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A comedy written in two parts by Elaine Horne. Then: Set in Bailey’s Hotel, Bognor Regis, the year is 1910. The establishment is run by a very supercilious manager, Mr. Swinton, who is a bully and treats his female staff with disdain. There are comings and goings and shenanigans which all become clear in the […]

THE BOXFORD PANTO 2024! Come and see what’s at the top of the Beanstalk! Jack Potts is a poor farmboy who lives with his mum on a smallholding in Suffolk. Mr Grubbypaws, the evil landlord, is demanding the rent which they don’t have. Mr Grubbypaws’ two henchmen, Ron and Sid, threaten Jack and his mum […]

The ladies return after their triumphant rendition of Charles Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ in 2022 to conquer yet another dramatic endeavour, well not so much ‘conquer’ more ‘massacre’. Their latest venture, ‘We found love and an exquisite set of porcelain figurines aboard the SS Farndale Avenue’, by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr, is set […]

Having been refused entry to heaven it seems as if famous crime writer Jack Cameron and his wife Susie will be spending eternity in their old country cottage. Then along come Felicity and Simon, a young couple still trying to make their mark on the world and looking for a place to live. With little […]

Hello to all you lovely people out there! Well, here we are again, pantomime time is upon us and I can’t believe it! (Oh yes I can)! It certainly doesn’t feel like a year ago that Boxford Drama Group were getting ready to entertain you, but it was – and now all our actors have […]

THE GOOD OLD DAYS! Here is your chance to be taken back to the good old days of Music Hall! In a collaboration between Ward Baker and Boxford Drama Group, we invite you to come and join us for an evening of songs, new and old, melodrama, sketches, comedy and fun! All compèred with flawless […]

By Elaine Horne. BOX RIVER NEWS REVIEW   A MATTER OF WIFE AND DEATH Fans of Agatha-Christie-type murder-mystery whodunnits eagerly awaited the Boxford Drama Group’s March 2023 production of A Matter of Wife and Death and were left guessing right up to the very end as to who the murderer was! Written and directed by […]

THE CHRISTMAS SOLDIER Our panto this year is The Christmas Soldier, directed by Joe Barrett!   BOX RIVER NEWS REVIEW THE CHRISTMAS SOLDIER The annual Boxford Drama Group pantomime is always widely anticipated in and around the benefice. This year’s production of Joe Barrett’s “The Christmas Soldier” was no exception. Last performed by the drama […]

By David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr THE CHRISTMAS CAROL THAT DOESN’T GO QUITE RIGHT! The ladies of Boxford Drama Group once more take on the guise of the ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society (take a breath) in an endeavour to put on a production of A Christmas Carol […]

Boxford’s Pantomime is back! …a romp through Boxford’s Medieval past!   BOX RIVER NEWS REVIEW “I really have no idea what happens in the panto,” writes the author of Boxford Drama Groups 2021 Pantomime, Gareth Price. “I wrote it 18 months ago and have drunk a lot of wine since then. I’m looking forward to […]

Seven mischievous and very tuneful dwarfs guide us through the timeless story of SnowWhite. But this is not the Snow White you would imagine. The Prince has his work cut out to release her from the evil spell of the Wicked Queen. The tale is played out against an ever-moving backdrop, a tapestry of music, […]

Set in the kitchen of Crows Skull Farm in 1954 there are more suspects and more motives than you could shake a stick at – but who actually did it? Outrageous over acting throughout, everyone seems to have been involved. Come along, for one night only and try your luck in this classic Murder Mystery! […]

The family who plays together, slays together! The Tombs family, who can trace their heritage back to the Borgias, are a family of professional assassins. However, as darkness descends can they survive the sudden arrival of uninvited visitors at the family lair of Monument House Hotel and Health Farm? As the evening passes, it appears […]

28th November to 1st December 2018 This years fabulous pantomime! Tickets only £15. (Available from the post office.) Licensed bar. Raffle Christmas supper served in the interval. BOX RIVER NEWS REVIEW This years Drama Group Panto ‘Sleeping Beauty’, was without doubt one of Joe Barrett’s best, but then he could not go far wrong when supported by […]

SEPTEMBER 15th 2018 For one night only! An exciting murder mystery event in Boxford Village Hall. Tickets only £10. (Available from the post office.) Licensed bar. Ploughmans served in the interval. Prize for the best detective! Box River News Review When hotel manager Rex Wilts (Jeremy Morgan) is found dead on the crazy-paving outside his […]

By Elaine Horne Thursday April 26th to  Saturday 28th 2018 A madcap musical comedy! Boxford Drama Group present An Englishman’s home is his Hassle written by Elaine Horne. This tale of dysfunctional family life, mistaken identity, bizarre behaviour and comings and goings. A comedy, a farce and a musical with a twist all rolled into one. Tickets £13.00 for each night include […]

