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OUR FORTHCOMING PRODUCTION
OUR FORTHCOMING PRODUCTION
Something Narsty in the Woodshed!
Tickets now available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/hadit or by calling Carolyn on 01433 620665
Adapted by Sally Hedges from Stella Gibbons’ novel Cold Comfort Farm
As a young journalist working on the Evening Standard, Stella Gibbons summarised books for serialisation. After reading one too many lurid rural novels, very popular at the time, she set out to explode their clichés once and for all by writing Cold Comfort Farm, which was published in 1932. In it she parodied the romanticised, doom-laden, so-called “loam and love child” fiction of the 20s, such as D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb. It was an immediate success and was considered to have been largely responsible killing off this style of fiction.
This is a fun adaptation Our heroine, Londoner Flora Poste, is young, sensible, sophisticated and determined. When she is suddenly left an orphan, she contacts her relatives in the hope that one of them will offer her a home, rather than be forced to earn herself a living. She is invited to an isolated farm in the fictional village of Howling in darkest Sussex, where she meets the strange Starkadder family. (And yes, there will be a bull!)
As is typical in the genre of literature which Stella Gibbons is parodying, each of the farm's inhabitants has some long-festering emotional problem caused by ignorance, hatred or fear, and the farm itself is being badly run. Reclusive Aunt Ada Doom, who once “saw something narsty in the woodshed”, sits alone in her attic room but rules the family with an iron fist. Whatever is Flora, with nothing but “a hundred pounds a year and a slender ankle” to do with them all?
Performances will be at Hope Methodist Hall from Wed 7th to Sat 10th May. Tickets now available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/hadit or by calling Carolyn on 01433 620665.
Who are we?
Who are we?
We are an Amateur Dramatic group based in the Hope Valley - the heart of the Peak District - who enjoy putting on productions for the local community. We welcome new members to come along and join in whether it be on the boards or back stage. Contact any of the committee for more details.
We are an Amateur Dramatic group based in the Hope Valley - the heart of the Peak District - who enjoy putting on productions for the local community. We welcome new members to come along and join in whether it be on the boards or back stage. Contact any of the committee for more details.
On a cold winter’s night in the Cheese someone slurred “I’ve always wanted to do a pantomime . . .”. Yet more pints later, and HADIT was born! A flurry of meetings and auditions followed, along with some serious fund raising and enthusiastic community support. Cinderella took to the boards in March 2010. We now have five pantos, fifteen plays, one live radio play, one semi-staged reading and six Wake’s Week Murder Mysteries under our belts.
On a cold winter’s night in the Cheese someone slurred “I’ve always wanted to do a pantomime . . .”. Yet more pints later, and HADIT was born! A flurry of meetings and auditions followed, along with some serious fund raising and enthusiastic community support. Cinderella took to the boards in March 2010. We now have five pantos, fifteen plays, one live radio play, one semi-staged reading and six Wake’s Week Murder Mysteries under our belts.
We rehearse on Mondays and Wednesdays. Our main performance venue is Hope Methodist Hall.
We rehearse on Mondays and Wednesdays. Our main performance venue is Hope Methodist Hall.
New members will be made very welcome, whether as actors or for help with one or more of the many other aspects of a production. These include directing, choreography, music, set building, costume, props, stage management, lighting, sound and front of house.
New members will be made very welcome, whether as actors or for help with one or more of the many other aspects of a production. These include directing, choreography, music, set building, costume, props, stage management, lighting, sound and front of house.
We organise social evenings and theatre trips, as well as open play readings and stagecraft sessions when we aren’t in rehearsal. We have also continued the way we started, with regular Wednesday get togethers in the Old Hall.
We organise social evenings and theatre trips, as well as open play readings and stagecraft sessions when we aren’t in rehearsal. We have also continued the way we started, with regular Wednesday get togethers in the Old Hall.
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