We’re delighted to announce that Hamble Players donated £500 to the Hound Food Bank as our chosen charity for 2022. Thank you so much to all our lovely audience and our fantastic sponsors who helped raise the money
Hamble Players News: Mother Goose 2021 Charity Donations
Hamble Players want to say a huge thank you to the generosity of our Mother Goose audiences last December at the Hamble Player Pantomime, which enabled us to donate £500 to Mountbatten Hampshire and £500 to Southampton Hospitals Charity. Thank you
Mother Goose 2021 Review
The Hamble Players’ latest Christmas show Mother Goose is another testament to their commitment to the noble art of the panto, from bad jokes, silly songs, an outrageously dressed dame and a thigh slapping principal boy to good fairies, hissable…
Sleeping Beauty 2019 Review
For this year’s panto Hamble Players have offered another slice of festive fun to get us in the mood for Christmas. A sharp script with some good topical jokes, beautiful costumes and an excellent use of lighting and sound meant that this was both a treat to the ear as well as the eye…
The Last Talent Show 2019 Review
It is always an interesting experience seeing a new work, since there is no road map to what might follow. It must be similarly interesting for those producing such a work to place their mark on something so pristine and new…
Snow White 2018 Review
It was opening night in panto land for Hamble Players and the augers were good from the start of proceedings with the enchanting Fairy Fortune, every inch the ideal fairy godmother of such tales. At the end of the evening the audience were left with a big smile on their faces having been engaged with a fresh take on panto world courtesy of a witty and nimble script by Alan Frayn…
The Clove Thief 2018 Review
Set in 1569, Beth Flintoff’s fascinating play focuses on the story of three of the most powerful women of the day – Elizabeth I, Queen of England, her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and Beth of Hardwicke, once the richest woman in England, and the person chosen by Elizabeth to play host or jailor to Mary – as told by Rose, the glove thief of the title, who finds herself used by Beth…
Cheshire Cats 2018 Review
Funny, honest and authentic, with something of an emotional punch, Gail Young’s play tackled a potentially tricky subject in an unfussy but sensitive manner. Ostensibly this was the tale of the Cheshire Cats team of Hilary, Siobhan, Vicky, Yvonne and Maggie, and their eleventh-hour replacement for the…
Prepare to Meet Thy Tomb 2018 Review
This comic thriller by Norman Robbins completes the trilogy of plays about the Tomb family, a family of professional or, as it turns out, not so professional, assassins who are described as playing together and slaying together. The evening provided a heady mix…
Pride and Prejudice 2017 Daily Echo Review
There are numerous Austen related events in this bicentenary year of her death and Hamble Players Youth Theatre’s charming production makes a welcome addition. This witty and clever adaptation beautifully distils the complexities of the plot into a series of bite sized scenes, whilst retaining…