The 2017 Boxford Panto! This year it’s the classic tale of Cinderella. With everything you would expect from Cinders herself, the handsome Prince Charming, Cinderella’s father the bumbling Baron Hardup and not forgetting the outrageous ugly sisters, the Fairy Godmother and the long suffering Buttons plus all the usual suspects, but with a local slant! […]

15th, 16th & 17th June 2017 July to November 1917 saw one of the most costly and, by many, considered pointless battles of WW1 The Battle of Passchendaele. On this, the 100th Anniversary of this battle, the Boxford Drama Group will be paying tribute to those people who took part by performing a brand new Musical, […]

Thursday 30th March – Saturday 1st April 2017 Long before The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong in which an amateur dramatic society experiences the horrors of what can go wrong right in front of a live audience, the fictional Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society have been resolutely presenting plays in which […]

A Very Merry Panto For Christmas! Written & Directed By David Phillips Robin and his merry band, the delightful but penniless Maid Marion and her faithful Nurse, Nora, the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and even a surprising appearance from an unexpected historical character at the end, combine to make a memorable panto for Boxford. Full […]

Box River News Review: Oh La La was the latest production of our very own Boxford Drama Group and despite Derek (I can’t remember my lines) Butler who was to have been a mainstay of the show suffering a fall when climbing up the steps onto the Village Hall stage at the dress rehearsal putting […]

Boxford Drama Group are staging Ronald Harwood’s wonderfully poignant and very funny play Quartet. We may not have the services of Maggie Smith and the other stars of 2012’s film but our actors are all of an age to be residents of the retirement home, in which the play is set! Performances are on Friday […]

A traditional panto with almost all the Drama Group in the cast. Below is a picture of the colourful set.   Box River News Review: Allegedly this Aladdin was a traditional take on the original Aladdin story and featured all of the usual Characters from the Gene to the Princess but of course this had […]

Few, if any of us understood the convoluted script but had great fun doing it! Written and directed by Bill Horne and full of music and laughter.   Box River News Review: Bill Horne, our local Bard, was probably influenced by Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone when He wrote this panto. Elements of the […]

Just like the old BBC quiz we came up with impossible words and defined them whilst also acting out characters from TV sitcoms.

Celebrating 40 years as Boxfords Drama Group. A miscellany of songs, skits and many of our best bits.

A middle aged couple on a first date, a warring couple drunkenly trying to settle their divorce, see a boss and his secretary striking up the unlikeliest of friendships and see a brother almost NOT getting his sister to the church in time. 4 very funny and poignant one act plays, which we delighted our […]

An intriguing comedy of time and space by Alan Ayckbourn. Director: David Phillips

Shortly after her marriage, Mavis Hollister, a villainess if ever there was one, and her lover put into motion their cunning plot to kill her wealthy new husband, Edgar. Meanwhile Edgar catches his new bride telling obvious lies about where she has spent the evening and Mavis is forced to think quickly to concoct a […]

A spooky comedy by Norman Robbins. Director: Jane Lindekam Starring (in order of appearance): Joe Barrett Hannah Carpenter Kerrie McGiven David Phillips Coralie Brown Paul Vella Michael Munn Elaine Horne Georgie Waterson

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Murder Mystery.

The set for Relatively Speaking used the full stage rather than a traditional box set. These drawings are all that exists of Act 1 – A bedsit with a bathroom (behind the pink striped wall and Act 2 The terrace outside the conservatory of a Country House. ACT 1 ACT 2 Greg & Sheila Philip […]

Janice MacMillan doing Puppet on a String Elaine, Denise and Annie doing the Supremes   Will and Denise in Till Death do us Part Elaine Horne in I don’t know what   Jeremy, Jim, Joe and David doing Sgt Pepper!

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Directed by Derek Butler

The black and white picture was taken before an ill judged evening we staged in Boxford Village Hall. A Medieval Banquet complete with a giant hog roast and a script written by Joe Barrett and Will Carpenter. The evening degenerated into farce as none of the cast could remember their lines and everybody, including the […]

‘A Bit of a D Day Do’ was actually staged by The Community Council. Bill and Elaine Horne looking very young Joe Barrett and John Kirby (those were real moustaches)   Looking baby faced is Andrew and Janice Macmillan!

There seem to be no pictures of The Ghost Train which was staged at The Quay.  

The Importance of Being Earnest – staged at The Quay Theatre. Starring Joy Sellers, Coralie Brown, Ann Jervis, Joe Barrett and Will Carpenter. Supporting roles by Carol Harrison, Laurence French, Darren Skinner and Peter Hamnett.

A comedy by William Douglas Home. Tickets were £1.50 adults and £1 children. A 

The cast Coralie Brown and Peter Hamnett

Sue Hands, Carol Harrison, Ann Jervis, Laurence French, Jane Burns, Majorie Hamnett and Peter Hamnett. Directed by John Sellers