It’s the final curtain for Aberdare’s Little Theatre

Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on August 21, 2008

ONE of Aberdare’s most historic buildings is facing demolition to make way for a housing development.
For more than 70 years, local dramatics groups including The Trecynon Amateur dramatic Society and the Aberdare Little Theatre Company have been treading the boards at the town’s Little Theatre.
But now the former engine shed looks set to be knocked [...]

Theatre group saved from the final curtain

Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on May 17, 2008

THE curtain will not fall on a Furness theatre group which feared closure.
Barrow Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society is just two years away from celebrating its centenary, but its players were almost forced to leave the stage forever over a planning dispute.
The society’s chairman Martin Craig feared tonight’s performance of Sweeney Todd at Forum 28 [...]