Entertainment Events launches first Petersfield Fringe Festival
2023 Petersfield Fringe Drama Festival
Let's get ready to experience something new and exciting! Join us for the first ever Petersfield Fringe Festival, hosted at Churcher's College and featuring performances from Winton Players, CCADS, Tony Johnson, Charlotte Thomas and Alicia Novak.
Don't miss out on three days of incredible entertainment – each evening will showcase two one-act plays for just £10 per person. The Petersfield Fringe Festival is raising funds for The Rosemary Foundation
Thursday 31 August 2023 - 7:30pm
Act 1: Personal Call – An Agatha Christie radio play presented ‘from the radio studio’ by Winton Players
James Brent receives a chilling telephone call seemingly from beyond the grave. His dead wife, Fay, is waiting for him at the very place she met her grisly end. At his new wife's insistence, they go to meet her as requested and in the process discover a terrifying and disturbing truth.
Act 2: Anorak of Fire - The Life and Times of Gus Gascoigne, starring Tony Johnson
I was born a spotter. Thus, we are introduced to Gus Gascoigne, young, spotty, perpetually cheerful and completely bemused by anything that isn't involved with his sole interest - trainspotting. Touching, ironic and consistently hilarious, Anorak of Fire, which enjoyed a long run at London's Arts Theatre, after the Edinburgh Fringe, is a guaranteed audience-pleaser.
Friday 1 September 2023 - 7:30pm
Act 1: Drinking Companion from ‘Confusions’ by Alan Ayckbourn presented by CCADS
An unsuccessful seduction attempt is depicted in this short play from Confusions, a collection that deals riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, with human eccentricities and the human dilemma of loneliness.
Act 2: Her Big Chance – An Alan Bennet one woman play, starring Charlotte Thomas
Lesley is an aspiring actress who, after a series of unpromising bit parts on television, is offered what she believes to be her breakout role in a new film for the West German market. However, Lesley does not realise that the film is a soft pornographic film. Presented previously by Julie Walters in 1988 and Jodie Comer in 2020, Charlotte will bring her distinctive style to this classic short play.
Saturday 2 September 2023 - 7:30pm
Act 1: Butter in a Lordly Dish – An Agatha Christie radio play presented ‘from the radio studio’ by Winton Players
Sir Luke Enderby, eminent prosecution barrister and seasoned womaniser, bites off more than he can chew, when the case of a serial killer comes back to haunt him. A tense one act thriller that’s contains one of Christie’s most gruesome murders.
Act 2: The Movie Star, The Mother and The Mystic, written by and starring Alicia Novak.
It’s the 1920s. A movie star, a mother and a mystic each tell their story in this solo show performed by Alicia Novak. Infused with the music and sensibilities of the 1920’s jazz age - a time of great prosperity, and great disillusionment, The Mystic, The Mother and The Movie Star will take you back to the dawn of the modern era with its longings, aspirations and struggles
This event is generously sponsored by Velvet & Rose