About Turn Again Theatre

Turn Again Theatre is a well-established, high-standard amateur dramatic group. We put on 3 productions each year at Holmfirth Civic Centre. In the last years we’ve had fabulous reviews for Bouncers and Shakers, Fawlty Towers, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and The Snow Queen 2012 panto, with sell outs for many of our shows. There were a few complaints about Pride & Prejudice in October 2010, mind you – but only because all nights were fully booked by the week before the show and so many people were disappointed!

As well as our annual Panto, in recent years we’ve also performed well-loved and well-known productions: Talking Heads, Much Ado About Nothing, Fawlty Towers 1 and 2, Memories of to Sir With Love, Dad’s Army but also the more challenging or off-the-wall plays: Animal Farm, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and Misery.

Holmfirth Turn Again Theatre celebrated 20 years in 2006.

The name was adopted in 1986 after the pantomime Dick Whittington, performed with another group, who decided they would not use the Civic Hall in future. After this decision, a group of enthusiasts entered a drama festival under the new name, scooped a double award and put their own money into the initial production in July 1987. The venture was an instant success and the money repaid after the production of “Pinocchio” in January 1988. The first voice ever heard in a TAT production was that of Bill Owen, who recorded the monologue at the beginning of “Robin Hood” in 1987. He later became our honorary president.

Our past productions:

1987 July – Robin Hood, the truth behind the green tights
1988 January – Pinocchio
1988 March – A Reet Good Neet
1988 July – Kid’s Stuff
1988 October – The Creature Creeps
1989 January – The Wizard of Oz
1989 May – Yorkshire Mixture
1989 October – Sweeney Todd – Shock ‘n Roll
1990 January – Aladdin
1990 October – Not With A Bang
1991 January – Sing A Song Of Sixpence
1991 October – Farndale Avenue Murder Mystery
1992 January – The True Adventures of Robin Hood
1992 April – Time to Kill
1992 October – The Crucible
1993 January – Cinderella
1993 April – Brimstone and Treacle
1993 June – One Night Stand
1993 October – Unman, Wittering and Zigo
1994 January – Peter Pan
1994 April – Bouncers and Shakers
1994 June – Gosforth’s Fete
1994 October – Twelfth Night
1995 January – Jack and the Beanstalk
1995 April – A Madhouse in Goa
1995 October – Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell
1996 January – Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
1996 April – Mayor’s Charity Concert (Town Hall)
1996 October – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1997 January – Dick Whittington
1997 April – Blue Remembered Hills
1997 October – To Kill A Mockingbird
1998 January – Treasure Island
1998 May – The Importance of Being Earnest
1999 January – Little Red Riding Hood
1999 April – The Passion
1999 October – Macbeth
2000 January – The Wizard of Oz
2000 June – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Open air shows)
2001 January – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2001 October – Canterbury Tales
2002 January – Aladdin
2002 April – Talking Heads
2002 October – Gasping
2003 January – Cinderella
2003 October – Allo Allo
2004 January – Jack and the Beanstalk
2004 April – Ten Tiny Fingers
2004 October – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
2005 January – Dracular the Pantomime
2005 October – Dad’s Army
2006 January – Alice In Wonderland
2006 May – Our Day Out
2006 October – Much Ado About Nothing
2007 January – Pinocchio
2007 May – Memories of To Sir With Love
2007 October – Fawlty Towers
2008 January – Mother Goose
2008 May – Talking Heads
2009 January – Sleeping Beauty
2009 May – Animal Farm
2009 October – Misery
2010 January – Aladdin
2010 May – Bouncers ‘n’ Shakers
2010 October – Pride and Prejudice
2011 January – The King’s New Clothes
2011 May – Fawlty Towers 2
2011 October – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
2012 January – The Snow Queen