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Rehearsals this week For your chance to win a pair of tickets for the first night of DNA / It Snows on Wednesday 20th March, simply answer a question, submit your [...]

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Book tickets for our Double Bill of DNA & It Snows

Dress rehearsal pics from It Snows – the first featured in the double bill! DNA / It Snows – our double bill of National Theatre Connection plays from our award winning [...]

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A Double Bill – ‘DNA’ & ‘It Snows’ Tickets from only £7 for students

Don't miss these two short plays performed by our Youth Theatre. Part of the national corriculum and not to be missed. Tickets are on sale now.

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‘DNA’ and ‘It Snows’ – Two plays performed by the SDC Youth Theatre

March 20 – March 24

DNA by Dennis Kelly

When a group of young friends are faced with a terrible accident, they deliberately make the wrong choices to cover it up and find themselves in an unusually binding friendship where no one will own up to what they’ve done. A play with beautiful words and amazing movement.

It Snows by Bryony Lavery and Frantic Assembly

A small town where nothing ever happens. Winter. Not Christmas. Cameron and Caitlin circle round each other, gangs breathing down their necks. There is a mysterious girl, a posh girl’s party and it is snowing. A physical theatre piece with amazing movement and beautiful words.

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Dead Guilty – Southport Dramatic Club

Dead Guilty is a Murder Mystery production by the SDC

A tense psychological study of guilt and obsession by the author of The Business of Murder, Dead Guilty concerns an attractive young graphic artist whose leg is badly injured in a car crash that occurred when a business associate suffered a fatal heart attack at the wheel.

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Iolanthe – Crosby Gilbert & Sullivan Society

A Comic Opera performed by Crosby Gilbert & Sullivan Society

‘Iolanthe’, or ‘The Peer and the Peri’, opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 25, 1882, three nights after the final performance of Patience at the same theatre, and ran for 398 performances.

Gilbert had taken pot shots at the aristocracy before, but in this “fairy opera,” the House of Lords is lampooned as a bastion of the ineffective, privileged and dim-witted. The political party system and other institutions also come in for a dose of satire. Yet, both author and composer managed to couch the criticism among such bouncy, amiable absurdities that it is all received as good fun.

Both Gilbert and Sullivan were at the height of their creative powers in 1882, and many people feel that Iolanthe, their seventh work together, is the most perfect of their collaborations.

Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd, wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. Phyllis does not know that Strephon is half fairy (his upper half — his legs are mortal!) and when she sees Strephon kissing a seemingly young woman, she assumes the worst. But her “rival” turns out to be none other than Strephon’s own mother, Iolanthe, a fairy — fairies never grow old.

But Phyllis’ guardian, the Lord Chancellor, and half the peers in the House of Lords are sighing after her. Soon the peers and the fairies are virtually at war, and long friendships are nearly torn asunder. But all is happily sorted out, thanks to the “subtleties of the legal mind”.

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The Good Life

The Good Life – Southport Dramatic Club

A Comedy production by the SDC

Remember the Goods – Tom and Barbara, suburban eco-warriors? And their next-door neighbours Margo and Jerry Leadbetter, desperately trying to maintain the Surbiton status quo? Jeremy Sams’s comedy leads the well-loved characters (not forgetting Geraldine the goat) through uproarious  adventures, some old, some new and often (even today) hilariously familiar. This new play celebrates a time when, whatever our differences, we still managed to get on with our neighbours.

Beloved BBC sitcom The Good Life ran on British television from 1975 to 1978 starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington.

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Soul Train – Wayne Kennedy’s SOUL – MOTOWN – DISCO Show with 6 lead vocalists.

May 25

Soul Train will soon steam into Southport and on board will be a feast of fine souful gems

Classic 60s soul – Mod – Motown – 70s Disco and more!

Harking back to the wonderful days when the dance floor was king, performers deliver a fun presentation of 60s and 70s soul classics. From early soul days of Tamla Motown, Stax and Atlantic records though to disco and beyond as the show brings on the good times.

Featured in a fun feel good production are classic hit songs by – Stevie Wonder, Isley Brothers, Supremes, Gladys Knight, O’Jays, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Ike and Tina Turner, Donna Summer, Candi Staton, Whitney Houston, Billy Ocean, Lionel Richie, Tavares and many more great artists that still keep us singing and dancing.

