The Davenham Players

Rehearsal
2016-05-17 19:00 - 22:00, 2016-05-12 19:00 - 22:00, 2016-05-10 19:00 - 22:00, 2016-05-04 19:00 - 22:00, 2016-05-03 19:00 - 22:00, 2016-04-28 19:00 - 22:00, 2016-04-26 19:00 - 22:00, 2016-04-24 19:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
… of Farndale Murder Mystery. Performance dates Tuesday 7th to Saturday 11th June 2016.

Play Reading
2016-05-05 19:30 - 21:30, 2016-04-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Denise is back with another of her popular play reading evenings. All are welcome to come along and read or just listen. These evenings help us select plays for possible future performance and are friendly social events with the bar open for use. We don’t yet know what reading Denise will select – you’ll have to come along and find out !

Audition for Farndale Murder Mystery
2016-04-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
One of two audition nights Graham Hough is holding for his June production Farndale Murder Mystery.
The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery is a play for four women and one man set in a drawing room. Every drama group has experience the horrors of what can go wrong on the night and the ladies of the F.A.H.E.T.G. Dramatic Society are no different, with the possible exception that almost everything that could happen does, unfortunately, happen. The scenery collapses, cues are missed, lines forgotten, and the sound effects takes on a strange note at times, as the ladies present their ambitions evening’s entertainment with the cunning whodunit. “Murder at Checkmate Manor”. And just in case the audience should get bored there’s a Fashion Show and a Murder Mystery Quiz complete with Prize. The crunch comes in the denouement when the “murderer”, about to be revealed has to rush home to bandage up an injured daughter. But Mrs Reece, doyenne of the group, rises above the slings and arrows of outrageous dramatics to save the situation and provide the final inventive twist.
Cast 4 female to play multiple parts and 1 Male, ages mid 20+
Play week 6th June.
Casting readings 30th March 7.30 and 5th April.
For any more information or to let me know if you are interested or not please email graham@grahamhough.co.uk

Audition for Farndale Murder Mystery
2016-03-30 19:30 - 21:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
One of two audition nights Graham Hough is holding for his June production Farndale Murder Mystery.
The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery is a play for four women and one man set in a drawing room. Every drama group has experience the horrors of what can go wrong on the night and the ladies of the F.A.H.E.T.G. Dramatic Society are no different, with the possible exception that almost everything that could happen does. The scenery collapses, cues are missed, lines forgotten, and the sound effects takes on a strange note at times, as the ladies present their ambitions evening’s entertainment with the cunning whodunit. “Murder at Checkmate Manor”. And just in case the audience should get bored there’s a Fashion Show and a Murder Mystery Quiz complete with Prize. The crunch comes in the denouement when the “murderer”, about to be revealed has to rush home to bandage up an injured daughter. But Mrs Reece, doyenne of the group, rises above the slings and arrows of outrageous dramatics to save the situation and provide the final inventive twist.
Cast 4 female to play multiple parts and 1 Male, ages mid 20+
Play week 6th June.
Casting readings 30th March 7.30 and 5th April.
For any more information or to let me know if you are interested or not please email graham@grahamhough.co.uk

Young Players Holiday Workshop
2016-03-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom

In the Company of Women
2016-03-19 20:00 - 22:00, 2016-03-15 20:00 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Seven women, three plays all in one night. Tuesday 15th to Saturday 19th March 2016 inclusive Bar opens 7.30pm ; Show starts at 8pm; Tickets £10. Booking on-line via http://www.danarts.org/ (Development of the Arts in Northwich) or phone Davenham Players Box Office 01606 259596
Rise & Shine (stars Kelly Cowley) Medea (with Vanessa Duffy, Denise Barry, Sue Elliott, Andrea Scott and Jo Oultram). Both these short plays by Dario Fo & Franca Rame. Also on the same night Laura Elizabeth Bason will star in Where do Little Birds Go? by Camilla Whitehill.
The show is called “In the Company of Women” : it is all about women and their lot in life, their struggles and fight for identity from Medea (based on the mythic story of Jason & Medea). Rise & Shine a factory worker with a child and sleeping partner trying to get ready for work in her crowded life and Where do little birds go about Lucy who gets caught up in 60s London as a teenager and is used by the Kray twins as a woman to “amuse” mad axeman Frank Mitchell while he is holed up in a London flat after being broken out of prison by the Krays.
Franca Rame writing about her 2 plays says “The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have been crying for two thousand years. So let’s laugh now, even at ourselves.”
Extract from critics about Where do Little Birds Go?:
That day in the pub, the day I first saw them, they were dressed identically. Dark wool coats, smart hats. The whole pub went quiet. It’s 1966. Lucy Fuller is 18 years old. She likes musicals and make up, and her job at Winston’s night club. One night Lucy is kidnapped by the Kray twins and locked in a flat with an escaped murderer. This is the terrifying story of Lucy’s time with Ronnie, Reggie, and Frank “The Mad Axeman” Mitchell. Where do little birds go? is a colourful and poignant tale of crime, kidnap and lost innocence in the heart of the 1960s East End.
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Rehearsal - Company of Women - Dress
2016-03-13 17:00 - 22:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom

Rehearsal - Company of Women
2016-03-10 19:00 - 22:00, 2016-03-08 17:30 - 22:00, 2016-03-03 18:00 - 22:00, 2016-03-01 18:00 - 22:00, 2016-02-26 17:30 - 22:00, 2016-02-23 17:30 - 22:00, 2016-02-18 17:30 - 22:00, 2016-02-16 17:30 - 22:00 and 2 more dates | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom

Sir John Deane's Jazz Band
2016-03-03 19:00 - 22:00 | Northwich Memorial Court, Northwich, CW9 5QJ, United Kingdom
Sir John Deane’s Jazz Band are giving a Charity Concert in aid of St Luke’s Hospice on THURSDAY 3rd MARCH 2016 at Northwich Memorial Court, Chester Way, Northwich, Cheshire CW9 5QJ.
Starts 7.00pm TICKETS £7
Sir John Deane’s Jazz Band will play a repertoire of popular blues and jazz through to modern swing. The band was formed in September 2013 and has been hugely successful, grown rapidly and now features twenty talented musicians and vocalists. They make an impressive sound with rhythm, brass and woodwind sections. The band has previously performed for charity including a concert at Eaton Hall and a stunning evening of jazz and swing at the Macdonald Portal in Tarporley.
You can buy tickets (£7.00) for this great evening’s entertainment via DANArts and St Luke’s Hospice (an excellent local charity) or at the Jazz@Davenham February concert. Or you can book online at Northwich Memorial Court – Brio Leisure Entertainment https://theatrebooking.brioleisure.org

Mosaic Workshop
2016-02-21 10:00 - 16:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Join Jan and friends at the theatre for whatever time you can spare working on the Davenham Community Mosaic. Or come along to watch how the mosaic is growing. Don’t come in your best clothes, but if you do, an apron will be provided, as will hot or cold drinks.

Play Reading
2016-02-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Graham Hough is organizing this reading of the play he is directing for performance in June. The play is one of the Farndale Avenue series – the Murder Mystery. All are welcome to come along and read or just listen. Farndale Avenue plays always find a way, in fact several ways, of going wrong and the reading should be a lot of fun. The play requires 4 female and one male actor but everyone will get a chance to read tonight.

Committee Meeting
2016-01-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Davenham Theatre, 59 Church Street, Northwich, CW9 8NF, United Kingdom
Date of next meeting Thursday 21st January at 7pm
