November 2008 Archives

More than £12,000 of public and private money has been spent repairing a 170-year-old wall around a disused animal pound in Thorpe.

The Association for the Improvement of Runnymede (AIR) secured £8,750 of National Lottery funding and further contributions came from aggregate company, CEMEX, Runnymede Council, Thorpe Park and TASIS American School, making a total of £12,500.

Local drama group, Thorpe Players, is looking to the future with its next production. The play, "Comic Potential", is set a few years hence, when daytime TV soaps are even further down the scale than they are now. Actors are not always Humans any more, some of them are Androids. But what happens if an Android falls in love? Director Karen Noble was drawn to this futuristic love story, saying that "This play gives the group a great challenge; it is a chance to show both human and mechanistic movement and emotions. It is wonderful opportunity to explore beyond the norms of our currently known limits."

The group is presenting the play at Thorpe Village Hall, Coldharbour Lane, on Wednesday 3rd to Saturday 6th December at 8pm. Tickets are a credit-crunch friendly £8 and are bookable in advance on 07923 583295 - any unsold tickets are available on the door each evening. "Comic Potential" is by Alan Ayckbourn and is written with all his usual observant wit. He gives us an heartwarming play which is sometimes farce, and sometimes something much deeper, set in a time when "everything has changed, except human nature".

Amateur dramatic group, the Thorpe Players, will perform their production of Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential from December 3-6 at Thorpe Village Hall, Coldharbour Lane, at 8pm.

The play is a humerous and observant take on a future where androids could fall in love.
Tickets, which are £8, are available by calling 07923 583295, with unsold tickets on the door.

Monks Walk footpath, which runs between Thorpe village and Staines Road, re-opened on Monday, November 10, after being closed by Surrey County Council for one month.

The path was closed to the public so Thorpe Park, which owns it, could undertake inspections to 11,000 volt electricity cables that lie underground along its length.