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Original Playwriting Award 2022 – Winners!

Very proud to announce that we won the Original Playwriting Award 2022 at the Oxfordshire Drama Network Drama Festival last night. Huge thanks to everyone involved! If didn’t manage to see the Edinburgh Fringe Preview of In Her Defence at Compton, you can see the real thing in Edinburgh at

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Compton Players productions

Another NODA drama award!

We are delighted that our production of The Ladykillers has been awarded a  NODA Drama Accolade of Excellence. The awards ceremony is on Sunday 19th April in The Electric Theatre, Guildford. This follows our previous successes with NODA awards for Richard III and our two-play production of The Promise and

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Richard III Accolade of Excellence

  We’re delighted to announce that our Platinum Jubilee production of Richard III has been awarded an Accolade of Excellence by NODA!  Director Helen Saxton says “This is the result of a year of hard work and dedication by a brilliant cast and crew – I’m so proud and pleased

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Seal Cove awarded Best New Show Award

  We’re delighted to announce that our November 2015 production of Seal Cove, written and directed by Dave Hawkins, has been awarded the Maurice Spillett Trophy for Best New Show in the NODA South East Region 2016 awards.  Congratulations to Dave and the cast and crew!

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Finally winners at The Wallingford Drama Festival!

  H Connolly is our resident playwright, and The Compton Players have entered the Wallingford Drama Festival numerous times with one of H’s premieres. Proving popular with the audiences, we often scoop the ‘Punters Prize’ (voted for by audience members who attend every night of the festival) but this year,

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Original Playwriting Award 2022 – Winners!

Very proud to announce that we won the Original Playwriting Award 2022 at the Oxfordshire Drama Network Drama Festival last night.

Huge thanks to everyone involved! 🏅🎭

If didn’t manage to see the Edinburgh Fringe Preview of In Her Defence at Compton, you can see the real thing in Edinburgh at the Space on North Bridge (Argyll Theatre) from 22nd – 27th August 2022 daily at 13.25.

Another NODA drama award!

We are delighted that our production of The Ladykillers has been awarded a  NODA Drama Accolade of Excellence. The awards ceremony is on Sunday 19th April in The Electric Theatre, Guildford.

This follows our previous successes with NODA awards for Richard III and our two-play production of The Promise and Murdering at the Vicarage.

Richard III Accolade of Excellence

 

We’re delighted to announce that our Platinum Jubilee production of Richard III has been awarded an Accolade of Excellence by NODA!  Director Helen Saxton says “This is the result of a year of hard work and dedication by a brilliant cast and crew – I’m so proud and pleased to have been a part of it. Thank you everyone!”

Blue Remembered Hills Accolade of Excellence

 

Blue Remembered Hills was our production in April 2016 and it’s won an Accolade of Excellence award in the NODA South East Region 2017 awards. Congratulations to director Eric Saxton and all the cast and crew.

Seal Cove awarded Best New Show Award

 

We’re delighted to announce that our November 2015 production of Seal Cove, written and directed by Dave Hawkins, has been awarded the Maurice Spillett Trophy for Best New Show in the NODA South East Region 2016 awards.  Congratulations to Dave and the cast and crew!

Finally winners at The Wallingford Drama Festival!

 

H Connolly is our resident playwright, and The Compton Players have entered the Wallingford Drama Festival numerous times with one of H’s premieres.

Proving popular with the audiences, we often scoop the ‘Punters Prize’ (voted for by audience members who attend every night of the festival) but this year, we’ve finally done it!  Congratulations to H and the cast and crew on their success!

You can see more about the production here.