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Our March 2025 play is 'Blackadder 2' from the BBC series.
The award winning group is based in Lytham St Annes near Blackpool in Lancashire.
Once again the quality of our productions has been recognised by NODA with no less than 10 nominations for awards for productions in 2023. For more details CLICK HERE
This site will tell you about us, our productions (past current, and future), how and where to see us (usually Lowther Pavilion), and how to contact us.
Coming up in March 2025
Showing from Wed 19 — Sat 22 Mar 2025
Fylde Coast Players have a cunning plan to take you back to Elizabethan England with Blackadder 2.
The play, adapted from episodes of the original BBC production, is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It sees Edmund, Lord Blackadder, as a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of the Queen while avoiding execution by decapitation, a fate that befell many of her suitors. As ever Blackadder’s ambitions are hampered by his inept sidekicks, the aristocratic Lord Percy and the turnip-loving Baldrick.
Written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, with permission and supporting Comic Relief.
Fylde Coast Players have a cunning plan to take you back to Elizabethan England with Blackadder 2.
The play, adapted from episodes of the original BBC production, is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It sees Edmund, Lord Blackadder, as a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of the Queen while avoiding execution by decapitation, a fate that befell many of her suitors. As ever Blackadder’s ambitions are hampered by his inept sidekicks, the aristocratic Lord Percy and the turnip-loving Baldrick.
Written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, with permission and supporting Comic Relief.
To book tickets for this show CLICK HERE
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Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
Mortimer Brewster, a theatre critic for a New York newspaper, is visiting his two maiden aunts who brought him up in the family home in Brooklyn. Mortimer is about to get engaged to the girl next door Elaine. His aunts are eccentric but kind and generous. His brother Teddy is a little crazy – he thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs the Panama Canal in the cellar – but quite harmless.
When Mortimer discovers a dead body in the window seat, the last thing that occurs to him is it could be the work of his adorable aged Aunts….but they do like to add a little arsenic to their elderberry wine!
The arrival of a third brother, the psychopathic Jonathan, reveals how completely bonkers and homicidal the Brewster family is. Add to the mix, an alcoholic plastic surgeon, some completely inept policemen, an unsuspecting lodger and you have the recipe for an hysterically funny black comedy, which has stood the test of time.
Mortimer Brewster, a theatre critic for a New York newspaper, is visiting his two maiden aunts who brought him up in the family home in Brooklyn. Mortimer is about to get engaged to the girl next door Elaine. His aunts are eccentric but kind and generous. His brother Teddy is a little crazy – he thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs the Panama Canal in the cellar – but quite harmless.
When Mortimer discovers a dead body in the window seat, the last thing that occurs to him is it could be the work of his adorable aged Aunts….but they do like to add a little arsenic to their elderberry wine!
The arrival of a third brother, the psychopathic Jonathan, reveals how completely bonkers and homicidal the Brewster family is. Add to the mix, an alcoholic plastic surgeon, some completely inept policemen, an unsuspecting lodger and you have the recipe for an hysterically funny black comedy, which has stood the test of time.
To learn more about the show CLICK HERE
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International on behalf of Josef Weinberger Ltd. www.mtishows.co.uk | www.josef-weinberger.com