Keeping the flag flying for 2021
In these most awful of times, Funtington Players have proudly kept the flag flying for amateur dramatics.
They haven’t been able to do what they had planned to do, but they have created new opportunities and kept the group going across a wide range of activities. And they have even started planning a production in memory of Funtington Players stalwart Leafy Scott who died of cancer two years ago, as Players chairman Barbara MacWhirter explains.
“She was one of our members for 20 years and was just coming up for retirement when she was diagnosed with cancer. But she wrote a full-length play that we very much want to put on as a fundraiser.
“She called it something different, but we are calling it Full Moon at the Bridge Street Café. It is about young people… which has stretched us a little. We are slightly older! But we have got a lovely cast together. Leafy’s play has been adapted by Suzie Wilde.
“It is a play about young people, about a girl who runs a café and meets up with a chap by the lift shaft on her way home. It’s set in the café and it is about these people and their relationships.
“Leafy herself said she wanted to reflect her own optimism and her outlook on life. It is a lovely little piece and will be just long enough to do as a fundraiser for the hospice. We were hoping to do it this May or June. We will be hoping to do it perhaps May or June 2021.”
They will also be hoping to pick up a couple of other pieces they didn’t get the chance to do in 2020. www. funtingtonplayers.org.uk.