The Group Eight Panto this year will be ‘A Christmas Carol – THE PANTOMIME’ written by Adrian Barradell based upon the story by Charles Dickens.

The play is cast and rehearsals are under way.

Tickets are available online at 6:00PM on September 3rd on our tickets page at https://groupeight.co.uk/buy-your-tickets/. Please note that we will no longer offer advance email reservations of tickets to pay on the door due to the significant number of ‘no shows’ for recent performances. If you do not wish to book in advance you may pay on the day as long as tickets are still available. We now have a card machine to take card payments at the door.

Cast and crew look forward to sharing the play with you in early December.

Thank you very much to everyone who came to see Bunkered. Group Eight discussions will now turn to what we will be doing at Christmas!

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

All systems go for our show. See you on Thursday, 7th Friday 8th and Saturday 9th May curtain up 19:45.

Its a great show and we have had great fun bringing it to the stage. Hope to see lots of you there.

Looking forward to seeing you all at the show. Don’t forget you can get your tickets here.or email us to reserve them at groupeight1973@outlook.com

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

Posters have started to go up round the villages and the cast are busy learning lines as well as where they are supposed to be on stage to stop falling over each other. Here is a photo from our recent rehearsal in the annexe featuring two new members of the group.

Weekend set building and rehearsals start in a couple of weeks time. Tickets are available on our web site at https://groupeight.co.uk/buy-your-tickets/ and pre-orders to pick up on the night may be sent to groupeight1973@outlook.com.

We look forward to seeing lots of you there on May 7th to 9th.

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

Tickets have now gone on sale for our next production ‘Bunkered‘ which will be on stage on Thursday May 7th, Friday May 8th and Saturday May 9th. Our tickest Page may be reached here https://groupeight.co.uk/buy-your-tickets/

The cast and crew are now working hard on the show getting it ready for you. It is a fun play and we hope that our audiences will enjoy it too!

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

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.

So its goodbye from the cast of Snow Queen. For 2026 we plan a Spring play and our traditional Panto. So look forward to seeing you then.

Group Eight

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

Yes it is our opening night tonight. Fun and frolics at the Village Hall…..See you there!