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WHAT’S ON
Getting out and about...
‘Hansel and Gretel’
Sunday 26th November, 4pm St James Church, Thrapston
Thrapston Plaza Opera give a ‘semi-staged’ Concert Performance of this well loved fairy tale, set to music in 1893 by the German composer Engelbert Humperdinck. It will be sung in English by our TPO principals and
a choir of local children with wind orchestra accompaniment.
Out picking berries, the young Hansel and Gretel get lost in a dark, haunted forest. They fall asleep under the protection of ‘fourteen guardian angels’ until awoken by the ‘dew fairy’. In the morning light they discover a Witch’s ‘gingerbread house’ and begin to tuck in! The wicked Witch plans to turn the pair into tasty ‘gingerbread men’ but they out-trick her and cast her into her own oven. The spell broken, other children emerge from the forest and are joyfully reunited with their parents.
Families are invited to this production as a preparation for the Christmas season: Adult tickets £10, accompanied children FREE. There will be one interval at which refreshments will be served; the performance will end by 6pm.
Rotary Shoebox Appeal
November 25th in the Plaza at the Christmas Light switch on. We will be fundraising and asking for sponsors for boxes. We will have Christmas log decorations and Tombola. All profit to Shoebox Appeal
Thrapston WI
We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 7.30pm in Thrapston Baptist church, St Paul’s Gardens NN14 4FE.
Visitors are very welcome at a charge
of £5.00 and we try to offer an engaging speaker or activity every meeting along with a raffle and refreshments. This gives us a chance to meet others and make new friends. Northamptonshire WI also makes available a wide range of extra activities open to members and non members, with a full programme for the coming year. If you are needing more information please be in touch.
email : Thrapstonwicontactus@gmail.com
Vincent Davy, Music Director
Tickets available from TPO Box Office: 01832-733586 or on the door on on the website: www.thrapstonplazaopera.com
Thrapston District Historical Society
Thursday, 16th November at 7.30 pm
Thrapston Library Meeting Room Christmas Customs
An illustrated talk by Sharn Matthews Visitors welcome £2.50
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