Past Productions

It is of course always worth remembering the density of history, effort and achievement that the Bart Players have behind them. I'm sure you have seen this list before - in fact I nicked it off the Church website - but just to remind us all - Here it is.

Perhaps you might have a story you might want to share about these productions? Or maybe you have some photographs to share? Please let me know and I will link it all up for the world to see!! If there are any inaccuracies perhaps we could fix them or if there are year references to be added perhaps we could include these??? we could literaly have a page for every play if any of you could be bothered typing up some info!!

E-mail me by clicking HERE if you have anything to add.

Key:

# = AUDF Finals
* = One Act
** = Summer Theatre - Portrush
*** = Little Theatre - Bangor



The Dear Departed *
The Monkeys Paw *
The Make of Dreams *
The Distant Drum *
Crabbed Youth and Age *
Is Life Worth Living ?
The Gentle Rain *
A Husband for Breakfast *
Master Dudley *
Cinderella Up the Beanstalk!
A Distant Relative*
Shall we Join the Ladies *
Wishing Well
Murder at the Vicarage
Watch it Sailor **
The Country Boy
Batchelors are Bold **
The Playboy of the Western World
Boyds Shop
The Dear Departed *
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Diary of Anne Frank
Good Night Mrs Puffin
Hobsons Choice #
Love's a Luxury **
Our Town#
The Telephone Never Rings *
The Waters of Dorian *
The Pen of My Aunt *
The Wrong Flat *
The Happiness of Sarah Chapman*
The Happiest Days of your Life
This Happy Breed #
Doctor in the House
The Corn is Green #
Spring and Port Wine
The Cherry Orchard #
Beside the Seaside **
On Monday Next
The National Health #
Look out for the Catch
The Evangilist
Dry Rot ***
The Three Sisters #
Crown Matrimonial
Me *
Breath of Spring **
The Lark
Black Glacier *
Married Bliss **
Vivat Vivat Regina
A Thousand Clowns
Cupid Wore Skirts **
Old Time Music Hall
Oh What a Lovely War #
The Mating Season **
Me Oul' Segocia *
Titanic
The Odd Couple
Queen's Highland Servant #
Tempests Fire *
Hay Fever
Percy
Hidden Meanings *
O'Flaherty VC *
Tartuffe
Housekeeper Wanted*
Six Men of Dorset
And in the Morning *
Rock-a-bye Sailor
A Resounding Tinkle *
Separate Beds
Busybody **
Heil Belfast #
Murder in Company **
Swan Song *
A Separate Peace *
The Night of the Hairy Elephant **
When we are Married
The Auction in Killybuck **
Posthorn Gallop
Cavel #
Breaking the Silence
The Camels Back **
Oliver
Victorian Evening
Last of the Mohicans *
Christmas Kaleidoscope
School for Scandal
Sailor Beware **
A Month in the Country
Shelter Party
Running Riot
The Last Apache Re-Union
The Happiness of Sarah Chapman *
Trouble and Strife *
Communication Cord
Aladdin
The Chalk Garden
After Magritte *
After the Break *
Cinderella
Happy Birthday Dear Alice
Summer
Last Night of Ballyhoo
Gosforth's Fate *
Confusions
Kevins Bed
Beauty and the Beast
Number One
Treasure Island
The Loves of Cass Maguire
A Tomb with a View **

Mother Goose


Key:

# = AUDF Finals
* = One Act
** = Summer Theatre - Portrush
*** = Little Theatre - Bangor

The New Fairy on the Block

They say competition is good for business. It keeps employees sharp and keen and gets the best productivity out of them.

But imagine how good for business it was for Mz June Silcock when this year out of the blue her fairy status was stripped from her and she was asked to leave her keys, mobile phone and fairy wand on the desk of the Bart Players!!

"Well I was very shocked", said Mz Silcock, of Stranmillis, "I mean I was in my fairy kitchen one day preparing some potions and spells for the good people of BT9 when I received a scroll delivered by carrier pigeon!! It said that I was to be made Queen of Hearts, By order of the Royal Council of Upper Knockbreda!!"

Mz Silcock said that she was excited by her new role and saw it as a promotion rather than a redundancy. "I see it as a promotion rather than a redundancy" she proclaimed earlier this afternoon in a press conference outside Windmill Farm.

"I am looking forward to baking all these Jam tarts which are a vital part of my job description. When it comes to tarts, everyone knows I can't be beaten!!!!"

Tickets are still available and to find out what happens, please click on our online booking form HERE!!!

See You There!!

And Remember..... IT'S A GOOSE!!!!!

Where no goose has gone before...

Well the Panto is off to a flying start and Wednesday night's audience was fantastic!! To rapturous applause from the cast, our audience sang, danced and laughed their way through the first performance of Mother Goose - led we suspect by the "Donal McReynolds Fan Club" in the form of the girls and boys from Methodist College Belfast. The cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed our audience's performance and thought there were some realy fine moments in what they did!!!

Seriously - a big thank-you from all of us to our opening night audience, whose enthusiasm helped enormously!! As opening nights go it was one of the least stressful I've seen and everything was flawless!!

Mr Terry McDermott has been very busy with his wide angle lens and the fruits of his labours can be found HERE. Unfortunately his fancy camera cannot make any of us look any younger but his pictures are a great momento nevertheless!!

Booking form is still online HERE - Hurry though as I am told there are nights close to sell out.

And remember.... IT'S A GOOSE!!!

Mother Goose and the Thunderbirds are GO!!!

You may be wondering what I'm rattling on about. Thunderbirds are go?? Mother Goose?? How are these two related??

