Hooky Players is an Amateur Dramatic Society in a small Oxfordshire village who enjoy performing plays, mostly comedies, and pantomimes.

(C) Copyright Hooky Players Last updated 26 Jan 2012

 Weather for Banbury and Hook Norton.

     Hook Norton is a rural village in North Oxfordshire, UK that's famous for its fine brewery. Hook Norton (locally called 'Hooky') dates from Saxon times, and has a population of about 2000, who don't. We usually put on two plays a year at the local Memorial Hall (post code OX15 5ND ) a hall which seats a whopping 80 people!               

              This weeks production is our annual Pantomime : -

“Treasure Island”!

written by Alistair Clinton and Directed by John Pickering,

at  The Memorial Hall,  Hook Norton, Oxfordshire

              from Wed. 25^th to Sat. 28^th January, at 7.30 pm.

with a Matinee on Sat. 28^th too, at 2.30 pm!

 Tickets are on sale and selling out fast!

Available from Sheila  on (01608) 730355, prices: £7, concessions £5.

There will be refreshments and a raffle in the interval.

The cast list is on the Rehearsals and Auditions page .

     Here’s your chance to laugh at (with?) our heroes, to boo and hiss the villain (Long John Silver) and gasp at the ineptitude of the sailors of yesteryear ....... all accompanied by real live musicians!

     This classic story has been adapted as a fun-filled pantomime:-

     A strange seafaring man arrives at the Benbow inn and then dies mysteriously after eating the Widow Hawkins nasty specialty  ‘addock a la Hawkins’ and receiving the blackspot from Blind Pew. The Widow discovers a treasure map of the infamous pirate Captain Clapper (seriously).

     The widow, with her son Jim, the Squire and the Doctor recruit a crew and set off on a secret voyage to Treasure Island (that everyone knows about), but little do they suspect that the pirates led by Long John Silver are close-by, masquerading as the ‘honest’ ship’s crew.

      Fortunately Jim overhears the pirates dastardly plans and our heroes escape to Treasure Island. There they discover the castaway Benn Gunn, who reveals that all that glitters is not gold, and that there is no cheese, or treasure. The Squire and Doctor are nearly eaten by cannibal Indians but are saved by marriage to the chief’s oldest daughter.

      Finally good triumphs over evil (just like real life) thanks to a cunning plan thought up by by Jim with the help of the cannibal Indians, who just happen to love Kentucky fried pirate. Our heroes safely return to the Benbow Inn, wiser for their adventure, but not richer.

The Banbury Guardian published an article on our Pantomime last week which you can see on the left or on their website ......

Come along, and enjoy the fun!