CLUB NEWS Wriggle Valley Players The Wriggle Valley Players amateur dramatics group has been running for over 30 years, over that time producing countless plays and pantomimes to entertain the benefice. With no activity through the lockdowns, members were keen to get back on stage and the Peter Pan pantomime in January this year broke all previous records for ticket sales. Although Covid outbreaks in the cast made rehearsing tricky, and no one knew if it would actually go ahead until the last minute, luckily it did, and received very good feedback from the sell-out audiences. The next pantomime will be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with rehearsals starting in September. Club members normally rehearse on Wednesday evenings at Leigh Village Hall. Their next performance, ‘An evening of short plays,’ will take place at 7.30pm on 15 and 16 July at Leigh Village Hall; the entertainment includes performances by all ages within the club. Tickets are £10 each and include a two-course ploughman’s supper; they are available from www.wrigglevalleyplayers.co.uk or Leigh village hall on Wednesdays 6 and 13 July 7.30pm–9.00pm. The adults will be performing short comedy sketches and a play from the Little Grimley series, ‘Strictly Sex Factor on Ice,’ a side-splitting comedy based on the Little Grimley Amateur Dramatic Society who face yet another threat to their existence – reality TV shows have
ravaged their Saturday night audiences. Never one to take these things lying down, Chairman Gordon has devised a cunning plan to compete head on – their very own live Saturday b l o c k b u s t e r, combining the best of all TV formats. What could possibly go wrong … Our youngest members will be performing a magical tale inspired by the movie, ‘A night in the Museum.’ The exhibits come to life and go on an adventure to save the museum and themselves but is it all too late? The teenage group have been devising their own play influenced by the game and movie Jumanji but, in their version, the most unlikely group of school children get sucked into a game of Cluedo. Can they solve ‘who did it’ so they all get to go home? The younger members have developed and rehearsed their plays with ‘Power of Performing’ run by Amy Parker, which is closely affiliated with the Wriggle Valley Players and runs on a Friday evening in Leigh during term time, for children aged 5 to 17. For more information about the club please contact: wrigglevalleyplayers@ gmail.com Or for more information about the Power of Performing contact: powerofperforming@gmail.com 43
