york settlement community players

PAST REVIEWS

The York Realist:
'York Settlement Players, a company with a nose for unearthing pearls'
(York Press, October, 2006)

A Laughing Matter:
'All performances are in the range of very good to astonishingly good; most professional ensembles would love to know where you get your supply of perfect comic timing.'
(Email from audience member, March, 2006)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof:
'The Settlement Players deliver exactly as required'
(York Evening Press, October, 2005)

The Philanthropist:
'the performances again set the benchmark for amateur excellence in York. Settlement at their unsettling best'
(York Evening Press, June, 2005)

Acknowledged as 'York's premier amateur theatre company', York Settlement Community Players (YSCP) is a thriving drama society. We have more than 200 contacts, Members, Friends & Supporters and a history dating back to 1922. In the 1950s, the prestige of the company was such that it attracted the membership of local schoolgirl, Judi Dench, and her family.

Where do we perform?
Since December 2000, we've been performing at Friargate Theatre in York, home to the acclaimed Riding Lights Theatre Company and The Studio Theatre at York Theatre Royal.

What sort of plays do we put on?
YSCP mainly produces three plays a year. The play list includes, Relative Values, Ten Times Table, Translations, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Memory of Water, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Laughing Matter, Liaisons Dangereuses and The York Realist, which opened at Friargate Theatre and then successfully transferred to the Studio Theatre, York Theatre Royal. Our most recent production at the Studio was Amy's View by David Hare, a review of which can be found at www.yorkpress.co.uk

YSCP Members have also acted with professional theatre director, Richard Digby Day, in his production of The Last Judgement. These acclaimed performances were part of the York Mystery Plays in 2002 & 2006. Alongside our theatre productions, we continue to hold a very popular charity fund-raising event each Christmas for York Against Cancer.

What else do we do?
Other activities for members include drama workshops, participation in student film productions and a prestigious collaboration with York St John University called C4C (Collaborating for Creativity). YSCP Members are also often invited to audition for other local amateur drama groups or Murder Mystery Weekends.

An exciting recent development has seen us working in partnership with writers from the York branch of Script Yorkshire.

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