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Welcome to NODA East

Here in the East, we have around 280 society members and around 180 individual members.

We are here to provide advice on all aspects of amateur theatre in a Region that closely aligns to East Anglia.   Close contact is maintained with Societies by a team of Regional Representatives, whose task is to serve the interests of the Societies and Individual members in their District.  By invitation they will visit shows and prepare a report on the productions that they see.  They are also happy to present Long Service Awards, sit on audition panels and generally serve as the first port of call when assistance is needed.

The National magazine is published on a quarterly basis, and a Regional version is produced twice a year.  It is here that I must announce a rearrangement of our information output.  The Spring 2009 issue of the Regional magazine will have fewer pages, but will retain its style and shape.   It will also include an index of those show reports issued over the previous six months or so, listing by Society and Title, and direct the reader to the NODA East web site where the reports will be found.   This step is being taken in recognition of the increasing use of electronic communication, and also to reduce the increasing costs of printing and distribution.   It is recognised that members without personal access to the website may feel disadvantaged, but it is hoped that such members who have contact with their local Society can obtain a hard copy of particular reports from that source.  If this is not possible please ask your Regional Representative if he/she can provide you with a copy.

John Warburton

Councillor for East Region

We await your call and will be delighted to welcome you on board!

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Links to shows reviewed to the end of January 2009 and in the following lists:-

 DISTRICT 1 Rep - MICHAEL WILLIAMSON FEB 09

Peterborough Operatic & Dramatic Society    A Musical Extravaganza
St Neots Players      The Crucible
The Centre Players Oh, What a Night
Peterborough Gilbert & Sullivan Players  The Mikado
The Music Hall Society  An Evening of Nostalgia
St Ives Music and Drama Society Oliver!
The Wellworth Players Tom. Dick & Harry
Huntingdon Drama Club    Ghost Writer
Peterborough Scouts Gang Show 2008
Peterborough Mask Theatre  The Country Girl
Vamps  Showstoppers 5
The Revellers’ Musical and Dramatic Society Rats!
St Neots Players      A Christmas Carol
Folksworth Players      A Christmas Show
Riverside Theatre Company    Christmas Cabaret
Pantomime’89 Robinson Crusoe
The Centre Theatre Players  Snow White and The Seven   Dwarves
The Upwood Village Hall Panto Robin Hood and The Babes in the Wood
The Offord Players Fantastic Mr Fox

 

 District 2 - Rep Enid Cooper  
FISH2FRY Bedford Sex Tips for Modern Girls
Bedford Marianettes An Evening with Cole Porter

Leighton Buzzard Drama Group

Much Ado About Nothing
Leighton Musical Theatre Company Best of Broadway
Ad Hoc Cold Comfort Farm
Barton Players Inspector Drake's Last Case

Stewartby Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society 

Iolanthe
Showco Jack the Ripper
Bedford Pantomime Company Aladdin
Sharnbrook Mill Theatre Trust Time of my Life
Sharnbrook Mill Theatre Trust  Aladdin

 

District 3 - Rep Nova Horley  
Putteridge Bury G & S Society  “Pirates of Penzance”
Colin Smith Theatre “The Graduate”
Harpenden Light Operatic Society “Chess”
Hemel Hempstead Theatre Company ‘The Accrington Pals’
St Albans Operatic Society “Pirates of Penzance”
Toddington ADS “Night Must Fall”
St Andrew’s Players “When the Curtain Falls”
Act 2 Productions “Fade to Black”
Berkhamsted Theatre Company “Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs”
Colin Smith Luton Youth Musical Theatre “FAME the Musical”
Redbourn Players “Lord Redbourn’s Treasure”
Hemel Hempstead Theatre Company “Jack & the Beanstalk”
Bovingdon Players  “JB & the Top Secret Parrot”
Act One Pantomimes “Cinderella”
Toddington ADS “Red Riding Hood”

 

 District 4S – Rep John Seaman

Littleport Players (Youth) Mugged
Bottisham Players Erica and Me & Black Comedy
Hamdrams Behind the Scenes
Young Nomads Sweeney Todd
Bottisham Players Peter Pan
Haslingfield Little Theatre Maid In China
Bunbury Players Annie
Nomads The Diary Of Anne Frank
Wilburton Theatre Group Mother Goose
Over Players Sleeping Beauty

District  E4N – Rep Jim Farr

 Summary of production reviews in chronological order of attendance.

