Birmingham & District Theatre Guild

14/03/2024

Only 9 Days to go to the start of the 99th BFAME One-act drama festival:

Support your local drama groups 4 plays for just £8 at Highbury Theatre Centre B73 5HD
Tickets only available by emailing [email protected]

Plays being performed on Saturday 23rd March starting at 6pm are:

ADDED IMPACT with
The Selfish Shellfish by David Wood
An entertaining story telling how the shellfish avoid becoming innocent victims of pollution.

Tomorrow Productions with
Save the World by David Titchener
Has Adam really invented a machine which could save the world? The critical question looms, has he thoroughly contemplated the consequences? Does this invention serve the noble cause of saving the planet, or does it inadvertently contribute to the world’s downfall?

Oldbury Repertory with
The Art of Robbery by David Gorton
Two security guards settle in for the night shift not knowing that a team of robbers is coming for a priceless artefact. However, things don’t go to plan for either group.

Encore Theatre with
Swansong by David Titchener
Arranging a funeral is done under immense stress, by loved ones hoping to get it right. Karl knows this and wants to plan his own funeral in advance, yet finds himself grappling with the decision of the perfect music choice. Is ‘Burn Baby Burn - Disco Inferno’ truly an unconventional pick?
Paula, his sister offers advice but unfortunately time is of the essence.

A public adjudication of the 4 plays will take place at the end of the evening by the Chair of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators Paul Fowler

24/01/2022

24/01/2022

Finally after two years!!! We are back in the theatre for our first play since lockdown began!!! Exciting times!!!
Check out our website for more details 😀

18/01/2022

Fantastic event workshop for young people age 10 - 18 to take part in during February half term.

Birmingham District Theatre Guild comes to Highbury for a day of Drama workshops - Playwriting, stage combat, physical theatre & voice work.

26/10/2021

Our new team of reviewers are really looking forward to watching this week! See you there and Break a Leg!
Highbury Theatre

Wishing the cast and crew of Maurice's Jubilee all the very best for their opening night later this evening 🙌🎭 Break a leg everyone!

Maurice's Jubilee runs from Tuesday 19 - Saturday 30 October 2021 (excluding Sundays and Mondays).

Tickets are available online or on the door from the Theatre Box Office

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sutton-coldfield/highbury-theatre-centre/maurices-jubilee/e-jvjeee

📸 by Emily White

30/01/2021

Absolutely loving BBC Radio 2 Musicals Weekend. Tune in when you can. 😎🎫🎟🎭

18/01/2021

GET INVOLVED 🌈

The BBC are looking for people to take part in a mass virtual rendition of "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to feature in Musicals: The Greatest Show 🎶

Find out more 👉 https://bbc.in/3qolzed

13/11/2020

Dear Members and Colleagues,

The current coronavirus pandemic has affected us all and we are not able to take part in the hobby that we love so much in the same way that we did 6 months ago. However, it has given us time to reflect, to come up with some brilliantly imaginative ways of keeping members involved and being a part of a family unit of each individual society.

The small Guild committee have thought long and hard about the future of the BDTG, particularly the BFAME full-length Peripatetic festival which has been running for the last twenty years under the management of Jean and Roger Cunnington. Both the coronavirus and Roger’s untimely death have bought us to a crossroads and we need to ask our membership (YOU) if you want us to continue running this part of the festival.

If we do continue with the Peripatetic there will have to be some changes; there will be a team of reviewers – so you may not always get the same person coming to see your shows (although we would endeavour to have one person who sees all musicals and another who sees all plays) and the geographical area will be restricted to venues in Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield.

Should the Peripatetic Festival continue then we will need new members and a team of reviewers - do you know of anyone willing to become a reviewer?

Being positive and looking to the future our one-act BFAME festival will be taking place at Highbury Theatre Centre in 2022 but, realistically, for the BDTG to continue we need more people on the committee willing and able to take on some responsibility.
So that we can gauge the feeling of our membership, we would be extremely grateful if you could take a couple of minutes to complete the attached form and return it before the end of October. The future is in your hands!

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/QLC7JHJ

Kind regards
Jean (Cunnington)

28/10/2020

Join us on for our first Wednesday matinee when Ratty, Badger, Mole and the impulsive Toad embark on a series of riotous adventures spiralling from Toad's in...