Well for the duration of the performance of Mother Goose (being staged THIS WEEK in the Canon Lyndsay Hall at St Bartholomew's Church off the Stranmillis Road) we have enlisted the help of our very own space age and pint sized stars in the form of the "Children of Barts" AKA the THUNDERBIRDS!!!

They will be helping Mother Goose (Wilfie Pyper) to trek her way (via Amarillo) to retrieving her beautiful talented goose and thereby enabling her to retire, a wealthy (if slightly unattractive) woman.

You NEED to come and see this production so come on, pack your bags and get your tickets bought (by clicking here for an online booking form) - Tickets are selling out fast so you need to get your skates on.

Performances are :

Wednesday 13th December 8.00
Thursday 14th December 8.00
Friday 15th December 8.00
Saturday 16th December 2.30
Saturday 16th December 8.00

IT'S A GOOSE!!!!

Mother Goose Rehearsal Change

Gillian Porter has requested that I post the following message regarding Mother Goose :

There will be no rehearsal Thurs 27th Oct.

On Tues 1st November would the following people attend at 7.30 to sort out costumes:

Barney, Michael, Brendan, Ed, Anne Maitland, Sarah, Tess, Terry McDermott and anyone else who is not having a costume made for them.

Generally rehearsals are going well despite the high level of absentees. Can I implore you all to attend rehearsals from now on as there is only a short time until we go on stage. In the meantime learn those lines!

Love Gillian

Cast list for Mother Goose

MOTHER GOOSE


Cast list

Fairy Queen Barbara Jeffers
Queen of Hearts June Silcock
Idle Jack Garvin Tohill
Old Woman Who lives In a Shoe June McDermott
Mother Goose ?????
Knave of Hearts ???????
Jabberwock Norman Turkington
Mad Max Alan Martin
Catchem Donal McReynolds
Skinnem Terry McDermott
Ermyntrude Kerry Burns
Gertrude Louise McWilliams

Jill Lisa Henderson
Man in the Moon Ron Elsdon

· Moon Monsters - The Leader - Brendan Fegan
o Ed Flanagan
o Michael Fee
o Barney Gadd


The parts of Knave, Jill and Gertrude will be played by Lisa Henderson and Louise McWilliams and someone else! I have tried to give parts to people as far as possible, who were not so busy last year. Queen of Hearts has been written in and the moon monster parts have been extended.

Rehearsals begin on Thursday 29th September.

Mother Goose Update

Further reading for 'Mother Goose' to-night 20/09 in the Minor Hall. All those interested please come along and read.

Great Site this.

June

Dame for a laugh???

Gillian has reported a tremendous response to the attendance at the first read through last night (Tuesday) for this years pantomime, Mother Goose.

There was loads of fantastic "talent" there and she is looking forward to a stunning production.

However she is still looking for more people to come forward and offer their services in what ever capacity they can - be it back stage, front of house, costumes or starring on stage!!

If anyone is interested in any area of this production taking place first week in December, Can they please contact Gillian directly on 02890 666763. She would like to hear exactly what you can do.

Finally, no pantomime is complete without a "Dame". She has auditioned some people already and would like to hear from anyone else who may be interested. So if you are male and have ever wanted to wear wigs and tights and a sock stuffed bra but were always too shy to ask, ring Gillian Porter on 02890 666763

Dale Winton , Widow Twankey, Blackpool 2003

Last Night's AGM

At last night's AGM of Bart Players it was announced that there would be readings for forthcoming productions:

Thurs 8th Sept. at 8.00 pm - "The Gathering", a One Play to be directed by David Sloan and entered for the One Act Play Festivals in November 2005

Tues 13th Sept. at 8.00 pm - "Mother Goose", a pantomime to be directed by Gillian Porter and performed Dec. 7th - 10th , 2005

Clearly work for lots of people.Those wishing to be involved onstage should attend the readings. Those who wish to be involved in other ways should let the Directors know asap.
Contacts:

David Sloan davidsloan@utvinternet.com
Gillian Porter gill50p@hotmail.com

Gillian is keen to have as many people as possible involved in "Mother Goose" so if you wish to be involved in any way please e-mail her detailing in what capacity you think you could help, either back stage, front of house, costumes, props or on stage (performance or music)

Cast lists for "Mother Goose" and "The Gathering" will start to appear here after Tuesday so stay posted!!

Getting Started....A New Term

Firstly, to introduce this website, I thought it would be appropriate to firmly place this website in context.

This website is designed as a place for the Bart Players THEMSELVES to visit regularly, catch up on what is happening, plan what will happen in the future, exhibit pictures and accounts of events, discuss ideas and perhaps realise potential in the sense of community and belonging that an organisation such as Bart's can offer.

The authors of this site are you guys!! I will happily post up anything that anyone feels is valid and useful to effectively do all of these things, from appeals for helpers in various projects right through to rehearsal schedules themselves and details of achievements.

This should serve to "back up" the e-mails and mailings that are provided officially from the Bart Players Committee and hopefully better communicate these for everyone.

At the end of each posting there will be space for people to leave their own thoughts or comments and I hope people will therefore speak up and contribute!

My e-mail address is mark.mcguire@btinternet.com. If you have anything AT ALL you wish to share in the way of information, photographs or articles please do not hesitate to e-mail me. Also if I make any mistakes either in factual or grammatical accuracy don't be frightened to shout out.

Information will therefore follow in the order that it is received. The panto "Mother Goose" is only round the corner and more will follow on that I am sure very shortly...

First rehearsal for this is next Tuesday 13th September at 8.00 sharp where Gillian will have a read-through. Don't you miss it...

In the mean time tell everyone in Bart's about this site and lets get on with it. Here's to Autumn and Christmas Season 2005 at Barts.