Author: Riverside Players
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16th – 19th January 2025 There’s trouble brewing in old Baghdad. Unless the beautiful Princess Jasmina marries before her21st Birthday, the evil Vizier will take control of the city! Things look grim… but hang on! A posse of would-be heroes are here to save the day! Thelove sick Ali Barber (who pines for the Princess),…
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Contractions by Mike Bartlett and Red Blooded by Peter Bridge This autumn, Riverside Players of Sunbury are bringing you an intriguing double bill of two one-act plays that offer very different takes on life in the “rat race”. Contractions by Mike Bartlett (award-winning writer whose work includes King Charles III and BBC’s Doctor Foster) is…
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This much-loved masterpiece that inspired Lerner & Loewe’s musical My Fair Lady. Set in 1913, flower girl Eliza Doolittle has a chance encounter with the acerbic Professor Henry Higgins and sees an opportunity to improve her lot in life. She asks him to teach her to ‘talk proper’, but gets far more than she had planned…
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19th – 22nd January 2023 Written and directed by a long-serving member, Carrie Millinger, this is Cinderella – with a twist! We find Cinderella where we always find her, struggling with her step-mother and two ugly step-sisters. They are always so late for everything, Cinderella can never get them where they need to be on…
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With the “in-person” Spelthorne and Runnymede Drama Festival cancelled in 2022, Riverside Players teamed up with Bishopstoke Players of Eastleigh to put on a one-night-only double bill of Camberley Triangle by A.A. Milne and Exposed by Peter Yates at Riverside Arts Centre to enable the cast and crew to showcase their talent and to raise…
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Arguably one of the most famous love stories ever told, a tale of tempestuous passions and forbidden love. Jane Eyre tells the story of the eponymous unloved, orphaned Jane who finds employment as a governess to the young ward of the brooding, enigmatic Mr Rochester, a man with a dark past. As her feelings for Rochester develop,…
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Once again, Riverside Players is supporting local dramatic arts by participating in the Spelthorne and Runnymede Drama Festival in full force. Unfortunately the in-person event at Riverside Arts Centre did not go ahead this year, but the virtual festival enables everyone to get in on the action from the comfort of their own homes! The…
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30th June – 2nd July 2022 Thunder Rock by Robert Ardrey is a play with a proud pedigree: a symbol of British resistance during World War II, it ran throughout the worsening Blitz in London and then on tour. With its message of hope, carpe diem, the futility of burying one’s head in the sand…
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