New Calendar feature added

I have added a calendar to the Valley Theatre website so you can now all organize your diaries around our performances.

Chris Parrinder bio added to website

Chris Parrinder's bio has been added to our website. You can view it here.

More from the last performance

One more photo that mysteriously wouldn't upload to the blog:

John Fairchild as a seeker of sanctuary

Backstage at the latest performance

The latest performance at the Valley Theatre last night went down very well with the audience. Biggest laughs of the night were for "Holiday", a Graham Rhodes standard which is always wheeled out in times of trouble - sterling work from Chris Fairchild who was very convincing, even with script in hand. I particularly liked Karen and Poppy in "Street Corner Girls" - they have a really good rapport which comes across in the performance. I was also very impressed with Debbie's performance in "Bombs Away Dream Babies". The play showed very effectively that sex wasn't invented in the 60s!

I managed to get a few snaps backstage before the show:

Poppy Sherwood getting read for her role as a Street Corner Girl

I didn't ask, they didn't tell!

Chris P as the very image of a WW2 bomber pilot

You'll have to turn up to the performance to see what Karen's wearing under her sweatshirt!

Debbie as the bomber pilot's wife who's not content just to sit at home keeping the home fires burning

Its show time

Just a quick reminder that the latest show at the Valley is tonight. I'll be going along with my camera to dish that backstage dirt!

Photos from Halloween

Had a very enjoyable and successful halloween at Dalby Forest. Over 300 people came to see us on the ghost walk, and the beer and BBQ put on by the foresters afterwards was much appreciated (especially by me as for the first time I wasn't driving and could have a few beers!). Here are some pictures from the day:

Poppy as a bride of Dracula (best heckle from the crowd: "Get a room"! Best thing that Dracula wished he'd said: "You mean, get a tomb!")

Margaret Johnson as a witch

Margaret as a severed head

Steve Green as death

Tony as a very scary cannibalistic imp

Chris Parrinder as a werewolf (werewolf? No! There wolf!)

Rosalind and Florence as some more witches

Margaret Johnson with her hair blowing in the wind

Karen as yet another witch

Fright night in Dalby

We had a very successful night in Dalby with well over 300 people coming to see our slightly silly scariness. I took quite a few pictures which I will be posting in the next few days. For those of you who couldn't make it (and there must be quite a few, since the event was sold out well over a week previously), the next show at the Valley is on Thursday 10th November. See you there