The wraps are off!

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Group Eight has decided on our Spring Play for 2026. This is a comedy ‘bunkered‘ by Lynn Brittney.

Here’s a taste of what the play is about.

Somewhere near the coast in Britain is a Naval Intelligence Cold War Bunker, manned by four naval personnel nearing retirement. Only, as far as the Royal Navy is concerned, the bunker was decommissioned in 1991 and the staff were made redundant… except somehow they all slipped through the net and continued to receive monthly pay cheques from the Ministry of Defence computer system. Peter, a Chief Petty Officer with a strong sense of responsibility, and the nearest to retirement age, decides to bring a friend in to bring all the equipment up to full working order. Imagine the alarm at Naval Headquarters when they start getting signals from what they thought was a defunct facility! Time to call in the Marines! With, of course, hilarious consequences…

Parts have been cast and we are all looking forward to starting work on the play at the start of February!

We welcome your comments and questions.   Please go to our Group Eight Facebook page or email us at groupeight1973@outlook.com.

Its Springtime for Group Eight

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January is the time for our AGM and we held that by Zoom after a heavy burst of snow made a journey to the Village Hall inadvisable. Our Officers were all re-elected to serve for another year and the date for the first play reading of the year decided.

Chair – Alan Campbell

Treasurer – Jennie Campbell

Secretary – Jess Moore

Jennie has volunteered to direct our Spring Production and has a play in mind! We will all be meeting in January to read it and see if the group approves.

We will update you all on our choice of play as soon as we know here and on our Facebook page.

SNOW QUEEN TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!

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Get the dates into your diaries! Group Eight will be on stage at Hackleton Village Hall to present the Snow Queen at 7.45 PM on December 4th, 5th and 6th. We will also be doing a matinee as usual at 2.30 PM on Saturday 6th.

Tickets are now available here on our website if you follow this link https://groupeight.co.uk/buy-your-tickets/

The Snow Queen

This Panto was written by Tina & Robert Burbidge. It loosely follows Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of ‘The Snow Queen‘ in a pantomime format. So there will be jokes, songs, and the occasional accident with a pie.

Group Eight is now working hard rehearsing and we hope to see lots of you in December ready to join in the fun!

We welcome your comments and questions.   Please go to our Group Eight Facebook page or email us at groupeight1973@outlook.com.

Pantomime Preparation under way!

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Jess Moore has been selected by the group to Direct our Panto this year. She has been busy reading scripts and getting ready for our first reading evening early in August. Rehearsals proper will start in September and we will be on stage early in December.

Keep an eye out in the Parish Mag for more details of what is going on as we get the production ready to go on stage.

If you are not in the group but fancy being in the group on stage or behind the scenes then please email us at groupeight1972@outlook.com. (Please note that the number of children that we can have in the cast is limited by chaperoning rules and we are fully subscribed already for this production).

We welcome your comments and questions.   Please go to our Group Eight Facebook page or email us at groupeight1973@outlook.com.

Thank You All For Coming!

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Group Eight’s Spring Play has now finished. Cast and Crew would like to thank everyone who came along to see us. All three nights had good audiences who laughed and even joined in from time to time.

The Group will now have a brief rest before starting rehearsals for our Panto this year which will be on December 4th, 5th and 6th. Keep an eye on this website and the Parish Mag for more details about the Pantomime as they become available.

Thank You from Group Eight.

Time to get your tickets!

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Are you ready for our next show The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth?

Our cast and crew are hard at work rehearsing this weekend (12/13 April), and the next one too, to get this show ready for you all to see. Tickets can be bought on this website here. Or Email us to reserve a ticket on groupeight1973@outlook.com.

We look forward to seeing lots of you on the evenings of the 24th to 26th April 2025.