How it all started
It all started on a wet day, the 16th September 1969, in one of Frant's 3 pubs or may be in all of them. Three prominent citizens of the village, all male, decided they would make the prettiest ugly sisters ever to appear in Cinderella. So it all started with Iris Glover writing and producing the show which was performed in Jan 1970. Ticket Sales were some £58.80 and at the end of the first year the Society were in credit by £23.25.
The first rules of the Society were not written until March 1972. Aladdin was performed in 1971 and the following year the first play was produced. By 1979 the Society's funds stood at over £230 and a new venture had been tried, life size Punch & Judy in a booth which was performed with great
success at Village Fetes.
The big move forward for the Society, certainly financially came in Dec 1981 when the first Old Time Music Hall was performed with a profit of over £300 the Society could now afford to get more ambitious.
Improvements to the Village Hall were funded by the Society including new curtains, new stage blocks, right up to the present day where we have raised the proscenium arch, provided new, comfortable, seating and installed a loop system.
A pattern developed where a Pantomime or a Music Hall were performed in alternate December's with a play produced in the April.
In 2006 we upgraded our sound system and this was followed 2 years later by the installation of a loop system for the hard of hearing. In 2007 we bought and donated 120 padded chairs to the Memorial Hall in Frant to replace the extremely uncomfortable plastic ones which were there. This came as a welcome relief to our audiences!