Wednesday 6th September 730pm in the bar We’re please to announce a play read through / audition notice for our fourth show of the season Murder Margaret & Me . The show is directed by Sue Borg and is on from 13th- 20th April and you’ll need to be available for rehearsal 6-8 weeks before show week. Murder Margaret & Me by Philip Meeks Knit one, bash two. Genteel ladies involved with violent murder […]
reproduced from article by Gary Carter in Saddleworth Independent FULL ARTICLE IN SADDLEWORTH INDEPENDENT HOPES are high Delph’s Millgate Arts Centre can break more records with the 2023/24 season that has just been announced. Volunteers at the venue were left stunned when recent show Silver Lining played to 94 per cent full houses, leaving them wondering if similar may have happened before things were logged on computers. But as its 50th anniversary approaches, with special celebrations […]
Review of Bette & Joan I’ve just had the pleasure of catching the new Saddleworth Player’s performance, Bette and Joan, at the Millgate Art Centre in Delph. It is directed by Melvyn Bates and stars Rachel Harrison and Tracey Rontree as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford respectfully. The action of the play takes place in Hollywood during 1962, at the height of the Hollywood actresses renown feud. It takes place in the background of the […]
As the 2022-23 season finally draws to a close after the next season preview on 18th June and with our end of season supper on Friday evening I’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who made a contribution and effort in making it such a success for Saddleworth Players and Millgate Arts Centre There is a small group of around 80 people who have put on plays, films and concerts, […]
Opening Night Review of Silver Lining
Carol Davies is directing Saddleworth Players latest show Silver Lining by Sandy Toksvig… here are her thoughts… When I first read Sandi Toksvig’s ‘Silver Lining’ I was in no doubt that Saddleworth Players should do it. I laughed through my first reading of it and I laughed two years later through the cast read through. Putting it on stage though was an entirely different matter. Shakespeare wrote about ‘the two hour’s traffic of our stage’ […]
Saddleworth Players are implementing some changes to the way we organise ourselves. The problem: COVID closed down all the theatres and when we re-emerged in the recovery season we found that many people who previously were involved didn’t return. For some it was an opportunity to take stock and retire, for others, the lockdowns provided new hobbies and focus and the theatre has slipped in importance. This current Season we’ve attempted to carry on as […]
Tributes have been paid to a man described as a rock by the Saddleworth arts community. Since Kenneth Arthur Deighton MBE, aged 92, died the community have been mourning his loss. He was a founder committee member and director of the Saddleworth Festival of the Arts from 1957 until the festival finished in 2019. A man who always preferred non-stage roles, Mr Deighton was a former President of Saddleworth Musical Society, former president of Saddleworth Players and later […]
How Saddleworth Players saved Delph Village as we know it now
Saddleworth Players at Millgate Arts Centre annual advent calendar 2022 we hope you enjoy opening the doors on the advent calendar bringing back memories from past shows Let’s get this party started Saddleworth Players Youth Theatre… put the kettle on for a brew We’re making a list . We’re checking it twice working off the mince pies We three kings of orient are all I want for Christmas is… It’s Christmas jumper day…. Fred and […]