Playhouse Creatures: review

This play is a thoughtful and sympathetic exploration of a little-explored subject: the lives and careers of the first female performers to appear on the London stage. It is set in the Restoration period of the seventeenth century and focuses on five women – real historical characters – and their theatrical fortunes in the bawdy, licentious times that followed the overturned Puritan regime of Oliver Cromwell. The play has an all-female cast. Men only materialise […]

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Help us choose our new season

Saddleworth Film Society will be holding is programme planning and AGM meeting tomorrow, Thursday 9th June at 8pm, at the Swan Inn, in Delph. Please come along and help us decide our films for the next 12 months.

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A quick quiz question

ilm Society is sorry to announce the retirement of our wonderful Winter Social quiz compiler- Mr. Jack Schofield, now 85! We would like to thank Jack for his many years of provision of film quizzes, put together in his inimitable way. At the moment we have not yet decided on the format, or date, of this season’s Winter Social. If any member would like to volunteer any ideas, would they please speak to a member […]

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