Pepperpot Players

An Amateur Company
Affiliated to the National Operatic & Dramatic Association

The Pepperpot Players were founded over 25 years ago by Martin Harker and Roger Corbett Milward.  It is an amateur non-profit making organisation and we have members from all surrounding areas, not just Upton including lots of children from Upton Primary School and Longdon St. Mary's Primary School who have been involved in our pantomimes and are also members of the junior Peppercorns group. Each year we donate large sums to local charities such as Upton Community Care, SARA River Patrol, Royal British Legion etc. and have recently held a benefit evening where we raised £500 for Upton in Bloom.  We only keep enough money to pay for hall hire, insurance, scripts and musical scores performing rights, ticket and programme expenses, costumes and props.  We pride ourselves on making fantastic costumes, props and scenery out of scraps and odds and ends.  No-one is paid for their involvement - it is all voluntary and people put an enormous amount of time into every production.  The Pepperpot Players productions have become incredibly popular events and performances are regularly supported by local people throughout the district and visitors to Upton.    Some of our senior members, such as Anne and Martin Harker, Elizabeth Troughton, Mary Cooper and the late Cath Guilding, have performed many self-written social playlets to a wide variety of groups throughout the county. If you would like to join us, we meet for rehearsals on Monday and Wednesday evenings at 7.30 p.m. at Upton's Memorial Hall - everyone is welcome! The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Operatic Society's Production of the Mikado - October 2007 The Darling Buds of May - May 2007. Pre-production pictures by Simon Lusty Pepperpots in Bloom - April 2007       Cheque presentation Sinbad the Sailor - February 2007 The Boy Friend - October 2006       The programme And then there were none - June 2006 Robin Hood - February 2006       Pictures 'What did you do in the War, Dad?', October 2005       Photos of the cast 'Popcorn' May 2005       Pictures rumplestiltskin.com pantomime February 2005 Nunsense II 2004       Pictures       More Pictures 'Allo Allo' June 2004 - Introduction       Pictures       The Cast The 2004 pantomime - Snow White Donation to Noah's Ark Trust The 2001 pantomime - Jack & the Beanstalk Little Shop of Horrors, October 2000 The 2000 pantomime - Cinderella

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