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A COMMUNITY PLAY FOR THORNBURY AND SURROUNDING AREA

The Wigan Girls     Performed 7th -10th July 2009

There is nothing quite like a play for drawing together people of all ages, skills, and experiences. When Barbie Davies produced the Thornbury Plays for the Millenium, 1000 people became involved and around 2000 people came to witness them. Barbie was delighted to see a similar "coming together" of local people for another community adventure, and one which could help ACT along its way.

The production was "The Wigan Girls" , a wonderful home grown musical which started life as an "A" Level exam piece. It was then expanded by Janet Halfyard now a Senior Academic at The Birmingham Conservatoire. It was orchestrated by Nigel Davies and directed by Barbie at Marlwood School in 1989. It is a piece that has a great deal to commend it. There were hundreds of opportunities for straight acting, singing and or dancing in every sized part possible. The music, a glorious mixture of traditional folk, Victoriana and modern, needed a large orchestra to accompany the 300 strong cast and a production on this scale needed backstage help of every kind; secretarial, floral art, photography, refreshments and publicity.

Now read the review of The Wigan Girls by Loretta Hedges.

      A Project to Build a New Performance and Arts Venue in Thornbury
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Photographs of The Wigan Girls in rehearsal

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   
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