 The Swaffham Players                                               Love Begins at Fifty

The Angles Theatre Wisbech                                   Boogie Nights

The Wisbech Players                                                 Doctor in the House

King’s Lynn Operatic and Dramatic Society           The Secretary Bird

Downham Amateur Dramatic Society                     Just Like That

Watlington Players                                                      Lady Windermere’s Fan

March and District Amateur Operatic Society         Best of British

The Lavender Hill Mob Theatre Company              Bring It On

King’s Lynn Players                                                    The Witches of Eastwick

Princes Theatre Club                                                 Cause Célèbre

The Angles Theatre                                                    30th Anniversary Celebrations

The Angles Theatre Wisbech                                   Beauty and the Beast

The King’s Lynn Operatic and Dramatic Society   Snow White

The Swaffham Players                                               Jack and the Beanstalk

Wisbech Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society        High School Musical

Watlington Players                                                      Robinson Crusoe

Downham Amateur Dramatic Society                     Sleeping Beauty

 DISTRICT 5 – Rep SUSAN DUPONT  FEB 09

 Dereham O. S.                                                             Mack and Mabel

Cromer & Sheringham A. O.D.S.                              Habeas Corpus

South Norfolk O. S.                                                      The Musical Makers

Norfolk Youth Music Theatre                                     Picnic at Hanging Rock

Mundesley Players                                                      Wyrd Sisters

Wymondham Players                                                 The Ghost Train

Bramrocks                                                                    Little Red Riding Hood

Sheringham Savoyards                                             The Magic Lozenge

Wymondham Musical Theatre Company               The Sword in the Stone

Dereham Operatic Society                                        The Sleeping Beauty

Blakeney Players                                                         Meet the Ancestors

Briston Players                                                            Red Riding Hood

Creakes Drama Group                                              The WonderfuL Story OF Mother Goose

Norfolk & Norwich OS                                                 West Side Story

Mancroft Players                                                          Gaslight

 District 6 - Rep Terry Rymer

 Gorleston Theatre Company                                    Cinderella

Loddon Players                                                           Cinderella

Lowestoft Players                                                        Beauty and the Beast

Pulham Players                                                           Dick Whittington and His Cat

Quaysiders                                                                   Pygmalion

Reydon & Southwold Pantomime Group               Cinderella

Spotlight Musical Theatre Group                              Oh, What a Lovely War

Lowestoft Players                                                        The King & I

Waveney Light Opera Group                                     Calamity Jane

 District 7 – Rep Anne Pickhaver

 Ketton Players                                                              Scrooge The Musical

 District 8 – Rep Stewart Adkins

 Wickham Bishops Drama Group                             Panto at the OK Corral

Danbury Players'                                                         Christmas in Pantoland

Chelmsford Theatre Workshop                                Kind Hearts and Coronets

Trinity Methodist Drama and Music Fellowship    Christmas Concert

Springers                                                                      Noah The Musical

Chelmsford Theatre Workshop                                The Glass Menagerie

CAODS'                                                                         Anything Goes

Ingatestone Musical Operetta Group                      The Music Man

Tollesbury Amateur Players'                                     "Diamonds" Cabaret

Writtle Cards                                                                Seeds of Doubt

Le Panteau, Maldon Drama Group                          The Three Musketeers

Phoenix Theatre Group's                                           Kindly Leave the Stage
Theatre at Baddow                                                      Relative Values
Blackmore Players                                                      When we are married
Chelmsford Theatre Workshop                                The Glass Menagerie

 District 9 Rep - Vicki Avery

 Bossy                                                                             Fame

East Herts Operatic Society                                      Oliver!

Hertford D&OS                                                             ‘Allo ‘Allo

Hitchin Thespians                                                       Calamity Jane

Letchworth Arcadians                                                 Copacabana

Stevenage Lytton Players                                          The Graduate

Cuffley Operatic Society                                             Little Me

Hertford D&OS                                                             Kiss Me Kate

Stevenage Lytton Players                                          Children of Eden

Variety Express

St Pauls Amateur Dramatic Society                         Aladdin

Hertford D&OS                                                             Cinderella

Broxbourne Theatre Company                                 Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood

 District  10  -  Rep Paul Tarrant

 Marlborough Dramatic Club                                      Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

Little Theatre Company                                              Summer Holiday

Leigh O.D.S.                                                                 Jekyll & Hyde

C.D.O.T.                                                                         The Pirates of Penzance

Rayleigh O.D.S.                                                           Puss In Boots

Shenfield O.D.S.                                                          Mack and Mabel

Brentwood O.D.S.                                                        A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum

Thurrock Operatic Society                                          Anything Goes

The New Empire Players                                           My Fair Lady

 DISTRICT 11 Rep - ANN PLATTEN

 Braintree Musical Society                                          Fiddler on the Roof

Clacton A. O. S.                                                            Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Clacton Amateur Dramatic Society                          Play On

Colchester Operatic Society C02                             Summer Holiday

Copford & Easthorpe Dramatic Society                  Cinderella

East Bergholt Dramatic Society                                Comfort and Joy

Making Waves                                                              Cinderella

The Manifest Theatre Group                                     Pack of Lies

Manifest Theatre Group                                             Aladdin

The Orchard Players                                                   The Wizard of Oz Panto

Seaview Players                                                          The Cemetery Club

Sudbury Musicals Society                                          Oliver!

 District 12 – Rep Pamela White

 Company of Four                                                         “Return to the Forbidden Planet”

Co-op Juniors                                                              Christmas Spectacular

Stowmarket Operatic and Dramatic Society          “Babes in the Wood”

Gilbert and Sullivan Society                                       Pirates of Penzance

Gallery Players                                                             “To Kill a Mockingbird”

Ipswich Operatic & Dramatic Society                      “Sounds Familiar”

Mustard Theatre Company                                        Proof by David Auburn

Stage Door Theatre Group                                        South Pacific