Superman and friendly ghosts combine for slick and hilarious entertainment. Gainford Drama Club is playing its latest production ‘Laying the Ghost’ by Simon Williams to packed houses. Set in a retirement home for actors, the play opens on the eccentric Freda Deacon, played superbly by Veronica Lowery, as she talks to friendly ghosts. The action

A Kick in the Baubles by Gordon Steel is Gainford Drama Club’s seasonal offering and it certainly hits the spot as an antidote to Christmas.  Lawrence Chandler plays Frank, sharing with the audience his thoughts and feelings on Christmas as his harassed wife Jean (Jean McCann) insists on shopping at 5 am and monitors his

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 his dutiful wife Miriam around the club-house in preparation for the

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 night I was there the play

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 world, who all know one another through their husbands, who are among the

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 century.  The immaculately crafted play concerns itself in typical Priestley style in how the self-satisfied

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 mix ups abound when harassed advertising executive Timothy Royston Westerby (Paul Illingworth) hits his head on the

Stylish show, classy performances (Darlington & Stockton Times) Gainford Drama Club”s spring performance led the audience on a dizzy dash over six decades as characters tried their hardest to stop a double murder. Communicating Doors, by Alan Ayckbourn, moves between 2014, 1994 and 1974. Set in a hotel suite, the characters find themselves travelling through

  They say Christmas brings out the best – and the worst – in every family. Gainford Drama Club”s Autumn production is a timely reminder of the joys and sorrows of the festivities hovering on the horizon. The characters fight, bully, sulk, cry and get far too excited – and the children of the family

Superb drama at Gainford (Darlington & Stockton Times) Playwright Alan Bennett “took up residence” in Gainford, this week where his witty, chirpy and cheeky play Habeas Corpus has been performed by Gainford Drama club in the Academy. For those not up to scratch with legal lingo, habeas corpus is a writ which challenges impnsonment believed