When is it?
Tuesdays from 7:30pm (seasonally)
Who is it for?
Age 7 – no upper age limit! Membership generally through the Church
What does it cost?
Free (productions are ticketed for the audience)
What’s it all about?
Our church’s drama group has a longstanding history. There has been a drama presence for most of our 50+ years together as church and the group was made official in the 1980s.
We perform plays, pantomimes and sketches with the aim of enhancing the life of the church through providing entertainment, engagement in our local community and through fundraising. Membership of the Players is for those from the church or other local churches. If you’re not part of a church currently but are interested in getting involved please contact us as we’d still be interested in hearing from you.
Our pantomimes are an annual fixture now in the church and community’s calendar. For many years in our early history we wrote our own scripts. After many years buying in other scripts we have made a recent return to our roots with our resident scriptwriter writing for us including ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘Neverland: A Peter Pan Pantomime’. We are told she has many more scripts in store for us.
Pantomimes are great fun to come and watch and to be involved in. We usually perform them during the last week of January and are well supported by the church and friends locally including the uniformed organisations that meet in the church.
Our adult cast previously performed plays and sketches during the year however in more recent years the focus of these additional performances has been on our Junior Cast:
“Roots”
The Junior Section of the players (newly named as ‘Roots’) forms a large part of our pantomime cast and sine 2014 the group have performed in their own summer productions. These shows include: Fantastic Mr Fox, James and the Giant Peach and The Jungle Book. These shows have been very successful and well received.
Like the main group the Juniors become members of the Players through their connection to the church or occasionally are recruited through other groups such as Youth Club if we have a need for a larger cast.
This drama group is free of charge and there is a high interest in it. We do not have open membership applications but instead recruit to the group as the need arises. If you would like to register an interest please contact us.
We expect commitment from our adults or young people to the particular production that they are part of. For members of ‘Roots’ in particular the level of commitment shown will determine whether we can retain their place as part of the group.
If you’d like to know more please get in touch via the email address below.
Contact Details
Mrs. Liz Collins
players@christchurchunitedcardiff.org.uk