This year we have had the honour of presenting Ken Sugden with his 20 year NODA Long Service Award. Ken has dedicated 20 years of his life to supporting Horbury Pageant Players in various ways. Ken initially came to help but was very quickly roped into performing on stage debuting as the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. Ken has also spent his fair share of time as many variations of the Dame in our annual pantomimes. Ken remains a hard-working member of the team where he currently designs the backdrops for the shows and works front of house welcoming our many audience members to our performances. We couldn’t be more grateful for Ken’s hard work and dedication to the society. A true HPP Legend!

Horbury Pageant Players recently hosted our first ever Murder Mystery Evening – Who Killed the Mad Scientist? After only 4 weeks of rehearsal the cast took to the stage in front of over 100 people all trying to identify the murderer. Only one team could reign supreme with their investigative skills and identify who killed poor Felix Oppenmeister. Thank you to everybody who came to support the event and took part in the evening. A big shout out to Westgate Common Club for hosting us and allowing us to run our event and The Codfather for supporting us in selling tickets for the event.

We were out and about in Horbury and Ossett as part of our Summer Fundraising in June. We had the privilege of attending Illingworth Park Gala in Ossett, the Horbury Street Fayre and the Horbury Show. We had so much fun with our infamous Hoopla Stall and even brought our Splat the Rat along too. A huge thank you to everybody who came to visit us and had a go at our games. We are so grateful for all of your support. Check our some of our photos below. HOOOOOOOOOOPLAAAAAA!!!!!

Horbury Pageant Players were asked by the Young Futures team at St George’s to help at their Mad Hatter’s tea party for the happy healthy holidays scheme. The Horbury Pageant Players became some of the most iconic characters from the Hatters tea party and alongside Matt from the Magic Matt Show entertained and joined the children in circus skills for a wonderfully whimsical day. Our Mad Hatter skipped into the room full speed with a giant cup of Yorkshire tea, thanking the children for joining him at his tea party! He then proceeded to hijack an unsuspecting child’s seat at the table and started his very merry unbirthday festivities. Our Dame Queen of Hearts had children really getting in the swing of things, offering to chop off her head as soon as she ordered her playing card guards to ‘off with their head’ and who knew the Queen had been hiding such flower stick skills!  Penny was perfection as Alice, gentle, kind, witty and adored by the children, they totally believed she was THE Alice! Alice also displayed her hidden circus skills with plate spinning and flower sticks. Tweedle dum and Tweedle dee were naturally comedic, clumsy, in tune with each other and horrifically hilarious, an actual perfect duo!  The day ended with some magic from Magic Matt and a visit from the white rabbit who for once, wasn’t late for this very important date, with easter eggs for all the children.

Check out some photos of our Pageant Players in action.

We recently had a brilliant evening at our first ever Quiz Night Fundraiser. A great night was had by all with lots of fun games to take part in too. As well as the quiz we enjoyed some Bingo, Lucky 5 and Play Your Cards Right. A huge thank you to everybody who came and supported us and a special thanks to Dan for creating the quiz and running the games. The funds raised will be split between Horbury Pageant Players and the 39th Wakefield Scout Group.