Blairgowrie & Rattray Hub Magazine Winter 2023
The Autumn 2023 edition of the Blairgowrie & Rattray Hub Magazine. The latest news and articles from community groups and the public.
The Autumn 2023 edition of the Blairgowrie & Rattray Hub Magazine. The latest news and articles from community groups and the public.
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BLAIRGOWRIE PLAYERS<br />
It’s panto time again, oh yes it is! <strong>Blairgowrie</strong><br />
Players have produced a local pantomime<br />
every year since 1974, apart from in 2020 due<br />
to the global coronavirus pandemic. This year,<br />
for the first time, we are pleased to present<br />
Once Upon A Time In Pantoland, with lots<br />
of your favourite panto characters, singing,<br />
dancing, hokey-cokeying and really bad jokes,<br />
just what you expect from a great pantomime!<br />
Performances start on Wednesday 6th<br />
December, continuing on Thursday 7th and<br />
Friday 8th, all at 7pm, and on Saturday 9th and<br />
Sunday 10th we have matinee performances<br />
only, starting at 3pm, all in <strong>Blairgowrie</strong> Town<br />
Hall. Our ticket prices have remained the same<br />
again this year – stalls are £10, with under 16s<br />
priced at £8 and all Balcony tickets are priced<br />
at £12. Tickets can be bought either in person<br />
at The Card Gallery in Allan Street,<br />
<strong>Blairgowrie</strong> or online at<br />
www.ticketsource.co.uk/blairgowrieplayers<br />
Any queries can be directed to<br />
blairplayers@btinternet.com There will be<br />
a tuck shop offering teas and soft drinks,<br />
sweets and snacks and once again we will have<br />
Stewart Towers ice cream for sale during the<br />
interval, a panto must!<br />
The attached photo shows it’s not just the kids<br />
who have fun preparing for panto, watch out for<br />
these moves on stage!<br />
done both in terms of funding and also due to<br />
our resident protected bats. We continually<br />
fundraise to pay eyewatering utilities and<br />
insurance costs, and to keep this iconic<br />
building standing as it would quickly fall into<br />
the building at risk category if we didn’t. 2024<br />
is the 200th anniversary of the current Kirk<br />
building and we’d like to keep it going for a<br />
good few more years. We hope to do some<br />
‘Happy 200th Birthday Hill Kirk’ performances<br />
during the year to help with further necessary<br />
restoration.<br />
Our annual Murder Mystery has been a great<br />
success again, The Legacy of Talbot Manor<br />
is this year’s offering, having been staged at<br />
both <strong>Blairgowrie</strong> Town Hall and Bridge of Cally<br />
Village Hall so far, and we are in the process of<br />
booking other dates when we go further afield<br />
‘on tour’. If you can’t make it along this year,<br />
we’ll be back again in August next year with a<br />
new show so watch out, it’s such a fun event.<br />
The early part of 2024 will be taken up<br />
with rehearsals for the annual Scottish<br />
Community Drama Festival of One Act Plays.<br />
The first round of this competitive drama<br />
event takes place in Birnam Arts during the<br />
last week of February involving a variety<br />
of Perthshire clubs. We will stage our own<br />
plays in <strong>Blairgowrie</strong> Town Hall during Spring<br />
2024 so keep an eye on local advertising for<br />
details. Our youth section, Curtains Up, will be<br />
involved in this and are also planning other<br />
productions for 2024 - more information will<br />
be forthcoming on this soon.<br />
Restoration work on our Club base, the Hill<br />
Kirk, is still ongoing, some roof work being<br />
completed in October <strong>2023</strong> to reduce water<br />
ingress. We are restricted in what can be<br />
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