Belstone Players

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Belstone Players Committee

Edwina Hill (Chair) 01837 840332
Simon Herbert (Treasurer) 01837 840693
Sharon Cooper (Secretary) 01837 840909
Robin Hill
Jane Herbert
Peter Radlett

French Toast and Last Panto in Little Belstone – A Review

Posted on 23rd March 2017

We went to the last night of this sell out play from the excellent Belstone Players. The village Hall makes a great venue and what would anyway have been a…

1956	November	Autumn Concert: “The Belstone Ranchers” + “Gossips Glory” by T B Morris + “Goose Chase” by Mabel Constanduras & Howard Egg
1958		“Brenamoor” Olde Salts” + “A Mouse, A Mouse!” +”Miss Tarzan”
1960	March	Edwardian Concert: “Uncle Midnight” by Philip Johnson + “It won’t be a Stylish Marriage” by L du Garde Peach
1960	December	Variety Concert: “The Belstone Tramps“ + ” Three Ladies in a Temper” by Peter Florin + “Element of Doubt” by Anthony Booth
1963	November	“Ladies in Retirement” by Edward Percy & Reginald Denham (First three-act play performed by The Players)
1966	November	“Charity Begins” by Ireland Wood
1967		“No Escape” by Rhys Davies
1969	March	“Fresh Fields” by Ivor Novello
1970	November	“A Month of Sundays” by Gerald Savory
1972	March	“Too Soon for Daisies” by William Dinner & William Morum
1973	November	“Breath of Spring” by Peter Coke
1974	November	“Trespass” by Emlyn Williams
1975	November	“Mad About Men” by Peter Blackmore
1976	November	“Treasure Hunt” by M J Farrell & John Perry
1977		“The Desk” by Frank Day
1977	April	‘Missing’ production – perhaps Blithe Spirit
1978	January	Panto: “Dick of Whiddon Down” by Max Rouse
1980	January	Panto: “Aladdin” by Max Rouse
1980	November	“Sailor Beware” by Philip King & Falkland Cary
1981	April	“The Blue Goose” by Peter Blackmore
1982	January	Panto: “Robin Hood” by Max Rouse
1982	November	“Something to Hide” by Leslie Sands
1983	April	“Beside the Seaside” by Leslie Sands
1984	January	Panto: “Ali Baba” by Arthur Read – adapted by Max Rouse & Frank Day
1984	November	“Dry Rot” by John Chapman
1986	January	Panto: “Cinderella” by Arthur Read
1986	November	“Murder at the Vicarage” by Moie Charles and Barbara Tot
1987	April	“Find the Lady” by Michael Pertwee
1988	January	Panto: “Beauty and the Beast” by Frank Day
1989	March	“Breath of Spring” by Peter Coke
1990	January	Panto: “Dick of Whiddon Down” by Max Rouse, updated by Frank Day
1990	July	“Fumed Oak” by Noel Coward (For the Okehampton Festival)
1990	November	“And This Was Odd” by Kenneth Horne
1991	April	“Intent to Murder” by Leslie Sands
1992	January	Panto: “Babes in Skaigh Wood”
1993	January	“Wait Until Dark” by Frederick Knott
1994	January	Panto: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” by Judith Shone
1995	January	“Here We Come Gathering” by Philip King & Anthony Armstrong
1996	January	Panto: “Jack and the Beanstalk” by Judith Shone
1996	November	‘Farndale Avenue’ “Macbeth” by David M^cGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr
1997	April	Wanted – One Body” by Raymond Dyer
1998	January	Panto: “Sleeping Beauty” by Edwina & Richard Hill
1998	December	‘Farndale Avenue’ “A Christmas Carol” by David M^cGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr
1999	June	“Confusions” by Alan Ayckbourn
2000	January	Panto: “A Ladd in Belstone” by Edwina Hill
2002	January	Panto: “Cinderella” by Edwina Hill
2003	February	“Seeds of Doubt” by Peter Gordon
2004	January	Panto: “Sinbad the Failure” by Edwina Hill
2005	February	Dame Agatha’s Greatest Case by Robert Sheppard
2006	January	Panto: “Mother Goose” by Edwina Hill
2006	November	“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie
2007	June	“Outside Edge” by Richard Harris
2009	January	Panto: “Snow White and Several Dwarfs” by Edwina Hill
2010	March	“Habeas Corpus” by Alan Bennett
2011	Feb/March	Panto: Jack and the Beanstalk” by Edwina Hill
2012	March	Supper Theatre: Two one-act plays “The Offence” by Diana Raffle & “A Cut in the Rates” by Alan Ayckbourn
2013	Feb/March	Panto: “Puss in Boots” by Edwina Hill
2014	March	“Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders” by Derek Webb
2015	March	Supper Theatre: Two one-act plays “A Little Box od Oblivion” by Stephen Bean & “Last Tango in Little Belstone” by David Tristram (Title adapted with author’s permission)
2016	February	Panto: “Ali Baba and the Naughty Thieves” by Edwina Hill
2017	March	Supper Theatre: Two one-act plays “French Toast” by Diana Raffle & “Last Panto in Little Belstone” by David Tristram (Title adapted with author’s permission)