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Banbury Cross and Brassed Off..........

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:02:25 +0000

No one can accuse Banbury Cross Players of lacking courage when it comes to choosing their productions.

A Christmas Carol: Cratchit if you can.........

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:06:43 +0000

Ventured out last friday night to Lain’s Barn to witness the Domino Players take on A Christmas Carol. What finer production for this time of year? Review herewith: A Christmas Carol, the timely seasonal offering from Domino Players centres round old miser Ebenezer Scrooge who refuses to accept the Christmas spirit and generally spreads gloom and misery in his wake with money as his sole purpose for living.

I may not know a lot about Mozart but I know what I like.......

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:31:42 +0000

Review of Banbury Cross Players' Amadeus by Peter Shaffer. For their first offering of the 2010/11 season, Banbury Cross Players chose Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, the highly fictionalised story based on lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.

A twinkling in his eye

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:14:02 +0100

"Would you like to sit on my knee?"

Neville's Island's a shore fire hit......

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:26:09 +0100

Went to see Neville’s Island staged by the Banbury Cross Players last week and I have to say they made a great job of it.

The party's over, it's time to call it a day.......

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:30:52 +0100

Nearly three weeks since my last blog eh? Why is that? I hear you cry. Well I’ve been contemplating my navel along with much gnashing of teeth and finally came to the decision not to renew my subscription to the Drama Group. Before another scribbling under the heading of Am Dram Man I thought I had better sort things out drama wise. Now bearing in mind I have been a member since 1972 this was no easy conclusion to come to.

If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all.....

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:38:17 +0100

Thursday matinee and we’re sat in the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham watching the Calendar Girls. I thought well I saw the film and enjoyed it so let’s see how they do it on stage. The answer is they did it very well. Tim Firth’s excellent and comic script transfers very well to the boards and the show was one of the best I have seen on the stage.

Oh dear, what can the matter be......?

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:50:30 +0100

Well I didn’t get to the Unicorn Theatre in the end to see any of the ODN festival for reasons I won’t bore you with. I understand our play ‘The Summer of my Thirtieth Year’ is now to be put on as part of the Wallingford festival this week. I shall hopefully be able to write a few lines about our performance and at this and the ODN festival soon. We used to get a brief synopsis each week as to what is happening at group headquarters but no more it seems. Surely I won’t have to attend a club night?

Antics at Hay

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:34:58 +0100

I have just returned from my annual pilgrimage to the Golden Valley for the Hay Festival and I'm happy to report that I enjoyed it just as much as last year if not more.

Evening Parking in Oxford is Twilight Robbery.............

Mon, 24 May 2010 17:13:32 +0100

As mentioned last week six intrepid souls trekked to Oxford on Wednesday night, pooled our resources to buy a car parking ticket, (how they justify taking this kind of money for parking in the evening I don’t know. The last time I was robbed at least they had the courtesy to wear a mask). Anyway I digress, the point of the exercise was to see Fun Run at the Old Fire Station by local playwright Joe Graham.