Iolanthe Launch!

Thank you to our audiences for making The Grand Duke such a huge success! It has truly been a wonderful week with so many people supporting us and thoroughly this enjoying seldom performed G&S.

We are already getting ready for our next show which will be G&S's Fairies v Peers classic, Iolanthe. Our launch night will be Tuesday 2 April at 7.45pm at Streatley Village Hall LU3 3PS. Meet our MD, Jane Stott. and have a sing through the music! Audition pieces will be available - the auditions will be held on Sunday 28th April at 3pm, with the venue to be confirmed soon. And on Tuesday 9th April our Director, Alison Gibbs will be with us to talk about the production and give us character notes.

If you are new to the society and would like to join us you will find everything you need on our Contact Us page. We are a very friendly group, so feel free to just turn up on the night and introduce yourself - you will be made very welcome. We also welcome non-performing members - there is always plenty to do behind the scenes!

We look forward to seeing you all!
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It's show week!

It's finally show week and we are so looking forward to presenting our production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Grand Duke to you when we open on Wednesday! Grand Duke is rarely performed but still contains the sharp wit and sparkling music that the duo are famous for, including a wonderful roulette song - cut by Gilbert and Sullivan from the original production but now regarded as one of the best numbers in the show! During the course of the production a theatrical troupe take over a Grand Duchy in one of G&S's maddest plots ever, with the theatrical plotters using sausage rolls as a secret sign, comedy actor Ludwig managing to acquire four wives in one day, a drunken Baroness and a nod at 'Troilus and Cressida' thrown in.

Our Director, Graham Breeze (who gave us last year's sparkling Gondoliers), has created an up-to-date production that has had us in stitches in rehearsals. Tickets are almost sold out so book now by clicking on this button to go straight through to the Queen Mother Theatre Box Office:

Robert Kendrick as Rudolph and Sue Wookey as the Baroness

Paula Fraser as Julia and Stephen Hoath as Ludwig

The company rehearsing