Award-winning Debryshire theatre group's comedy play

An award-winning Derbyshire theatre company which was launched more than 75 years ago will raise the curtain on a comedy play.

By Gay Bolton

Published 21st Feb 2023, 05:30 BST

Whitwell Players rehearsing for A Bunch Of Amateurs.

Whitwell Players will present A Bunch Of Amateurs, by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, at their village Community Centre from March 1 to 3, 2023, at 7.15pm nightly.

The play centres on a local amateur drama group whose efforts to save their theatre are both helped and hindered by enlisting a washed-up Hollywood star for their production of Shakespeare’s King Lear. There is a little bad language in A Bunch of Amateurs.

Numerous awards have been won by Whitwell Players incuding the East Midlands NODA (National Operatic and Dramatic Association award for best play for both 2018 and 2019.

Tickets cost £8 (booking fee applies) for A Bunch Of Amateurs, available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/whitwellplayersamateurdramatic society