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Lyndhurst Drama & Music Society  Vernon Theatre, Lyndhurst Darren Funnell 26 January 2025 75 years? Congratulations Lyndhurst Drama & Musical Society. What a fun way to start with Dick Whittington at the Vernon Theatre. I was rather spoilt. I had a ‘sneak peek’ at the Dress rehearsal. This Society has always been very welcoming. Seeing a show ‘ready to go’ on an otherwise windy and damp afternoon certainly lifted the spirits. I was glad I went along. You will be too. True to the spirit of pantomime, the performance delivers a family-friendly mix of humour, music, and audience interaction, all

Lyndhurst Drama & Musical Society Vernon Theatre, Lyndhurst Darren Funnell 24 October 2024 Three Musketeers, currently being performed by Lyndhurst Drama & Musical society, is a lot of fun. A sort of Horrible Histories adventure mashed together with slapstick routines, absurd laugh-out-loud moments and fast-paced silliness that is deceptively off-the-cuff and free-wheeling. Tonally, it feels like a panto without the panto tropes, but as an experience, James Barry’s play is much smarter, deceptively close to the source material and provides a succession of hilarious set pieces, word play, and good clean family fun. The plot involves the Three Musketeers trying

Lyndhurst Drama & Musical Society  The Vernon Theatre, Lyndhurst Philip & Julie McStraw   22 July 2024 The Vernon Theatre in Lyndhurst has a unique charm – it is located in a delightful setting and evokes a spirit of times past. It is an excellent venue for a production of Dancing At Lughnasa, which is set in County Donegal, in August 1936, outside the fictional town of Ballybeg, where the festival of Lughnasa, the Celtic Harvest Festival, takes place. This beautifully scripted award-winning drama is the creation of the celebrated writer Brian Friel.  The play was first performed in the Abbey Theatre,