Wed 22 October 2025 ➡ Sat 25 October 2025 7:30pm - 10:00pm

The Hall Players

Name: The Hall Players
Start: 2025-10-22
End: 2025-10-25
Location: The Playhouse

at The Playhouse, Preston

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Short Sharp Shocks

by Andy Bennison
Directed by Steve Dobson

Do you lie awake, too afraid to sleep? Then it’s time for Nightmares Anonymous, the self-help group of your dreams. Enjoy four darkly comic tales of mystery, murder, and the supernatural.

Cross Stitcher
Brenda and Jim are trapped in a tiny flat and are slowly getting on each other’s nerves. Who will crack first?

The Last Laugh
Stand-up comic Charlie Chucklebucket prepares for the final night of his farewell tour. There is only one person in the audience, his greatest fan. They both have something to hide.

Uneasy Listening
Tony lives with his mum and yearns for a quiet life. Unfortunately, her taste in music makes peace impossible.

Meat Free
Security guards Katrina and Loz work the night shift at a research laboratory. They fear a break-in from animal rights activists. What they get is far worse.

Doors open at 6.45pm.
Show starts at 7.30pm.
Running time: to be confirmed.

Trinity Square Car Park, located across the road from the theatre, offers free parking to holders of a theatre pass. The pass costs £2 (cash or card) on production of a valid ticket for the current season and allows parking for any evening show during the entire season. Passes are available from the Box Office.

The Hall Players

The seeds of the Amateur Dramatic Society we know now as "The Hall Players" were sown in about 1960 in Preston, Lancashire, when a group of St. John Baptist Church parishioners performed a series of plays at the Broughton School Hall. This helped to raise funds for construction of the Parish Hall where all our plays were held until recently. From these early beginnings grew the idea of forming an amateur dramatic society and this was agreed at a meeting held in the Parish Hall on 7th March 1961. This was followed by the first committee meeting held on April 12th in which the decision was made to call the society, "The Hall Players". On this historic night it was decided that the first production would be the comedy "Quiet Weekend" by Esther McCraken, to be presented in November 1961.

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