Outside Edge

Outside Edge

Set entirely in and around a typical English cricket pavilion, this amateur production of Outside Edge brings together five unlikely members of a village cricket team and their partners on the Saturday of a big match. The play opens with Roger, the captain, ordering...
Come On Jeeves

Come On Jeeves

An evening of laughter (Teesdale Mercury) THE Academy Theatre in Gainford is one of the hidden gems in our area and is the home of Gainford Drama Club. Their latest production is a play by P G Wodehouse and Guy Bolton featuring the well known butler Jeeves. On the...
Ladies Who Lunch

Ladies Who Lunch

Audiences on trip around World (Teesdale Mercury) Gainford Drama Club recently took to the stage at The Academy Theatre, Gainford with a production of “Ladies Who Lunch” by Tudor Gates. This intriguing story tells of three ladies in different parts of the...
When We Are Married

When We Are Married

Gainford Drama Club’s 60th Anniversary production When We Are Married, directed by Allan Jones, appropriately portrays another anniversary celebration, this time for the silver wedding of three couples in the West Riding of Yorkshire at the beginning of the twentieth...
There Goes the Bride

There Goes the Bride

Gainford Drama Club”s amateur production of “There Goes The Bride” by Ray Cooney and John Chapman has been entertaining capacity audiences for eight performances. The madcap and hilarious farce had audiences roaring with laughter as confusion and communication...