Drama
Following our very successful Pantomime in January we are now well into rehearsals for our summer play 'Once Upon a Preston Guild', loosely based on the popular tv series 'Are You Being Served?'. This will be our 10th Anniversary production which has been written by one of the cast, Fred Roberts, and is proving a lot of fun to do. It will be set in Preston with a lot of local references and will be performed on Saturday 20th July, at 2pm at Christ Church Hall in Fulwood.
Drama is still proving to be a very popular group. Our numbers reflect this. With such large numbers it is difficult finding suitable plays so our plays are written in-house which has proved successful to date.
The Drama group meets on every 2nd and 4th Monday afternoon of the month from 2-4pm at Galloway Hall, Brackenbury Road, Fulwood. New members please contact me before attending as occasionally the venue needs to change.
Gael Hughes-Jones
HISTORY OF THE GROUP
The PADUTA Players was established in 2014 in the Farne Loft Room at St Cuthbert's Church when a small group got together to discuss the possibility of forming a U3A Drama Group. Since then we have gone from strength to strength, and now have a large group. We have performed many plays, pantomimes and sketches over the years, in the Northumbria Hall at St Cuthbert's, at PNE and at Fulwood Free Methodist Church, but now our regular performance venue is Christ Church, Fulwood where we have progressed to performing on stage with curtains which is much more satisfactory, and enables us to scene change more easily.
During the Pandemic we continued meeting online on Zoom, reading plays we had previously performed and some new ones. We even recruited some new members during this time who have stayed with us.
Following an article in Third Age Matters we hired two of our plays to other U3As and had good feedback.
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