Our Venue:
John Keble Hall. Church Close, Deans Lane, Edgware. Middlesex. HA8 9NS. Directions. Map.
About
The Good Companions ADS have been performing amateur drama at John Keble church in Edgware, Middlesex since 1933. Over the years we have presented all types of drama, as well as large-scale musicals and pantomimes. We are now one of the leading drama groups in the London Borough of Barnet. Each Spring we enter a full length play for the Barnet and District Drama Festival. Last year "A Voyage round my Father" won 6 awards. In the Summer we often do a series of workshops, a Music Hall, or a musical entertainment devised by a member of the group. These activities provide an opportunity for all members to take part. In the Winter we stage our Pantomime or a musical, 'Wind in the Willows', 'Peter Pan' & 'Calamity Jane' being among our recent successes.
We are very fortunate in having permanent use of the John Keble Hall, and members of our dedicated stage crew build our sets. Members not in the cast of a production often help with the building and painting of these. We have an extensive costume department, from which we hire to other groups and private individuals.
As well as our activities on stage we lead a busy social life with visits to see plays presented by other groups in our area. Our barbecues and Christmas parties are always well attended. We have many enthusiastic young members who are always willing to lend a hand in all areas of our work.
We are a friendly Group and consider ourselves Good Companions indeed!
We meet regularly at 8pm. on Tuesdays and offer a warm welcome to new members. Please come along if you are interested in joining or e-mail us.
If you would like to see our next production, details follow.
Our Next Production
Lettice and Lovage
A comedy by Peter Shaffer
at
John Keble Hall, Deans Lane, Edgware
on 22nd to 24th April 2010
Ticket information is not available at the moment but will appear here when it is.
For more information
Email: enquiries@thegoodcompanions.org.uk,
or call: 0845 241 0364
Past productions:
2009; Caught in the Net, California Suite, The Twelve Days of Christmas.
2008; A Voyage round my Father, That's what people ought to be, Robinson Crusoe & the pirates.
2007; Dry Rot, Pardon my French, The Wind in the Willows.
2006; The Winslow Boy, Ernie's Incredible Allucinations, The Monkey's Paw, Beauty and the Beast.
2005; The Pajama Game, We'll meet again, Curtain up on Murder.
2004; Sing a song of sixpence, Letter from the General.
2003; Calamity Jane, 70 years on, The Woman in White.
2002; Ali Baba and the thief of Baghdad, Murder Mystery, Hay Fever.
2001; Peter Pan, A small affair, The Importance of being Earnest.
2000; Jack and the Beanstalk,20th Century story, Little Women.
1999; Carousel, West End to Broadway, Off the Hook.
1998; Ahmad and the thief of Baghdad, Old Time Music Hall, The Odd Couple.
1997; The Sound of Music, Brush up your Shakespeare, Pack of Lies.
1996; The Wizard of Oz, Brush with a Body, The House of Bernarda Alba.
1995; Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, Keep Smilin' Thru', Present Laughter.
1994; Humbug, Under Milk Wood, Steel Magnolias.
1993; Little Miss Muffett, Glad of your Company, Daisy Pulls it off.
1992; Follow the Star, No Coffee for one, Let's go on with the show, Bonaventure, His Grace will be here, From five to five thirty.
1991; Aladdin, An Evening of Elegance, Stepping Out, The Matchgirls.
1990; Blithe Spirit, Plaza Suite, Santa in Space.
1989; The Chalk Garden, Smilin' Thru', The Farndale Avenue Macbeth, Duet for one, Salad Days.
1988; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, Over the Wall, Separate Tables, Round and Round the Garden, Dick Whittington.
1987; The Hollow, Members of the Jury, Showstoppers, Whose Life is it Anyway?, My Gentleman Pip.
1986; The Exorcism, I have Five Daughters, Mother Goose.
1985; The Anniversary, Habeus Corpus, Murder at the Vicarage.
1984; Pinnochio, Local Affairs, Dark Brown, Clara pulls the Curtains, An Evening at the Empire.
1983; Cabaret, Home, Remember When, Outside Edge.
1982; Saturday Sunday Monday, Dry Rot.
1981; One Friday, A View from the Bridge, Cinderella.
1980; Gaslight, Was He Anyone?, Goodnight Mrs Puffin.
1979; Little Red Riding Hood, Juno and the Paycock, A Slight Accident, The Dumb Waiter, The Boy Friend.
1978; Fiddler on the Roof, Uncle Vanya, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte.
1977; Sinbad the Sailor, The Birthday Party, Summer Music Hall, Arms and the Man.
1976; Oliver, Under Milk Wood, Curtain Sideways!, The Happiest Days of your Life.
Authors: Ray Cooney, David Carey, Alan P Frayn, John Mortimer, Kenneth Grahame, John Chapman, Terence Rattigan, Bettine Manktelow, Maurice McLoughlin, Constance Cox, Wilkie Collins, David Swan, Joan Honey, Noel Coward, JM Barrie, Piers Chater-Robinson, Bob Larbey, Oscar Wilde, Mike Tibbetts, Peter Clapham, Louisa May Allcott, Rogers and Hammerstein, Derek Benfield, Neil Simon, Richard Harris, Mary Pakington, Hugh Whitemore, Frank Baum, Jimmy Chinn, Federico Lorca, Tony Edwards, Dylan Thomas, Robert Harling, Rex Walford, Iris Lloyd, Colin Brodie, Denise Deegan, Wally K Daly, Jim Parker, T B Morris, Charlotte Hastings, Philip Johnson, Arthur Lovegrove John Morley, Richard Harris, Bill Owen, Tony Russell Noel Coward, Neil Simon, Paul Reakes, Enid Bagnold, Zerlin & McGillivray, William Shakespeare, Tom Kempinski, Julian Slade, Dorothy Reynolds Constance Cox, Oscar Wilde, James Saunders, Terence Rattigan, Alan Ayckbourne, John Morley Agatha Christie, Stuart Ready, Brian Clark, Jack Sherman, Geoffrey Venis, Charles Dickens, Don Taylor, M McNamara, Jane Austin, Billy McIlwraithe, Alan Bennett, Agatha Christie John Morley, Richard Harris, Philip Johnson, Arthur Lovegrove, Kander and Ebb, Isherwood, David Storey, Richard Harris Eduardo do Phillipo, John Chapman Edmund Banyard, Arthur Millar, Patrick Hamilton, N F Simpson, Arthur Lovegrove Sean O'Casey, James Saunders, Harold Pinter, Sandy Wilson Stein, Bock and Harnick, Anton Chekhov, Tom Stoppard Harold Pinter, George Bernard Shaw Lionel Bart, Dylan Thomas, John Dighton