Join the Peninsula Players as they bring everyone’s favourite characters, Mr. Toad, Mole, Badger and Ratty to life on stage this holiday season. As the second pantomime presented by Peninsula Players, the follies of these woodland creatures will be charming and entertaining as you meet new characters like Dame Twit and her daughter Bonnie Blue, and watch our hero Lancelot steal the show. For young and old alike, your toes will be tapping to original songs and old favourites the entire family will enjoy.

Cast information and future details will be available soon, so keep checking back for more updates!

In a Readers Theater the lines are not memorized but read from a script. Beyond that, there is a wide range of styles. At one end of the spectrum are staged readings complete with sets, blocking and costume changes. The other end of the spectrum has the actors sitting or standing while reading from their scripts. Sometimes a stage manager is used to read important stage directions from the script.

Readers Theaters are easy to do. In general 6 or 8 rehearsals are sufficient, no one has to learn lines, productions require very little in the way of sets, they can be moved easily from night to night and they are very inexpensive to do. They do not take the tremendous time commitment that full productions do, it is an easy way for new actors to gain some familiarity with doing plays. Since actors are not focused on learning lines, more time can be spent on character and theme development. Like anywhere else it is hard to get cast without experience. In Readers Theater, not only do new people get experience, they also are seen by other directors.

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• Reduced price tickets at our new theatre locations
• Advance notice of auditions
  
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• Full voting rights at the PP Annual General Meeting
  
• Invitation to PP Celebrations
  
• Volunteer Opportunities
  
• Free Play Readings
  
• The opportunity to work in community theatre and have a great time.

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• Individual $ 10.00
  
• Family Membership $ 15.00
  
• Students/Seniors $ 5.00
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Bookholding is one of the many behind-the-scenes tasks that help a community theater put on a quality show. It is an essential job, with the primary goals of helping actors learn their lines and keeping rehearsals productive.

Bookholding is an especially good job for newcomers because with a little assistance, anyone can have a chance to learn the terminology and techniques of taking a play from first rehearsal to opening night.

A bookholder is the person who reads along in the script during rehearsals. They have several duties, which may vary depending upon the director's expectations.

Different directors want their bookholders to do different things; it's best to discuss these expectations before rehearsals begin.

Remember to come to the next PP play audition, so you can become a "Bookholder!