Belper Short Play Festival Returns
After an absence of four years, the Belper Short Play Festival will return in 2019. Short Play Co-Ordinator Sue Reaney
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Sell Out Play ‘DiVA’ Returns To Town
DiVA, a play by George Gunby, is back in Belper, one year after its last sell out performance. The director,
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Review: Brighton Rock At Derby Playhouse
I went along to Derby Theatre unsure. After all Graham Greene’s novel, written 80 years ago, and the film starring
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Plenty For All At Sixth Belper Arts Festival
The sixth Belper Arts Festival opens on 5 May and runs until 2 June. In between the opening concert featuring
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Nell Gwynn Takes Centre Stage At Belper Arts Festival
Audiences set to be ‘enchanted’ as Nell Gwynn comes to Belper. For a limited run Captive Audience Theatre Company will
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The Belper Passion Returns To Huge Crowds
After an absence of three years, The Belper Passion returned to the streets and churches of Belper, attracting a capacity
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Auditions Open For ‘Bloody Mary’
The reign of Mary Tudor, England’s first Queen Regnant, is to become the subject of a new play by Belper
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Belper Players Bring Back Billy Liar
Belper Players are reviving a classic British comedy from the Sixties at the Strutt Centre in Belper from 18th to
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Keys To Open Belper Arts Festival
Belper Arts Festival will open on May 5 with a special concert at St. Peter’s Church. Irish soprano Margaret Keys
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Crime Fiction and Country Music Collide For “The Other Half”
Mark Billingham and My Darling Clementine will be performing their new collaboration “The Other Half” for the first time at
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Belper Players Tackle ‘Five Tales In Verse’
A selection of traditional folk stories have been brought up to date for the 21st Century for performance by Belper
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Belper Arts Festival Back For Sixth Year
Preparations are well under way for the sixth Belper Arts Festival. It will run from 6 to 28 May 2018.
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Belper Arts Festival: Josh Sly Interview
“Hamp” is a play by John Wilson, directed by Larry Waller. With a stellar cast, a set designed by Andy
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“Mini Comedic masterpiece” We Are Brontë Announced For Belper
Angus Barr and Sarah Corbett are to bring their madcap performance to Belper with ‘We Are Brontë.’ Taking place at
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Marty Ross Returns To No. 28 With New Performance ‘The Storm Bride’
Storyteller Marty Ross is bringing new show ‘The Storm Bride’ to one of his “favourite yarn spinning haunts,” Belper’s No.
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Review: A Servant To Two Masters – Belper Players
Goldoni – The Perfect Antidote To Trumperi! Have events stateside been getting you down recently? Worried about the future? Give
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Marde Hen ‘Light Up’ Their New Play
Further to the success of ‘Late’ and their Eagle Award nominated production ‘Fish & Chips’, and following the recently sold-out
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Classical Clowning In A Servant To Two Masters
Belper Players return with a classic Italian tale of a servant in need of a good square meal. At the
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Anne Boleyn Returns To Melbourne Festival
A new play by Belper writer George Gunby will be staged on the 24th of September as part of Melbourne
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Duffield Set To Come Alive For Arts Festival
Duffield is set to host its inaugural Arts Festival on the 17th & 18th September. Duffield Arts Festival will offer
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Belper Remembers “The Fourteen”: The Battle Of The Somme
Relatives of Private Walter Pepper who died during the first minutes of the Battle of the Somme will attend a
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Be Enchanted by ‘The Thankful Village’
Live & Local, in collaboration with Badapple Theatre, will be performing a new play ‘The Thankful Village’ this week (11th
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World War One Commemoration “The Fourteen” Announced
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM On the 1st July 2016 a commemoration of the first day on the Somme and the
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Oliver Twist: Performed by Red Earth Theatre at Belper School
Belper based Red Earth Theatre will be performing their production of ‘The Remarkable Tale of Oliver Twist’ – based on
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