Bolsover Drama Group

Members of the group have been hard at work over the past few months helping to organise the group’s costume and props storage areas at the Bannister Chapel in Shuttlewood. The chapel is the group’s largest asset, and acts as both a storage facility for scenery, props and costumes, and as a venue to allow items of scenery to be built and painted prior to relocation to the Assembly Rooms ahead of the group’s shows. Hats and garments labelled and boxed ready for future shows Dawn Blackburn, Lesley Seaston and Angela Mitchell have been busy organising, sizing, cataloguing and cleaning the costumes, hats and other garments owned by the group to enable these to be identifiable for use in the group’s productions, while a donation of cupboards has allowed the props storage area to be extended to allow small props (especially china, bottles, glasses and ornaments used in plays) to be safely stored for ease of discovery. The hard work being undertaken allows the group’s assets to be used to the

We were proud to be recognised at the recent NODA East Midlands regional day, where we scooped a brace of awards for our 2016 productions. Our pantomime, ‘Robin Hood and Babes in the Wood’, was winner in the best pantomime category for district 2 – the eighth time we have picked up the award, and for the second year in a row we were successful in the district 2 best youth production award, for last year’s Youth Section production of ‘Annie’. Being nominated for the awards is a fantastic achievement for the group, and a testament to the hard work put in by the casts and production teams who can celebrate their achievements. The chance to be nominated for awards such as these is one benefit we gain from being affiliated to NODA, the National Operatic and Dramatic Association, who also offer advice, information and workshops to amateur dramatics groups throughout the country.