News and events
LADS set stage for night of laughter
An hilarious farce - Funny Money by Ray Cooney - is the next production of Leyburn Amateur Dramatic Society and is to be staged at Wensleydale School on Thursday, Friday and Saturday October 22, 23 and 24.
The cast is pictured above with producer Carrol Thomas (right).
- Jean is preparing a birthday dinner for her mild-mannered accountant husband Henry. Good friends Betty and Vic are expected any minute and Jean is frantic because Henry is late. When he eventually arrives, Jean finds him not quite the man he used to be. He wants to emigrate to Barcelona immediately and with good reason; the briefcase he accidentally picked up on the Undergroud is stuffed with bundles of £50 notes amounting to £735,000.
What the critics said of the original West End production:
"Farce-lovers are in for two and half hours of inspired, demented bliss" - Sunday Times
"...a mechanical masterpiece of manufactured mirth..." - Spectator
Charity auction cash for African school for blind
The charity Friends of Govi raised more than £3,000 with an auction of art at Tenants auction rooms. The money will help support a school for the blind in The Gambia. For more information about the charity see their website www.friendsofgovi.org.uk
Running For Helen aims for a half million
A charity auction on Saturday 19 September raised £52,000 for Running For Helen - a supporter of Marie Curie Cancer Care. Running For Helen has a target of half a million and has a team running in the New York Marathon on 1 November. The team is led by Gary Verity, whose wife Helen has cancer. If you would like to make a donation click on the link below.Click here to make a donation