Heath Players to perform wedding comedy Confetti at Hatfield Heath Village Hall from March 26 to 29
Audiences are invited to the wedding of the year when the multi-award-winning Heath Players present Confetti later this month.
The hilarious and sharply observed comedy, by Church Langley-based writer Simon Mawdsley, runs for four nights and a matinee at Hatfield Heath Village Hall in a production directed by Jo Gladstone.
Set against the backdrop of a church wedding and reception, Confetti introduces audiences to a cast of unforgettable characters and a plot filled with twists and turns.
Join Tom and Samantha on their big day – but will they make it to the honeymoon or will the weight of unspoken truths shatter their big day?
The champagne flows, façades slip and a cascade of secrets are revealed as two families collide and chaos ensues.
The happy couple are played by Myles Lovell and Georgia Bryson. The rest of the cast, in order of appearance, is Lee Barnes as the photographer, Jordyn Linklater as Trev, Steve Foster as the vicar, Stuart Coombe as Uncle Bob, Gemma Colton as Audrey, Ginny Elliston as Betty, Chrissie Waites as Wendy, Lucy Wood as Tanya, Jodie Randell as Bernard and Noah Stevenson as Bernard.
Performances run from Wednesday to Saturday, March 26-29, at 7.30pm, with a Saturday matinee at 2.30pm. The bar opens 45 minutes before curtain-up. Tickets priced £12 (concessions £10) are available at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/essex/hatfield-heath-village-hall/confetti/e-ddommo. Alternatively, call 0333 666 3366 or buy them in person from Footprint in Hatfield Heath.
In a few years the Heath Players will be celebrating their 60th anniversary.
In the summer of 1967, a young professional actor called Christopher Timothy – who went on to play vet James Herriot in all 90 episodes of BBC TV’s All Creatures Great and Small from 1978 to 1990 – was asked to give a talk to Hatfield Heath Women’s Institute.
His enthusiasm for acting and the theatre proved infectious, and shortly afterwards a small group met to consider presenting a play in the village.
They decided to tackle the thriller Night Must Fall in the spring of 1968. The play was presented in the old village hall, under very difficult conditions, using scenery and lighting ‘borrowed’ from ATV using Chris’s contacts. The Friday evening performance had to be cancelled at the last minute due to a double booking with a dog show!
In late 1969 the group presented Doctor in the House as one of the opening events in the new village hall. From that moment the Heath Players took off.
Growing steadily in numbers, strength and reputation, they became regular entrants in the Bishop’s Stortford Drama Festival, winning awards on several occasions.
Although the Heath Players do not produce the same number of productions as they did, the quality is as high as ever.
Since 2007 they have been presenting plays at the annual Hertford Theatre Week, where they have won awards, and in 2010 they took The Sociable Plover to the national finals and swept the board.
