Woodingdean Players

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Our latest pantomime, The Wizard That Was pantomime took place on the 2nd and 3rd April 2022

After an undesirably long break, we were delighted to finally perform our postponed Woodingdean pantomime The Wizard That Was took place on Saturday 2nd April Sunday 3rd April.

Like all the Woodingdean Players pantomimes, The Wizard That Was is a completely home grown production by a group of brilliant people from the local community.

We had the largest cast and crew ever this year and it was great to be able to introduce some new faces as well as delight in the familiar ones.

A huge thank you to Tony Parsons for his wonderful painting that helped us promote this year's event

The Wizard That Was programme

View a selection of images from The Wizard That Was kindly taken by Ann Glyne-Thomas

The Raffle

Raffle prizes were donated by local people and businesses and all proceeds were split between the Martlets Hospice in Hove and The Church of the Holy cross roof fund

Thanks to the Following for their donations:

Paws with a Cause

Co-op - Warren Way Woodingdean

Java Cafe - Warren Way Woodingdean

Lisa Clynch - For her hand made teddies

Annette Boyne

Caroline Reilly

The Tornado - Thanks to Glenn Tolhurst

Nice things people have said about The Wizard That Was

You can keep up to date with us via our Facebook page

Rehearsals under way - October 2021

A selection of images from Peter Pandemonium and ALadIn Woodingdean

Robin Wood, our 3rd Pantomime took place in December 2018.

Over 300 people attended 3 performances on the 22nd and 23rd December

The pantomime was well received - and comments on our facebook page included

'Smashing panto, folks. Can't wait for the next one. '

'Well done all of you! What a fantastic show '

'Thank you all so much for a most wonderful evening, the panto was brilliant'

The money raised from the raffle was donated to the Martlets Hospice.

£100 was also donated to the 19th Brighton Scout group. They are initending to buy additional Scout Hut signage with this donation

We were lucky enough to have photographer Ann Glyne-Thomas in the house, and she has been kind enough to let us use her photos below… if you share them please do credit Ann – it's just the right thing to do

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About Woodingdean Players

We are a community group based in Woodingdean, a village about 3 miles east of Central Brighton. This will be our 3rd Pantomime

We have been delighted that residents of Woodingdean have been so supportive of our shows and overwhelmed by their lovely comments – mainly posted on our facebook page

Robin Wood is a completely home-grown pantomime loosely based on the traditional folk tale. It was written and directed by Jo Weatherall with the help of a fantastic, small and perfectly formed team.

All the actors are based in Woodingdean and many hadn't stepped onto the stage until our first panto in December 2015.If you are interested in joining in the fun – follow us on facebook

Aladin Pantomime

ALadIn Woodingdean is a completely home-grown pantomime loosely based on a middle eastern folk tale. It was written and directed by Jo Weatherall with the help of a fantastic, small and perfectly formed team. All the actors are based in Woodingdean and many hadn't stepped onto the stage until our first panto in December 2016. If you are interested in joining in the fun – follow us on facebook

We were lucky enough to have 2 photographers in the house. Ann Glyne-Thomas and Peter Tierney, They have been kind enough to let us use their photos below… if you share them please do credit the photographer – it's just the right thing to do

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Peter Pandemonium

We staged our first ever show, a pantomime, Peter Pandemonium, in December 2015 at the Woodingdean Scout Hut. There were 2 performances and both were sold out. We were delighted to receive so much positive feedback after our first show. Peter Pandemonium was a family show for everyone from 3 to 103. It was our first ever show, so what we lacked in experience we made up for in enthusiasm.

Woodingdean Players rehearse a the Woodingdean Scout Hut which is located at the end of Old Parish Lane behind Woodingdean Primary School.

You can like us on Facebook

And check us out on Twitter too.

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Rehearsals

We spend Sunday afternoons from mid September rehearsing for the pantomime - rehearsals are pretty hard work but we do try to make sure we have fun too.

If you'd like to be part of the pantomime then please do follow us onfacebook and make sure you come along to our meet and greet - details will be published there.

The rehearsals are two to three hours long and as well as the cast there are many people who turn up week after week to support them. Without their help the panto simply couldn't happen.