Kingston Bagpuize Drama Group

Congratulations to both our one act play entries in the Oxfordshire Drama Network Festival, and the Wallingford Festival. Both casts and crews put a huge amount of time and effort into their entries and we are proud of their achievements.

Now the drama festivals have finished, we go into what we traditionally think of as ‘vacation mode’. We have nothing in rehearsal until September and this is supposed to be our quiet time. But at the moment it seems pretty busy. We have our 60^th Anniversary Quiz Night, 7.30pm at the Village Hall on 20 June, then our stall at the village fete on 27 June, and of course several of us are involved in The Film. We are also organising our Children’s Workshops, which will take place in August. More info on these next month.

We begin planning our performance schedule for 2010, which involves potential directors and other Group members ‘making a pitch’ for a play they would like to see performed next year. And then start research on our November production, Still Life by Noel Coward, better known to most of you as the basis for the 1945 film Brief Encounter, a real weepie. So get your hankies ready! Auditions soon follow, and then it’s September and back to rehearsal.

If you are interested in joining us in any of these activities, we would love to see you. We meet at 7.30pm in the Village Hall every Tuesday night. Do come along, or have a look at our website: http://kbdgshow.biz/ for more information on the Group.

Sally Lacey

KBDG Committee Tel 01865 736913

We’ve just uploaded a huge batch of pictures from some of our old productions. They can be found by clicking on KBDG Photo Archive or by visiting Previous Productions above.

There are some excellent pictures of plays produced in the 1960’s and 70’s.

Kingston Bagpuize Drama Group congratulated Linda Hudson, Lance Bassett, Nick O’Keeffe, Margaret Palmer, George Pulley, Ian Ashby and David Greenaway for their long service to the group. Presentations were made to the members at the Group’s annual dinner held at Fallowfields in Southmoor. The dinner marks the start of the Group’s 60th year celebrations.

20th January 2009, Rob Bateman of Kingston Bagpuize Drama Group presents a cheque for £500 to Stan Webb, of the Royal British Legion. This money was raised from a collection taken after the Group’s performance of The Accrington Pals, by Peter Whelan.  The play tells the story of the men of Accrington who went off to fight in World War I and mostly lost their lives, and how this affected the women who were left behind.