founded 1974
Annual General Meeting
Monday April 10th, 2017
6.45pm in the Town Hall
6.45pm – open for refreshments
7.15pm – AGM business begins
Followed by Ann Taylor’s presentation about The Walled Garden Project at the Museum in the Park.
(A copy of the poster can be found here)
Thursday 23rd February
Ramblers Group
led by Allison Hope (see a copy of the poster here)
Our February ramble was a 5 mile walk starting in North Woodchester. We walked through fields and woodland leading up on Selsley Common, where the strong winds from ‘Storm Doris’ made the going quite difficult, until we descended again through the Vineyards leading down to Woodchester Park and South Woodchester. From there we returned to our starting point and then drove back to the Britannia Inn, Nailsworth for our lunch.
More information and photos can be found on our facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/NailsworthSocietyRamblers/
Theatregoers Group
Wednesday 10th May 2017
Malvern Theatre, 2.30pm
(Depart from Nailsworth at 12.30pm)
£40 – Book and pay by 20th February 2017
When a Government Junior Minister plans to spend the evening with one of the Opposition’s typists in the Westminster Hotel, things go disastrously wrong – beginning with the discovery of a body trapped in the hotel’s only unreliable sash window. Desperately trying to get out of an extremely sticky situation, things quickly go from bad to worse.
This stellar company includes Arthur Bostrom, best known for his iconic role as ‘Officer Crabtree’ in classic sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo, as the ‘Hotel Manager’, alongside Shaun Williamson (EastEnders, Extras) as ‘George Pigden’; Sue Holderness (Only Fools & Horses, Green Green Grass) as ‘Mrs Willey’; Andrew Hall (Butterflies, Coronation Street) as ‘Richard Willey’; Susie Amy (Footballers’ Wives) as ‘Jane Worthington’; James Holmes (Miranda) as the ‘Waiter’; Elizabeth Elvin as ‘Nurse Foster’; Jules Brown as ‘Ronnie Worthington’, and David Warwick as ‘The Body’. Completing the cast are Raphael Bar, Simon Murray, and Kate Sawyer.
Recognised as ‘the master of farce’ (The Telegraph), Ray Cooney’s credits also include Run For Your Wife, Funny Money and Move Over Mrs Markham.
Theatregoers Group
Wednesday 15th March 2017
Malvern Theatre, 2.30pm
(Depart from Nailsworth at 12.30pm)
£38 – Book and pay by 26th January 2017
Winner of the 2016 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, Jessica Swale’s blissfully funny Nell Gywnn embarks on its first ever UK tour, direct from critically acclaimed, sell out runs in the West End and at the Globe Theatre.
1660 Drury Lane. Charles II has cast off London’s drab, puritanical past with a love of all things loud, French and sexy. A young Nell Gwynn is selling oranges for sixpence in London’s burgeoning West End theatre scene. Little does she know who is in the audience one fateful night.
Jessica Swale’s warm hearted, bawdy comedy tells the story of an unlikely heroine, who went from lowly orange seller to win the adoration of the public and the heart of the King. Starring Oliver Award nominated actress Laura Pitt Pulford, Nell Gwynn is brought to the stage by English Touring Theatre.
Theatregoers Group
Saturday 25th February 2017
A Passionate Woman
Cheltenham Everyman, 2.00pm
(Depart from Nailsworth at 12.30pm)
£35 – Book and pay by 31st December 2016
Liza Goddard (Bergerac, Yes Honestly) plays Betty, a passionate, doting mum who finds it hard to accept that her son is leaving home to get married.
On the morning of her son’s wedding, Betty retreats to her attic where she relives her long-lost youth and the love affair she had in the 1960s. Surrounded by her memories and ghosts from her past Betty finds herself torn between a husband she never loved, a son about to leave and the man she shared a passionate affair with.
Kay Mellor’s (In The Club, Band of Gold) romantic comedy opens at the Everyman Theatre prior to a national tour to Exeter, Malvern, Guildford, Sheffield, Northampton and Leeds.
