Archive for 2018

Presented by Belfrey Youth Theatre Peter Pan – the Musical  tells the classic J.M. Barrie tale of a young boy who refuses to grow up. On a quest to find stories with which to entertain his young cohorts in Neverland — an island refuge for “Lost Boys” — Peter returns to the real world and meets Wendy, Michael, and John Darling. The Darling children accompany Peter back to the magical Neverland, where they learn to fly, get involved in all sorts of adventures, defeat the evil Captain Hook, and are changed forever.   PERFORMANCES – Saturday and Sunday Matinees at 2.30 […]

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  The Shropshire Drama Festival. (a first round festival of the All England Theatre Festival) The festival is held every Spring and showcases the best theatrical talent from around the county. Two or three one-act plays are shown each evening and a professional adjudicator is on hand to give the competing teams the benefit of his comments. The festival ends with an awards evening where individual and group talent is singled out for the presentation of various awards. The competition is organised into adult and youth categories and the winners can go on to represent Shropshire in the All England […]

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Alan Bennett’s first play, written in 1973, is a farcical comedy set in Brighton in the 1960s where the lust and longing of the permissive society has well and truly taken hold of the apparently respectable Wicksteed family. Like some saucy Magill seaside postcard as retouched by Magritte, or an end-of-the-pier romp reorganised by Orton, the piece shows how a collection of stock types from Hove find themselves propelled into the permissive society with the arrival of a false-breast fitter from Leatherhead. Identities are mistaken, the wrong knockers admiringly fondled, and libidos burst out of enforced hibernation. boxoffice@belfreytheatre.com or 01952 […]

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With lots of songs and silly jokes this is a traditional pantomime for all the family to enjoy. Can Jack save the people of Merrydale from the scary giant and his horrible henchman? Will the King be able to satisfy the giant’s demands for more money?, will Grabbit, the baillif, get anyone to pay any rent?, will Jack, Jill and Daisy the cow live happily ever after? You’ll just have to join us to find out, Oh yes you will! boxoffice@belfreytheatre.com or 01952 222277 Updated:Tuesday, January 29, 2019

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With lots of songs and silly jokes this is a traditional pantomime for all the family to enjoy. Can Jack save the people of Merrydale from the scary giant and his horrible henchman? Will the King be able to satisfy the giant’s demands for more money?, will Grabbit, the baillif, get anyone to pay any rent?, will Jack, Jill and Daisy the cow live happily ever after? You’ll just have to join us to find out, Oh yes you will! boxoffice@belfreytheatre.com or 01952 222277 Updated:Sunday, February 3, 2019

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In Shakespeare’s bloodthirsty. supernatural tragedy, Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a coven of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. boxoffice@belfreytheatre.com or 01952 222277 Updated:Monday, October 22, 2018

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