Great atmosphere – wonderful memories and always a fun night out! Show producer and performer Wayne Kennedy goes back to his roots having sold well over one million concert tickets for his theatre shows. The Stage – Superb – Remarkable – Tremendously Entertaining! The BBC – MAGNIFICENT!

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Upcoming Productions

‘DNA’ and ‘It Snows’ – Two plays performed by the SDC Youth Theatre

March 20 – March 24

DNA by Dennis Kelly

When a group of young friends are faced with a terrible accident, they deliberately make the wrong choices to cover it up and find themselves in an unusually binding friendship where no one will own up to what they’ve done. A play with beautiful words and amazing movement.

It Snows by Bryony Lavery and Frantic Assembly

A small town where nothing ever happens. Winter. Not Christmas. Cameron and Caitlin circle round each other, gangs breathing down their necks. There is a mysterious girl, a posh girl’s party and it is snowing. A physical theatre piece with amazing movement and beautiful words.

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Dead Guilty – Southport Dramatic Club

Dead Guilty is a Murder Mystery production by the SDC

A tense psychological study of guilt and obsession by the author of The Business of Murder, Dead Guilty concerns an attractive young graphic artist whose leg is badly injured in a car crash that occurred when a business associate suffered a fatal heart attack at the wheel.

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Iolanthe – Crosby Gilbert & Sullivan Society

A Comic Opera performed by Crosby Gilbert & Sullivan Society

‘Iolanthe’, or ‘The Peer and the Peri’, opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 25, 1882, three nights after the final performance of Patience at the same theatre, and ran for 398 performances.

Gilbert had taken pot shots at the aristocracy before, but in this “fairy opera,” the House of Lords is lampooned as a bastion of the ineffective, privileged and dim-witted. The political party system and other institutions also come in for a dose of satire. Yet, both author and composer managed to couch the criticism among such bouncy, amiable absurdities that it is all received as good fun.

Both Gilbert and Sullivan were at the height of their creative powers in 1882, and many people feel that Iolanthe, their seventh work together, is the most perfect of their collaborations.

Strephon, an Arcadian shepherd, wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. Phyllis does not know that Strephon is half fairy (his upper half — his legs are mortal!) and when she sees Strephon kissing a seemingly young woman, she assumes the worst. But her “rival” turns out to be none other than Strephon’s own mother, Iolanthe, a fairy — fairies never grow old.

But Phyllis’ guardian, the Lord Chancellor, and half the peers in the House of Lords are sighing after her. Soon the peers and the fairies are virtually at war, and long friendships are nearly torn asunder. But all is happily sorted out, thanks to the “subtleties of the legal mind”.

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The Good Life

The Good Life – Southport Dramatic Club

A Comedy production by the SDC

Remember the Goods – Tom and Barbara, suburban eco-warriors? And their next-door neighbours Margo and Jerry Leadbetter, desperately trying to maintain the Surbiton status quo? Jeremy Sams’s comedy leads the well-loved characters (not forgetting Geraldine the goat) through uproarious  adventures, some old, some new and often (even today) hilariously familiar. This new play celebrates a time when, whatever our differences, we still managed to get on with our neighbours.

Beloved BBC sitcom The Good Life ran on British television from 1975 to 1978 starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington.

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Soul Train – Wayne Kennedy’s SOUL – MOTOWN – DISCO Show with 6 lead vocalists.

May 25

Soul Train will soon steam into Southport and on board will be a feast of fine souful gems

Classic 60s soul – Mod – Motown – 70s Disco and more!

Harking back to the wonderful days when the dance floor was king, performers deliver a fun presentation of 60s and 70s soul classics. From early soul days of Tamla Motown, Stax and Atlantic records though to disco and beyond as the show brings on the good times.

Featured in a fun feel good production are classic hit songs by – Stevie Wonder, Isley Brothers, Supremes, Gladys Knight, O’Jays, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Ike and Tina Turner, Donna Summer, Candi Staton, Whitney Houston, Billy Ocean, Lionel Richie, Tavares and many more great artists that still keep us singing and dancing.

Great atmosphere – wonderful memories and always a fun night out! Show producer and performer Wayne Kennedy goes back to his roots having sold well over one million concert tickets for his theatre shows. The Stage – Superb – Remarkable – Tremendously Entertaining! The BBC – MAGNIFICENT!

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