OUR FIRST SHOW TO CELEBRATE OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2025!!

BLUE MURDER AT THE BLUE PARROT!

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Those performing at the Blue Parrot Club will be:

Harry Ferrari – Bill Hansell
Mollie Ferrari – Luci Bland
Ruby Redd-Berring – Helen Lewis
Rose Redd-Berring – Emma Walker
Penny Pincher – Sarah Lee
Suzie Aringa – Helen Robson
Johnny Walker – Jamie Pouw
Guiseppe Dolce – Jake Featherstone
Alice Butler – Phoenix Atherton
Club Singer – Julie Farrow
Detective Inspector Mayday – Giles Webb

Synopsis

It’s the roaring twenties and new nightclubs are opening every week in London.
Despite the buzzing social scene and popularity of jazz music, Soho nightclub owner
Harry Ferrari is trying to find a way to save his club from going under. Also bumbling
around the club is hapless Detective Inspector Mayday, which could be handy,
although he may need the help of the audience when he stumbles upon a murder!

Director – Geoff Herbert
Production Manager – Gerry Mills
If you would like to be involved in any of our backstage/ off stage roles, then please do let us know – committee@hartleyartsgroup.me.uk

In 2025 we are celebrating 50 years of
Hartley Arts Group!!

IMPORTANT DATES FOR 2025

Feb – 21,22,27,28, 1 Mar – Blue Murder at the Blue Parrot
June – 20,21,26,27,28 – Blackadder
October – 24,25,30,31,1 Nov – Woman in White (TBC)

If you want to join us on or off the stage, then make sure you are either a full or associate member of HAG to stay up to date with everything that we are doing. Membership options and details are all on this link – www.membermojo.co.uk/hag

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We are at the Jubilee Hall rehearsing on Tues and Thurs 8-10pm – come and say Hi

YOUR APPOINTMENT WITH SWEENEY TODD AWAITS! BOOKING NOW OPEN!

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Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (NB. Stage play, not the musical version)

Join us for a thrilling theatre show featuring Sweeney Todd, the barber who serves up more than just haircuts!

There will be a 45 minute interval for supper. Please choose your food options when booking your tickets. Will you dare to try one of Mrs Lovett’s famous meat pies?!! – well they are actually prepared by the great team at Signature Catering!

Choose your optional meal from our delicious options – 

Mrs Lovett’s Steak and Ale Pie, with gravy, dauphinoise potato and seasonal vegetables

Honey Roasted Parsnip, Spinach and Cheese Pie, with gravy, dauphinoise potato and seasonal vegetables

Slow Roasted Goan Chicken, Rice and Garlic Naan (GF)

Vegetarian Slow Roasted Goan Curry, Rice and Garlic Naan (GF)

Licensed bar, tea, coffee and confectionary are available to purchase before the show and during the interval.

PLEASE NOTE CURTAIN UP IS 7.30 PM

DON’T MISS OUT ON YOUR APPOINTMENT WITH SWEENEY TODD – BOOK NOW FOR THE BEST SEAT!

Who Killed The Secret Agent

Ah, Moult-Lightly, I’ve been expecting you!’… A 1960’s themed Bond-spoof-murder-mystery that’s guaranteed to leave you both shaken and stirred!

‘Who Killed the Secret Agent?’ contains all the ingredients of James Bond’s early film outings… the glamour, the gadgets and the gaffes. It takes place in 1961 inside the HQ of the British secret service in London. With the Space Race hotting up, both America and Britain are preparing to send their top agents over to Moscow in a bid to infiltrate the Russian’s cosmonaut programme. Enter the darling of the British secret service, Marcus Moult-Lightly! Agent Double O-M-G is daring, charismatic and handsome, yet completely lacking in all tact and modesty. His previous mission has been a shambles and past mistakes hover over him like a ‘Spectre’.

This will be our February play and has now been cast. If you would like to help out in any way please get in touch. contactus@hartleyartsgroup.com

 

Social Evening Play Readings

Wed 19th April 8-10pm, Edward Hall, Hartley Wintney Don’t forget to put this date in your calendar now. We would like to see as many of you as possible. Old friends and new ones too – all welcome. Outside Edge and Northanger Abbey are the 2 plays shortlisted for our October production. Which one will it be?? Come along to help us decide!

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The Results are in!

Thank you to everyone who voted. It was a very close finish and so we will be reading excerpts from the 2 most popular plays as voted for by you.
OUTSIDE EDGE by Richard Harris and NORTHANGER ABBEY by Jane Austen, adapted by Matthew Francis.

Put the date in your diary now – Wed 19th April 8pm. Edward Hall, Hartley Wintney.
Please come along and help us to decide which one will be our October production. Whether you want to act, direct, design set, paint set, operate sound or lighting, make costumes, collect props, help front of house or stage manage – WE NEED ALL OF YOU.

EVERYONE WELCOME – members and non members alike.
Committee members will be there to answer any questions you have about your membership/ how to join/ how to renew or indeed anything else you can think of! So let’s get together and have some fun!

MAKE YOUR MEMBERSHIP MATTER.

Well, lookee here…

First rehearsal for our next production, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, began with a round-table read through of the script. The cast assembled for this production are (clockwise from top left): Annelle (Julie MacDonald), Claire (Margot Konitzer), Truvy (Helen Lewis), Ouiser (Gill Richardson), Shelby (Cat Brazier) and (not shown) M’Lynn (Jo Long). Tickets are available now: www.ticketsource.co.uk/hag

Steel Magnolias

In May we proudly present the comedy-drama by Robert Harling, STEEL MAGNOLIAS.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS is a very funny, often touching and ultimately heart-breaking story about six women who assemble on a weekly basis to primp themselves up, dine on the latest gossip and talk about the men in their lives.

Truvy, a feisty, electric personality owns a beauty shop in Louisiana. It’s from here that the daily comedies and tragedies of her clients is played out. Shelby is a diabetic and getting married to a rich southern hunk of a lawyer. Her mother M’Lynn is bossy, but caring. M’Lynn’s friends include a cast of colourful and dynamic southern women of a multitude of ages and views. Through the views of these different women we see love, apathy, pain, loss, secrecy and a desperate attempt at living a life of happiness. Dreams built and burnt, the power of hope, the love between a mother and her child and the bond that can be so unbreakable between true friends. Their strengths will be sorely tried, their wit often stretched thin and their hearts broken.

A play for all times but especially relevant these days when we live in an era when “nasty woman” is a political rallying cry. The bond between women in Harling’s play is never better.

May 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 at 7:45pm at The Victoria Hall, Hartley Wintney.

Tickets are £16 and include a fish & chips meal. Licensed bar. www.ticketsource.co.uk/hag