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Visit by Council Leader

Our Councillor Arthur Moran brought the Leader of Cheshire East Council and 2 colleagues for a look around the Players Theatre last week.  

Cllr Wesley Fitzgerald (2nd from left) was on a familiarisation visit to the western end of the borough and was taken to all the significant buildings and areas of Nantwich, including ours at One Love Lane.

The councillors expressed their interest in our work and were most supportive of our aims to improve the community facilities in Nantwich by enlarging the theatre and offering the community arts space in the new premises.

PLAYERS WIN AGAIN and again

What a night!  On Friday 6 November our Chairman Jeremy Acklam was given the Visitors' Choice Award 2009 at the dinner hosted by South Cheshire Chamber of Commerce.  This is the second year running we have been voted the Visitors Choice and it is greatly encouraging in this year, the one in which we launched our Theatre Project to raise money to make our theatre even bigger and better.

That same night our President Pat Hough was in Chester at the Trinity Mirror Newspaper Group dinner and she came home with the Award for the Championship Team in South Cheshire (see picture). 

 Thank you to all who played a part in these successes whether staging the plays, running the theatre or voting. 

VIPs at Theatre

Edward Timpson, MP for Crewe and Nantwich, and Cllr Margaret Simon, the first Mayor of Cheshire East and Cllr Edith Williams, the new Mayor of Nantwich Town Council, each attended a performance of Rutherford and Son last week. In each case it was their first visit to the theatre but all expressed a wish to return to see future productions.And in the cast of Cllr Williams it was her first official engagement since her appointment.

Mr Timpson was taken round 1 Love Lane, the next door building recently purchased by members, and could immediately see the benefit the additional space and facilities would offer members and audiences.