{"id":2707,"date":"2015-09-19T20:08:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T20:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/?page_id=2707"},"modified":"2025-04-15T01:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T01:20:16","slug":"from-little-acorns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/?page_id=2707","title":{"rendered":"From Little Acorns\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"129\" data-end=\"473\">Around 70 years ago, a concert was held at Bramshot Avenue Congregational Church (now the URC), where the Friendship Club performed a one-act play titled <em data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"301\">Tea-Time Tempest<\/em>. Inspired by this early success, the club later hosted its own evening of entertainment featuring two plays. From these humble beginnings, The Alexandra Players were born.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"475\" data-end=\"713\">Since 1966, The Alexandra Players have staged over 100 different productions. Remarkably, only three plays have ever been repeated: <em data-start=\"607\" data-end=\"622\">Blithe Spirit<\/em> (1975 and 2003), <em data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"664\">Absurd Person Singular<\/em> (1979 and 2009), and <em data-start=\"686\" data-end=\"696\">Play On!<\/em> (1988 and 2011).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"715\" data-end=\"912\">Our goal has always been to deliver high-quality live theatre to the local community. Whether dramatic or comedic, our productions aim to amuse, challenge, and engage \u2013 but above all, to entertain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"1073\">In 2013, we were proud to be chosen by the Royal Shakespeare Company to take part in their Open Stages Programme \u2013 the UK\u2019s largest amateur theatre initiative.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100\"><strong>CHAIRMAN<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">Roy Moore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100\"><strong>VICE CHAIRMAN<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">Sue McGeehan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100\"><strong>TREASURER<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">Keith Hartley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100\"><strong>SECRETARY<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">Alex Parker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100\"><strong>WEB MANAGER &#038; PUBLICITY<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"100\">Louise Gaul<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 70 years ago, a concert was held at Bramshot Avenue Congregational Church (now the URC), where the Friendship Club performed a one-act play titled Tea-Time Tempest. Inspired by this early success, the club later hosted its own evening of entertainment featuring two plays. From these humble beginnings, The Alexandra \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/?page_id=2707\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2683,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5436,"href":"https:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2707\/revisions\/5436"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandraplayers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}