Once again SMP have taken part in St. Aldhelms Church’s Festival of Trees.

Local groups from the community are asked to decorate a Christmas tree which leaves the church filled by a plethora of wonderful trees.

If you’re passing why not pop in and see the trees or join the congregation at one of their Christmas services?  We’ll be going to the Carols by Candlelight service on the 20th which starts a 6pm.

Our tree is rather aptly decorated with a Sleeping Beauty theme, complete with the Pricess Aurora asleep on top!  Thanks to Fay and Lisa for doing it for us!

St. Aldhelm’s Church is on the corner of Silver Street and Windmill Road, Edmonton, London, opposite Millfield Theatre and Arts Centre. Postcode for GPS is N18 1PA or a map is here.

This weekend was one of our favourite times of year at SMP HQ…it’s the sparkliest event of the season and the beginning of all that glorious Christmassy community spirit. Yep, you guessed it…Enfield’s annual “Parade of Light”.

This year it was even bigger and better than usual with the added bonus of a new and exciting “Winter Wonderland” in our very own Enfield Town. We had such a great time performing lots of numbers from our panto “Sleeping Beauty” and we drew quite a crowd too…all while our team were preparing our float to take part in the parade that evening.

This year our float was all about our forthcoming production of “Sleeping Beauty” and what a triumph it was! A huge sparkly castle flat held up our bright pink banner & sparkly material adorned all angles of our truck, while head lamps & rope lights, twinkly lights and disco balls all helped to make us visible to the onlookers, but the pièce de résistance has to be our “floaters”, our principle cast that waved their way around the pretty route of Enfield Town on the back of our magical float… the beautiful Princess Aurora herself, accompanied by her dashing Prince Rupert, and The wicked Fairy Malevolent who was matched in magic power only by our three fantastic good Fairies…Flora, Fauna and Merriweather. The brave weather-bearing crowds cheered and waved as they recognised our unforgettable characters and booed at our baddy Malevolent as she threatened to cast a spell with her magical glowing orb. The kids loved our free Sleeping Beauty stickers too, they went down a treat. Needless to say we were all beaming with pride and Christmas spirit as we landed back at the starting point outside the Civic Centre.

A lot of hard graft goes into these fabulous community events by the fabulous Kathy Worrall and all the organisers, and of course within each group that takes part too, lots of hours, sweat and standing in the cold, but it is all totally worth it to see the smile on the crowds faces as their favourite characters roll past, and the sparkly lights of the parade light up this wonderful town we all hold so dear.

We even made it into the local paper – here

Holidays really are coming…

You can book your tickets for Sleeping Beauty here

The whole parade can be seen here:

https://www.facebook.com/tracey.grogan.9/videos/10153690785572570/?theater

https://www.facebook.com/lucy.a.sardinha/videos/o.513230788850595/10153234308333196/?type=2&theater

Tomorrow night we’ll be hosting a Halloween party at the Tile Kiln Lane Wilkinson Scout Hut, Tile Kiln Lane, London N13 6BY

Doors will open at 19:30pm, fancy dress is optional.

For more details visit our facebook event, here.

What a great Monday evening over at SMP HQ, before our usual rehearsal we had the absolute pleasure of attending Hotsteppers Dance Studios “Monster Ball”. St Aldhelms church hall was full to the brim of mini witches and tiny break dancing skeletons, and not only did we get to join in all the fun, we also got to perform to all the students and families too. This year it was a little snippet from our upcoming production of “Sleeping Beauty”, to be performed at The Intimate Theatre this coming January. The students were most welcoming and cheered us all on as we busted out the moves of one of our big dance numbers.

A huge spooky thank you to http://hotsteppersdancestudios.co.uk/ for inviting us back again, and for being so welcoming. We love you guys.

Here’s some pics of us performing at the ball.

Don’t forget you can book your tickets for Sleeping beauty here

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We will once again be participating in the Waltham Forest Festival of Theatre at Chingford Assembly Hall, March 2016. Wahooooo.

Last year was a huge success for us with three very worthy award winners, Wendy Jones, Paul Levy and our Stage Crew and bags of equally worthy nominations. GO SMP!

This year the rather dashing David Bowman will once again be producing the event for us, whoop. David will be hosting a read through and liaising with the festival organisers, and just generally looking after you all, a big thank you to Bowsey : )

We’ll be hosting the first get together on Monday 2nd of November at 7.15pm to work out who will be involved and what we’ll perform.

The specific dates of the festival are 14th to 19th March 2016, your performance would be on just one of these dates and we can specify dates within this week to best suit the majority. There is a results and awards ceremony on the Sat 19th but you are not obliged to attend this.

Rehearsals will generally be on Sunday evenings at Cannon House.

If you would like to be involved in the plays this year, on or off stage, please do get in touch with David, if you haven’t already, either on FB or at david@encoretix.co.uk, and he will keep you in the loop.

Here’s the website for more info, poppets… www.wffot.co.uk

If you’d like to be involved with our next show the read through for our next show Sleeping Beauty will be on the 2nd September 2015.

This will be the night for our read through for our next Pantomime, Sleeping Beauty by Warren McWilliams – Pantomime Scripts

On the night the production team of Christopher O’Shea Director, Mike Benyon Musical Director and Fay McWilliams Choreographer. Will take us through the plans they have for the show.

The team will answer any questions you might have and also let you know all the details you need for the auditions on the 6th & 7th of September.

The read through will be at Saint Monica’s Parish Centre (Cannon House) at 8pm.

See you there!

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