The picture shows ‘Frankenstein’ Director, Kevin, presenting our donation of £3,050 from this year’s productions to Sam, from Action for Children. Since we started in 1947 we are proud to have donated over £80,000. Thank you so much to everybody who has made this possible.

Next production is ‘Hercules’, our January pantomime. There will be a reading on Tuesday 24th September at 7.30pm in Durley Memorial Hall – all welcome! Auditions will take place on Thursday 26th, same time and venue.

Performances will be in Durley Memorial Hall on 23rd – 25th January 2025.

A time-lapse video showing Kim applying make-up to turn Colin into The Creature in our production of ‘Frankenstein’.

We love taking part in one-act drama festivals across the region, and in 2023 were delighted to again receive recognition for our work.

In March, Cameron Caws won the Best Adult Actor award at the Totton Drama Festival for his role in ‘No Easy Road’ by Peter Yates, while director Beth Bowers received the Adjudicator’s Award at the Maidenhead Drama Festival for the same play.

While in October, at the Woking Drama Festival, Lizzie Sellars won The Desmond Holt Memorial Cup for Best Youth Actress for her roles in ‘Tremulous’, by Le Wilhelm, and ‘For the Taking’, by Peter Yates, while ‘Tremulous’ won the Adjudicator’s Award, “for keeping hope going”, reflecting the content of that play.

Congratulations to all involved!!!

JOIN US!

If you are interested in getting up on that stage and showing us what you can do; taking part in one of our drama festival plays or our full-length productions, please do get in touch!

A massive thank you to everyone who supports us by watching our shows!

Not only are they great nights out for you but they also enable us to support our charity Action for Children, which we have supported every year since we were founded in 1947.

Here we present a cheque for £1,000 to a representative from Action for Children after the Thursday performance of ‘Dirty Dusting’ in September 2023.

We’re proud of our heritage and are collecting copies of all our old programmes since we were founded in 1947.  We’re almost there but are missing only 3 programmes, all from the 1950s.  We’d love to complete the set so if you know of any of these programmes from Bishopstoke YLU Players or Bishopstoke Young Leaguers Union (our old names) – maybe found lurking during a house clearance? – please do get in touch as we’d love to make a copy of them:

• 1953 ‘Family Drama’
• 1955 ‘Happy Days’
• 1957 ‘Half Holiday’

All the programmes we do have, along with a myriad of photos, posters and more, can be found in our Past Productions gallery.  Please do have a browse!

Bishopstoke Players are proud to have donated the proceeds from our plays annually to the charity Action for Children (formerly known as the National Children’s Home) since we were founded in 1947. Why not take a look at their work and maybe see if you can support them as well?