Author: Bazza

“No Sex, Please – We’re British!”

Poster for “No Sex, Please – We’re British!”

Bishopstoke Players’ autumn production this year is the longest-running British comedy, ‘No Sex, Please – We’re British!’.

This riotous comic farce notched up a staggeringly successful sixteen-year run in London’s West End. It premiered in 1971 and ran to 6,761 performances.

Peter and Frances could reasonably expect to look forward to a calm, happy start to their married life. Owing to an innocent mistake, however, they find themselves inundated with dubious material from the ‘Scandinavian Import Company’. Senior bank officials, Peter’s snobbish mother, and a prim, respectable bank cashier become inextricably entangled in the rumbustious events that follow.

Director Barry Kitchen said, “After directing ‘The 39 Steps’ last year, I was looking for another top-notch comedy and what better than ‘No Sex, Please – We’re British!’?”

Performances are in Bishopstoke Memorial Hall on Thursday 28th to Saturday 30th September at 7.30pm. Tickets (available from 1st August) are £8 (£6 for those aged 16 or under) and are available at buytickets.at/bishopstokeplayers, email boxoffice@bishopstokeplayers.uk or phone (07871) 006551.

This production marks Bishopstoke Players’ 70th anniversary and, like all previous productions, proceeds will be donated to the children’s charity ‘Action for Children’.

This amateur production of “No Sex Please – We’re British!” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD.

Success at the Elmbridge Drama Festival

‘Nothing You Can Say’; spring festival entry 2017

We’re delighted to report that one of our young actresses, Ruby Joy, has won the award for “Best Supporting Actor” at the 2017 Elmbridge Drama Festival in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. Congratulations and well done Ruby!

If you haven’t yet seen our production of ‘Nothing You Can Say’, by Peter Yates, you still have time to catch it on Friday 24th March in the Hanger Farm Arts Centre at the Totton Festival of Drama or, if you happen to be in Maidenhead on Friday 17th March, we’ll be performing at the Norden Farm Centre for the Arts.