Thrapston Amateur Dramatic Society (TADS) will present ‘Alarms & Excursions’, a series of short plays by Michael Frayn. Directed by Sarah Jones at the Thrapston Plaza, from Wednesday 22nd – Saturday 25th April 2015. Doors open at 7pm, performance starts at 7:45pm.

Auditions for this year’s spring play, ‘Alarms and Excursions’ by Michael Frayn, will be held on Friday January 9th, 7.30 pm at the Thrapston Plaza.

Since the play is comprised of 8 individual playlets there will be no set audition pieces to read from, so just turn up on the night!

Wednesday 22nd April – Saturday 25th April

“Alarms and Excursions” performance, 7:30pm at the Plaza.

Friday 29th May

Play reading for “Brassed Off” (autumn play), 7.30pm at the Methodist hall

Friday 12th June

Auditions for Autumn Production, 7:30pm at the Plaza.

Monday 29th June

Play reading for “Party Piece” by Richard Harris (a comedy), 7.30pm at the Methodist hall

Wednesday 11th November – Saturday 14th November

“Brassed Off” (Provisional) performance, 7:30pm at the Plaza.

Thrapston Amateur Dramatic Society (TADS) will present ‘A Chorus of Disapproval’, a comedy by Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by James Ager at the Thrapston Plaza, from Tuesday 11th – Saturday 15th November 2014 (yes, 5 nights this time!) Doors open at 7pm, performance starts at 7:45pm.

Everything revolves around shy, thirtysomething widower Guy Jones. Not only is he the newest arrival in this small-town operatic group, he’s handsome enough for all the women to take a shine to him. And, as various unseen calamities befall members of the cast of the impending production, Guy ascends the ladder to the leading role.

Tickets £6 (concessions £5, all nights) will be available from The Booking Office, The Thrapston Plaza from Tuesday 28th October (closed Sundays) 10am – 2pm...

We’ve received a wonderful write up from the Fifty Plus Northants Adventure Club (http://www.fiftyplusnorthantsadventureclub.org.uk) for a murder mystery evening that we performed for them earlier this year:

Murder Mystery Evening – Chris and Frank Jenkins

Our first mystery of the evening was…..Have we mislaid the tickets or weren’t there any? Our second was “where is Stanion village hall?” (We had left the SAT NAV at home). Having overcome these difficulties we ventured to our second ever 50+ event. Our first had been the fabulous barn dance in January.

Once we found the hall we were soon introduced to Sarah who had lost her mother through cancer six months earlier; Grahame, a gay writer; Michelle, whose husband had numerous affairs and had recently learnt that he had an illegitimate daug...