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Will Selsdon manage to solve Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web?
A classic whodunnit with a smattering of laughs comes to Selsdon Hall next week, when CODA, the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, revives one of Queen of Crime Agatha Christie’s thrillers, Spider’s Web. Desperate to dispose of the body before … Continue reading
Side By Side By Selsdon for latest CODA song and dance show
CODA, the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, is going all Sondheim for their next production, Company, which is to be performed at Selsdon Hall from May 8 to 11. In 1970s New York, bachelor Bobby contemplates his unmarried state. Over … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night provides park’s summer scenes
Twelfth Night is this summer’s production at the Bandstand in Wandle Park, marking 10 years of open air theatre in the park by CODA, The Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association. Shakespeare’s comedy of disguise and hidden love runs from July … Continue reading
Suburban spy drama is coming to Selsdon Hall this week
In 1960s suburbia, Barbara and Bob Jackson are living an idyllic life with their daughter Julie. But when they are visited by the security services, they are informed that their best friends and neighbours, the Canadian Krogers, may not be … Continue reading
How businesses profited at expense of the Borough of Culture
BOROUGH OF VULTURES: £1.3m of arts funding provided by the Mayor of London was misused by Croydon’s Tory council to boost local businesses, but delivered a year-long flop, judging by official audience figures. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s year as … Continue reading
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Croydon 2023: the Penn Report, dog attacks and those giraffes
THE YEAR IN REVIEW Part 2 – May to August If there was one good thing to come out of Croydon Council this year, then it must have been the Penn Report. Katherine Kerswell, the council’s chief executive, had held … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, Crime, Croydon Council, Heathfield House, History, Inside Croydon, Knife crime, Mayor Jason Perry, Sarah Jones MP, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Borough of Culture, CODA, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, David Morgan, giraffes, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Ian Hislop, Ken Towl, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, Private Eye, Purley Way, Tory, Utah, Wastefield, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Purley schoolboy who reached for the sky in Battle of Britain
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: The Minster archives are full of accounts of those who gave their lives in the world wars. DAVID MORGAN recounts the story of one, a fighter pilot who just might have been memorialised in a famous movie While … Continue reading
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Selsdon Hall, Nov 9-12
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The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Selsdon Hall, Nov 9-12
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80 years on the stage – taking Croydon from the Blitz to Narnia
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: This year marks the 80th anniversary of the first performances by CODA, the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, making it one of the longest-lasting community arts organisations in the borough. DAVID MORGAN looks into how the group came … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, CODA, David Morgan, History, Theatre
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, CODA, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, David Morgan, Fairfield Halls, Grand Theatre, Grand Theatre and Opera House, Kenneth Horne, Narnia, Russell Grant, Second World War, Simon Le Bon, The Blitz, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, World War II, World War Two
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CODA’s Alice Through Wonderland, Wandle Park, Jul 26-29
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Wandle Park to be transformed into a summertime Wonderland
Something a little weird and a bit wonderful will be appearing around the bandstand in Wandle Park next week. In its 80th year, CODA, the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, is performing Alice Through Wonderland, an innovative production of Lewis … Continue reading
CODA’s Alice Through Wonderland, Wandle Park, Jul 26-29
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Genius at work: Ayckbourn committee comedy hits the Marx
BELLA BARTOCK’s visit to the CODA production in Selsdon of Ten Times Table brings back many happy memories I don’t know about the Massacre of the Pendon Twelve. By the time we got to an hour before curtain-up of CODA’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Ayckbourn, Ayckbourn, CODA, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, Michael Hall, Selsdon, Selsdon Hall, Ten Times Table
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CODA table an amendment to Ayckbourn’s council satire
So you’ve just received your Council Tax bill and you want to get an idea of what all that money is paying for? You really want to know how local councils work..? Then you’d best get along to Selsdon Hall … Continue reading
Plucky CODA bring The 39 Steps to the stage in Carshalton
CODA, the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, will be staging their new production in Sutton, with The 39 Steps at the CryerArts Centre in Carshalton this November. Using Patrick Barlow’s adaptation from John Buchan’s famous thriller novel and the Hitchcock … Continue reading
CODA’s Old Time Music Hall, Sanderstead, Sep 30-Oct 1
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Tagged CODA, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, Sanderstead
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Jane Austen’s favourite given a night out on the Wandle
DRAMA IN THE PARKS: It’s been a busy week for our veteran arts correspondent, BELLA BARTOCK, as she’s been out and about with the return of local AmDrams’ summer productions, starting with CODA’s Pride and Prejudice Anticipating that getting her … Continue reading
Wandle Park offers ‘immersive’ theatre at the bandstand
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s beloved classic of wit and romance, the tale of Lizzie Bennet and Mr Darcy, is coming to a bandstand near you this summer, as CODA – the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association – once again … Continue reading
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Tagged CODA, Croydon, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Wandle Park
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