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Drama
In the last few years the church has put on two pantomimes which played to packed houses. The first, The Pied Piper of Hamburger, featured a dastardly plot to overrun the area with a plague of rats and some outlandish efforts to defeat it. More baddies were encountered in Jack and the Giant Sugarsnap in which the heroes had to overcome a series of challenges to recover some stolen treasure from a castle magically hidden in Selly Park. Both pantomimes were written and performed by church members. On a slightly higher cultural plane, a dramatisation of St. John's Gospel powerfully brought to life the events of Jesus' life. Entertainment
Drama is typically well scripted, thoroughly rehearsed and performed to the highest (as far as we can manage) standards. Then there are our entertainment evenings... If you're lucky, you might be treated to a spectacular song and dance routine, some quality music played by our highly able performers, or "Mud, mud, glorious mud" sung by a whole family of hippos. If you're unlucky, you could be confronted with Darth Vader attempting to sing "Bring Me Sunshine" and discovering that he doesn't know the words. The secret is to appreciate the unpredictability of it all. That's how the performers get through it, anyway. Just when it appears that the barrel has been scraped clean, a Karaoke Night pops up to prove that it hasn't. The only excuse that can be offered for these events is that if the performance is bad, we can legitimately blame the audience. These events do keep people off the streets, and they raise money. We also suspect that some people secretly enjoy them. Crafty creators
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