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To date this has been a very successful and busy year. At the end of 2007 we presented several entertainments over the Christmas period which must have been successful since we have been invited back to do the same in 2008. We started off 2008 with a play reading on 23^rd January at Woodmancote New Village Hall, which proved to be very popular with several people joining the group afterwards. We decided to repeat the exercise in April after the All England Once Act Play Festival at the Playhouse.

The play chosen for this Festival was Alternative Accommodation, which everyone liked and we had high hopes for, however, it appeared the adjudicator was looking for something more unusual and colourful, so apart from some nominations we didn’t win anything there. The play was then put in for the GDA one act play festival in Gloucester, which is held at the beginning of June. In March we were asked to do an entertainment for the Tuesday Club at St. Michael’s Hall on 13^th May. It was decided to put together a one act play for one half and an entertainment of poems, readings and songs for the other half. The play chosen was Last Tango in Little Grimley, a well known and very funny play. Somewhere along the line it was decided to put not only Alternative Accommodation in for the GDA one act play festival, but also to put in Last Tango in Little Grimley.

The evening entertainment for the Tuesday Club was very well received as was an entertainment we put on at the beginning of June for the Civil Service Pensioners. This differed from previous events as it was held during the day – but it has shown we are flexible.

At the GDA festival Alternative Accommodation was performed on the first night and received plenty of praise. Last Tango in Little Grimley was the last play on the third night, after a very well performed, original and emotional play. Come the final summing up it was no surprise that the play which preceded Last Tango just about swept the board with all the prizes. However, three of the players in Alternative Accommodation were nominated for best actor or actress and Last Tango came second (or ‘first runner up’ as it is called) – much to our delight.