This is just a quick blog post to let you know about a Warm-Up Appeal fundraiser that will be taking place in Autumn next year. It’s called The Little Things You Do Together and will feature songs with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The concert will be co-ordinated and arranged by… Read More »The Little Things You Do Together – September 2017
Synopsis Silly Cow is a slick, razor-tongued satire on the viciousness of tabloid journalism with an ingeniously dramatic dénouement. Doris Wallace has everything a tough tabloid columnist could want: a toy boy, a pretty personal assistant, and the prospect of her own television show. She is a newspaper columnist and… Read More »Silly Cow – audition information
12th-17th September 2016 Written by Ben Elton Silly Cow is a slick, razor-tongued satire on the viciousness of tabloid journalism with an ingeniously dramatic dénouement. Doris Wallace has everything a tough tabloid columnist could want: a toy boy, a pretty personal assistant, and the prospect of her own television show.… Read More »Silly Cow
Review by Richard Fitt 18th March 2016 Romeo and Juliet, perhaps the most famous love story of all time. Everybody knows it and it has of course been performed countless thousands of times over the last 400 years. So what to do with it to make it fresh for your… Read More »NODA review of Romeo & Juliet
Although the cast list seems long, there are really only 11 principal characters. Added to this are a couple of characters “Cannibal Chief” and “Sea Captain” who only make a relatively short appearance but both require good acting skills. The smaller roles were written to provide an opportunity for less… Read More »Sleeping Beauty – List of characters
Review by Richard Fitt 17th November 2015 Sharnbrook are never a group to shirk a challenge and boy do they like to set themselves one. Parade is a musical which is little know and rarely performed and lasted only 89 performances on Broadway. Its theme, based on a true story is… Read More »NODA review of Parade
Performance: 3rd September 2015 Review by Stephen Hayter One of the great joys of being a NODA Regional Representative is seeing a wide range of shows. This mighty privilege is occasionally amplified when a request comes through to go off-the-patch and look at a group on someone else’s turf. Such… Read More »NODA review of Gasping
By Richard Fitt on 12th June 2015 Sharnbook Mill Theatre are a group with a high reputation and high expectations to live up to. I was therefore intrigued to find out how they tacked a show, albeit by the legendary Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, which when launched in 1981,… Read More »NODA review of Merrily We Roll Along
Performance: 19th November 2014 Review by Keith Pendall Sharnbrook Mill theatre is always an interesting place to visit, as the company seem able to adapt any project they undertake to fit this charming venue. A full house for this school edition of, in my opinion, one of the most touching… Read More »NODA review of Miss Saigon: School Edition
Performance: 17th September 2014 Review by Keith Pendall I have to be honest and say that I have never really been a fan of The Bard and his works. On arriving at the Mill Theatre I met the director Barry Thompson who assured me that this was a completely different… Read More »NODA review of Macbeth
