A battle between the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood over the custody of the Sheriff’s wards, aided or confused by the village idiot, Tom Piper, his mother, Robin’s Merry Men and the Sheriff’s incompetent deputies.

It’s 1944 and the inhabitants of Lower Duffing are trying to cope with life during wartime. A time when loose talk can cost lives and friends and neighbours might not be all they seem.

The arrival of a journalist to interview Father Ciaran for the local newspaper is only the start of events that will lead to a murder. How will Father Ciaran’s Housekeeper react when her gentleman friend pays too much attention to the attractive reporter? Does the appearance of an unexpected visitor have anything to do with the startling news that Mrs Barton-Vickars brings to Father Ciaran?

It will be up to the audience to decide whodunnit.  There will be a prize for the winning team and for best score in the quiz.

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The 17-year-old Alan Strang blinds six horses with a spike, and is sentenced to be treated by the psychiatrist Martin Dysart.  Under Dysart’s questions, Alan slowly reveals the events that caused him to develop a religious fascination with horses; while Dysart starts to doubt whether changing people to a “normal” way of thinking is always the right thing to do.

Cinderella, the beloved fairy tale and the perfect pantomime story, comes to Englefield Green this Christmas.  Wicked stepmothers, fairy godmothers, ugly stepsisters, charming princes, glass slippers and pumpkin coaches are all here, as well as songs and dances and the worst knock knock jokes ever told on stage.

This Christmas, St Jude’s Players present the classic tale of a handsome prince transformed by a wicked witch into the monstrous Beast.  The curse can only be broken if he can win the heart of the beautiful Belle.  Can these two souls find love with only the help of Mrs Bustle the housekeeper, Ee-gor and Eye-gor the servants, the talking clock Medium-Sized Ben, and you the audience?

A drama group’s auditions for their Christmas pantomime take a dark turn when one of the cast is found murdered.  It will be up to the audience on the night to decide whodunnit.

Based on the book Alan Turing, The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

A compassionate and often amusing play concerning the remarkable mind and tragic fate of Alan Turing, mathematician and computer pioneer who broke the code in two ways.  One was by cracking the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II for which he was decorated by Churchill and lauded by the state.  The second was by shattering the gentlemanly English code of sexual discretion and making little attempt to disguise his homosexuality.  For this he was arrested on a charge of gross indecency.  Whitemore’s play, shifting back and forth in time, constantly seeks to find a connection between the two events and tackles major questions such as the relationship between mathematics and personal morals whilst telling a very good story.

We received very positive reactions from the audience for this show.  Christopher Try said, “Tonight was the first AmDram production I have ever attended and I was amazed.  We are all conditioned by watching professional productions on the TV, and the danger is that we forget that we are not watching the results of highly experienced actors (and actresses, to be old fashioned) supported by teams of professionals.  However the perfomances produced this evening were outstanding.  My congratulations to all of you involved.”

In 2008, St Jude’s Players transported you to the magical world of the Arabian Nights when men were men, women were as expected and genies were the amzing third kind!
The adventure took Aladdin from one life-threatening scrape to another, but he won through and claimed the hand of the beautiful Princess Badroulbadour.  Norman Robbins’ pantomime was full of all the characters and action needed to make St Jude’s Players Aladdin the spectacle of the year.

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