Theatre

Have a gander at Easter panto

A pantomime at Easter? Oh yes it is! St Nicholas Players are bringing an eggcellent treat to the South Holland Centre from Wednesday, March 27 to Saturday March 30. They’re putting on the Easter pantomime Mother Goose as written by Kei Bailey.It’s promising fun for all ages as well as the usual panto fun.A spokesman for the South Holland Centre ...

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‘ABBA meets cold war’ in Chess

Pupils at Spalding Grammar School are to put on a rock opera next month. Chess is described as ‘a complex rock opera about love, betrayal and fame’ set to music by ABBA songwriters Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus with Tim Rice providing some of the lyrics.Director and head boy Jack Wheatley, said. “For a musical about a seemingly boring board ...

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Group stages dark comedy

Those talented folk at Act II Theatre Company are back next week with a black comedy in two parts. The local youth group are putting on Alan Ayckbourn’s black comedy The Revenegers’ Comedies on both Tuesday, February 13 and Wednesday, February 14 at the South Holland Centre.A spokesman for Act II said: “Fate throws together the eccentric Karen Knightly and ...

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SADOS’ festive fare is a family affair

SADOS (Spalding Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Society) are all set for their festive show this weekend. The group are performing A SADOS Christmas Tale at St Margaret’s Hall in Quadring on Friday and Saturday, December 8 and 9.Created by Becca Turner, Dominique Spinks, Lauren Bullock and Matilda May, it also stars Rebecca May Jones, Andrew Rudd, Charlie Russell, Mellissa Ellan-Rose, ...

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SADOS on look out for new home

A group with over 150-years of putting on productions in Spalding is on the lookout for a place to keep some of its equipment. For nearly 20-years the Smith family has generously allowed the group to store bits at a shed off Monks House Lane, however that’s now been bought by those looking to complete the Spalding Western Relied Road.Currently ...

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SADOS set to be Frank in latest show

Spalding Amateur Dramatic Society is bringing a classic British comedy to the big stage. Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em is set in the 1970s era of the hit BBC TV show, celebrating both its 50th anniversary and the death of its writer Raymond Allen earlier this year.It starred Michael Crawford as the hapless Frank Spencer and Michelle Dottrice playing his ...

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One man went to Poe

Fans of the spooky, the macabre and the mysterious are in for a treat this month! Threedumb Theatre (in partnership with Act II Theatre Company) will be bringing their show One Man Poe to the beautiful surroundings of Ayscoughfee Hall Museum on October 22 at 7pm.Lovers of Gothic fiction will be able to enjoy Stephen Smith perform four of Edgar ...

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Local inspiration for actor Ryan’s new show

The history of this area has inspired a Spalding actor’s latest show which he’s performing at Ayscoughfee Hall tomorrow (Friday, September 29). The Arts Council funded Henry VIII Used to Hate Us is described as being ‘like Peaky Blinders but in the Fens’.It is aimed at 15 to 30-year-olds, though also suitable for older, and Ryan Gilmorton says he wanted ...

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Show based on local history

A Spalding man is to perform his new Arts Council backed show to the town. Henry VIII Used To Hate Us is described as being ‘Like Peaky Blinders but in the Fens’.Created by Ryan Gilmartin, it looks at the history of the local area in a production which includes live music scored by John Dipper who has scored for The ...

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Catch Act II’s show this week

Act II have some Big Fish to try this week. The youth theatre group are putting on their own adaptation of the Daniel Wallace novel that Tim Burton turned into a film. It’s on at The South Holland Centre until Saturday, September 23.A spokesman said: “Act II Theatre Company’s Music Theatre group follow up on their recent successes (The Sound ...

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Woolf’s ‘TED talk’ comes to centre

Virginia Woolf’s classic one woman show, A Room Of One’s Own, is heading to Spalding’s South Holland Centre as part of its nationwide tour. The production stars Rebecca Vaughan and is from the award-winning creators of Austen’s Women, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, and Christmas Gothi. It sees the return of Dyad Productions with a 21st century take on Virginia Woolf’s ...

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Centre will be House of Fun

It’s Madness for Act II this Saturday (June 17). The local youth theatre company are putting on its tribute to the 80s band Absolute Madness at the South Holland Centre.A spokesman said: “Come and join the party and Act II promise to make it One Better Day!“Get your Baggy Trousers on, take the Night Boat To Cairo and join Act ...

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It’ll be all fright on the night

There’s something spooky going down at the South Holland Centre on Saturday night. Do You Believe In Ghosts? promises an ‘experiential ghost story, unlike anything the audience has ever experienced before’.The Ghost Light is a theatre tradition where theatre stages are lit with a single light, even when there is no performance taking place that night. Tradition has it that ...

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Here’s the Heathers

A hit new musical is being screened at the South Holland Centre tomorrow night (Friday May 12). Heathers The Musical is based on the 1989 musical of the same name that’s been showcasing at The Other Place.A spokesman for the South Holland Centre, said: “Get ready for big fun – the smash hit West End stage show Heathers the Musical ...

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Act II are live with the Sound of Music

There may not be any actual mountains to climb in these parts but that won’t stop Act II Theatre Company in their staging of The Sound Of Music this month. This beloved musical comes to the South Holland Centre, featuring all the favourite Rodgers And Hammerstein classics, including Do-Re-Mi, Sixteen Going On Seventeen, The Lonely Goatherd and So Long, Farewell, ...

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Panto up for awards

The Cinderella pantomime which ran at the South Holland Centre in Spalding in November and December has been nominated for several awards from the UK Pantomime Association. Ran by Peterborough-based Polka Dot Pantomimes, Cinderella welcomed more than 10,000 visitors to the South Holland Centre, making it one of the most successful pantomimes in the Centre’s history. The pantomime has gone ...

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Players are set for a dressing down

The St Nicholas Players will be serving up a comedy treat next week. Don’t Dress For Dinner is at the South Holland Centre from Wednesday to Saturday, March 15 to 18. The comedy is by Marc Camoletti and Robin Hawdon. Set in a renovated barn, just outside of Paris, the audience finds Bernard. He is eager to get his wife ...

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It’ll be all fright on the night

Theatre-goers are promised “an experiential ghost story, unlike anything you have ever experienced before” when brand-new production Do You Believe in Ghosts? comes to town. Show creator James Taylor, of the UK’s leading theatre show producers Entertainers, guarantees “a haunting night at the theatre” when it arrives at The South Holland Centre on Saturday, May 20. He asks: “Are you ...

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Pantomime was an absolute ball

Cinderella at the South Holland Centre is the most successful pantomime ever to be staged in Spalding – oh yes it was! Cinderella was staged at the popular South Holland Centre for three weeks in December and is the 18th time that Polka Dot Pantomimes have produced a pantomime in the town. A spokesman for the South Holland Centre, said: ...

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Time to have a ball

It’s that time of year again – oh yes it is! This year Spalding’s traditional pantomime is Cinderella and its opening night is at the South Holland Centre tomorrow (Friday, December 9) before running until December 30. Produced by Polka Dot Productions it stars Daisy Kin-Sanders as the title character, Dan Shorrock as Buttons, Zane Heath as Prince Charming, Jenni ...

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