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

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 Weather for Banbury and Hook Norton.

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 now on sale!  ............

.. last few available from Sheila  on (01608) 730355.

Prices: £7 , with 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 treasure. The Squire and Doctor are nearly eaten by cannibal Indians but are saved by marriage to the chiefs oldest daughter.

      Finally good triumphs over evil (just like real life) thanks to a cunning plan by Jim and the help of the cannibal Indians, who just happen to love Kentucky fried pirate.

Finally our heroes safely return to the Benbow Inn, wiser for their adventure, but not richer.

So come along and enjoy the fun!.