows the relationships between seven teachers at the school and, more particularly, the relationships between St. John Quartermaine and his colleagues.
THE FELLOWSHIP PLAYERS PRESENT:
Quartermaine’s Terms
by Simon Gray.
PERFORMANCE DATES: Postponed to Next Season
VENUE: The Grange Playhouse, Broadway North, Walsall
DIRECTED BY: ROD BISSETT
TICKETS: £10 EACH
TO BOOK, CONTACT OUR BOX OFFICE ON: 01922 630495
Online Ticket Sales Available from (TBA) at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/fellowship-players
This amateur production of “Quartermaine’s Terms” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH LTD a Concord Theatricals Company.
DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
‘Love Is All Around’ is a feminist publishing house where Harriet Copeland is running a competition to find new romantic fiction; their motto is ‘For Women By Women’. To avoid this gender bias, Leonard Loftus is forced to submit his novel under a female pseudonym. So when Myrtle Banbury wins the first prize, Leonard begins to have a major problem. He is a bashful statistician lumbered with a spectacular alter ago. With domestic complications from his wayward daughter Dee Dee and Gus, his rascally old father, Leonard tries frantically to keep up the charade of Myrtle. His problems are made worse when he falls hopelessly in love with Harriet. He is a worried man in the guise of a carefree woman. The happy ending is not going to be easy.
In high heels and lipstick our hero is caught in a hilarious dilemma of cross-dressing and cross-purposes. It has the fertile tradition of Some Like It Hot, Tootsie, and Mrs. Doubtfire and has been widely acclaimed as a classic feel good romantic comedy This is a play that offers belly laughs galore – four irresistibly loveable characters locked into a hilarious plot.
THE FELLOWSHIP PLAYERS PRESENT:
Nobody’s Perfect
by Simon Williams.
PERFORMANCE DATES: Postponed to Next Season
VENUE: The Grange Playhouse, Broadway North, Walsall
DIRECTED BY: DAWN VIGURS
TICKETS: £10 EACH
TO BOOK, CONTACT OUR BOX OFFICE ON: 01922 630495
Online Ticket Sales Available from (TBA) at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/fellowship-players
This amateur production of “Nobody’s Perfect” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH LTD a Concord Theatricals Company.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT OUR BOX OFFICE ON 01922 630495
The Fellowship Players are members of The National Operatic and Dramatic Association (NODA) and Birmingham Theatre Guild
