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Brent Roots youth drama course (it’s not SBADS)
Brent Roots Drama Games and Life Skills is a course for ages 12-25, starting in January organised by South Brent Old School Community Centre in partnership with South Brent Feoffees.
The Ghost Train heads into the archive
We’ve added The Ghost Train to our on-line archive, with hundreds of photos for you to enjoy.
How do you make the sounds of a train (and what’s the sandpaper for?)
You can’t stage The Ghost Train without the titular train, and 100 years ago they had no choice but to make effects live on stage. For our 100th anniversary we did the same: but just how did we make an impressively realistic train with seemingly random objects, such as a coal bunker, fire extinguisher and […]
The train now departed
Our fourth and last production for 2025 reached its terminus on Saturday night after four dramatic performances at South Brent Village Hall. The revised version of “The Ghost Train” by Arnold Ridley, adapted by Jocelyn and Nicolas Ridley, attracted a modern record number of people in our audience, who seemed to love every performance.
Extra seats added for “The Ghost Train”
Tickets are selling quickly for “The Ghost Train” and after a remarkably full first-night we’ve opened an extra row of seats for our remaining performances to give even more people a chance to catch it. The audience loved our first performance, and were amazed by the set and the live sound effects, with all the […]
Posters for “The Ghost Train”
If you’d like to print off and display one of our posters, or share info about South Brent’s production of “The Ghost Train” on-line, then please feel free to download “The Ghost Train” posters and images below. A4 poster Download a poster ready to print (PDF, 1.9MB) Download a JPEG image of the poster (340kB) […]
“The Cyclops (of South Brent)” added to the archive
We’ve added photographs of “The Cyclops (of South Brent)” to our on-line archive.
Congratulations to ‘The Cyclops’ cast and team
The new SBADS youth group did themselves proud on Saturday 11th October with two lively performances of “The Cyclops (of South Brent)”. Telling the ancient Greek story of Odysseus escaping the clutches of the cyclops Polyphemus, eight talented youngsters wove a captivating tale in front of appreciative audiences.
Tickets on sale for The Ghost Train
Tickets are now available on-line and at the Village Shop in South Brent for the SBADS November production of The Ghost Train.
The Ghost Train
South Brent Amateur Dramatic Society is delighted to present the revised version of this classic comedy thriller by Arnold Ridley (Adapted by Jocelyn and Nicolas Ridley) as our fourth production in our 100th year, running from 20 to 22 November at South Brent Village Hall.