Hartpury Drama Group Newsletter, Extra Extra March 2023.

Secretary : Angela,. Chairman : Dave P,. Treasurer : Ron F,. Committee : Kevin B, Mike C, Richard K, Sue K, Steve J.

Angela Gaskell, Secretary:
email: hartpurydramagroup1973@gmail.com
Address: Nettlecomb House, Highleadon GL18 1HH
Mobile number: 07807 130901

Dear Thesps,
HDG’s Mother Goose panto is almost ready to roll …!

Message from Dave P
We urgently require people to help backstage during the performances. Some of the flats are
very heavy. Volunteers please contact me ASAP. 
dagwoodp5@gmail.com
Thank you
Dave

Message from member, Maxine:
I have set up a new HDG Facebook page and Instagram page. Please visit and join as ‘friends’
and support everything posted with a ’like’. We need to encourage all members to post ‘positive’
comments. Our intention is to have us all get on board in order to attract readership.
Thank you,
Maxine
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The whole of Hartpury and beyond will flock to see HDG’s fiftieth celebratory Mother Goose
panto which promises to be the ultimate chocoholics theatrical feast - full of fun, farce
and surprises that will make you honk out loud.

A free Cadbury’s Buttons Easter egg for each child coming to the show
Mother Goose’s Celebratory cocktail available to adults to purchase at the bar
Ice creams will be available from our ice cream girl, Linda,  during the interval
Come dressed in 70s gear (optional)
Our Easter pantomime promises to be full of fun and musical comedy with surprises that will have
you honking out loud. A cheeky fairytale that is exactly the kind of knockabout entertainment
that we all need right now and you will find it is infectious fun from start to finish.
So scramble eggcitedly to the box office for your tickets to see goblins and ghoulish
ghosties with hefty vocal cords, and impeckably constructed mayhem that will quack up all
those aged between 3 to 93.
Don’t be a goose – book your tickets now.
Box Office 
susanknox@btinternet.com
☎️07817 232276
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HDG promoted our MG production on Nicky Price’s BBC Gloucester Radio Show 3/3/2023

The broadcast can be listened to by visiting our webpage: hartpurydramagroup.org.uk

Take a look at what some of our listeners had to say about the broadcast:

RE: BBC RADIO GLOUCESTER today 3rd March 2023

Great show. Thank you for coming. 
It was great fun to have you here.
Nicky Price (Glos Radio host.)

Great Radio presentation by everyone on 
Radio Gloucester.
That should get FULL houses every night.
Well done to you all.
Trish and Frank

Great show this afternoon. 
You all sounded great and presented 
HDG pantomime MG splendidly.
Chris Gaskell

Well done all! You came across  
enthusiastically and promoted the show brilliantly.
Den and Mo

You all sounded great! Great photo – 
you all came across really well. I 
am sure you will have encouraged lots to buy tickets 
Sue and Robin

Well done with the broadcast. 
You all came across pretty well.
Gill and Richard 

Great broadcast, guys. Well done!
Hayley
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Check out all of our wonderfully generous Mother Goose sponsors who have flocked together
to help us pluckily celebrate our golden jubilee anniversary year 1973-2023:-

To everyone who has sponsored our pantomime from all of us here at Hartpury Drama Group
we give a very big grateful thank you!
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Autumn Production 
Trish G is to direct our HDG autumn 2023 (November 24/25th 2023).
Forthcoming HDG Murder Mystery Dinner Production 

The scene is the green room 90 minutes before Harpers Fashion House launch their new range
“The Siddlington Collection”. Tempers are frayed, but is it enough for murder? 
Audience participation and supper in the interval and canapés and vol-au-vents after the
show make for a good night out.
Cast required: 5 men, 4 women plus a narrator.
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Poem to keep you going

Tom

What a truly unhappy twist of fate—
Brought this Tom homeless to my gate.
From that day forth I ceased to be,
Master in my home and of my destiny.

“Listen up Tom!” I said, “Let’s be clear!
This is my chair and it is I, who sits here!”
He locked his eyes as if to say, “Sup?”
Stone-still Sphinx yawned, staying put.

Tom rules with bold inscrutable pride—
New leadership required! He did decide.
Ousted by coup d'état, He mewed: “Stat!”
Commanding me His head, I must pat.

With dB decibel purr and velvet paw—
In my house, Tom assumed Head of Law.
I became a slave to commands He led,
He even claimed - as of right - to my bed!

In my house noiselessly I creep about—
So as not disturb the cuckoo sprawled out.
Reclining, condescending, feline; laid back,
Neron velvet coat; opaque; jet silky-black.

Stretching lengthily slyly to reach up—
With needled paw to drag down my book;
On my chair sitting with haughty arrogance,
This uninvited Tom rules with dalliance!

With whisker ‘n claw and ardent wish—
His cold heart demands I serve Him fish.
Veiled, inscrutable Egypt-eyed; He hunches, 
Meowing, “Where’s my tuna lunch, Mrs?!”
Gaskell, A.

Cheers,
Angie

Angela Gaskell (HDG   Secretary).