Synopsis Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King Arthur’s quest to find the Holy Grail. Inspired by the classic comedy film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the musical also diverts a bit from more traditional versions of the legend. Instead, Spamalot features shenanigans including a line of beautiful dancing girls, flatulent Frenchmen, and killer rabbits. Outside, there is plague with a 50% chance of pestilence and famine. Throughout the show, Arthur, traveling with his servant Patsy, recruits several knights to accompany him on his quest, including Sir Bedevere, Sir Robin, Sir Lancelot, and Sir Galahad. Besides the rabbits and farting Frenchman, they meet such characters as the Lady of the Lake, Prince Herbert, Tim the Enchanter, Not Dead Fred, the Black Knight, and the Knights who say Ni.
We welcome all new members, including those who prefer to help out backstage, set building, costume making and front of house duties. We always have fun and often frequent many of the fabulous bars in Battle after rehearsals! Please use the contact form below if you wish to join us!
We rely on our members to keep us going, but the bulk of the behind-the-scenes work – deciding on productions, finding awesome directors, MDs and choreographers, and all aspects crucial to our operations – are done by our committee. These are Chairman: Rob Dyer; Treasurer: Brian Grainger; Secretary: Debbie Scarboro; Wardrobe Mistress: Libby Grainger; Membership Secretary: Lucy Bishop; General Committee: Jo Flay, Adrian Collins, Charlotte Collins, Craig Gibbons, Yvette Cook, Bryan Leggett.
We are very luck to have won two prestigious NODA awards for two of our most recent productions of Made in Dagenham and Fiddler on the Roof. We pride ourselves on performing top class productions to a very high standard.
We found you for the first time last year. Fiddler on the roof. Oh my word, what a fantastic show! Still smile about that evening to this day 😀.
Really enjoyed 'Merrily' - knew nothing about it - a very interesting show and I imagine not an easy one to learn - tricky songs. Clever idea going back in time and I loved 'Our Time'. Well done all.
Gloriously camp, and provocative, Mel Brooks’ smash-hit musical, ‘The Producers’, was everything it promised to be.On a typically chilly night in Battle the musical directed by (Bob Murray) brought us all the glitz, glamour, and sleaze of New York’s Broadway to Battle.
BLOG had pulled the stops out with their production of The Drowsy Chaperone, which is a musical within a musical. The story is related by “Man in Chair” who loves musical theatre and particularly his record of the fictional 1928 production of Drowsy. As he plays it the show comes alive in his living room whilst he wryly comments on the music, the story and the actors.
Battle’s ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ an evening of great music between the lines of the poignant script this production in the roun d truly included the audience in the action. With an amazing twinkle Tevye spoke to us creating an atmosphere of melancholy but with humour too. A n e xtremely well cast of strong characters, with beautiful harmony and wonderful costumes. Chorus movement so well timed kept the continuity flowing. Exc ellent throughout.
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