News & Events 2025
Autumn Production
PEOPLE by Alan Bennett
25th – 30th November 2025.
Directed By Alan Copsey
See 2025 for Production Photos‘
The Perfect Murder by Hugh Janes from the book by Jeffrey Archer
Directed by Gill Lambourn
THE PERFECT MURDER – AUDITION NOTICE for 12th December 2025
The Perfect Murder a novel by Jeffrey Archer, adapted for the stage by Hugh Janes is not so much a
“who dun it?” as a “will he be found guilty?”. John is convinced he has committed murder and declares this to the audience in the opening lines of the play. We then go back in time following the investigation by D.I. Simmons and Sgt “Skipper” Davies and the murder trial run by Judge Buchanan, the council for the defence QC Scott and for the prosecution Sir Humphrey Mountcliff. We discover how John and his wife Elizabeth deal with the challenging situation they face and later we meet Paul Menzies who turns out to be a critical ingredient in the plot.
CAST
John Jason Burt
Elizabeth Clare Burt
DI Simmons Chris Smith
Sgt Davies Mike Ryder
Maria Yvette Walters
Paul Jonathan Rogers
Alan Tony Clark
Sir Humphrey Richard Sanderson
Judge Sue Wilkins
Scott QC Andy Horner
Clerk Tony Clark
Mallins Paul Pridmore
Annual Dinner 12th February 2026
Dinner consists of a welcome drink, 3 courses, tea or coffee…and a tip for
£27 per head.
Gather for Drinks at 6pm – Dinner served 6-30pm – Carriages 9pm. If we can muster 60 people for this event we will have exclusive use of the Restaurant. So do feel free to invite a guest or two.
Have a look at the attached menu and please let Sue Wilkins know your choices by 26th January at the latest, together with payment by the usual means. Please don’t leave it until the last minute!
Funtington Players account : Sort code 60-83-01 .Account 20303033. (Your ref: FPs Dinner)
Or if you'd rather pay by cheque please make it payable to The Funtington Players and post to Tony Clark, 37 Broyle Road, Chichester, PO19 6BA.
Click on pdf for Menu
PLAYREADING Friday January 9th at 7.30pm
UP 'N' UNDER by John Godber
Summary
Dedicated to the Rugby League fans of Hull and created for the Hull Truck Theatre Company, this comedy premiered at the 1984 Edinburgh Festival, where it won a Fringe First award and subsequently the 1984 Laurence Olivier Award for Comedy of the Year after a successful run in London. Set “somewhere in the north of England”, it centres on the amateur rugby team from the Wheatsheaf Arms who can only muster a side of four whose pride lies in their unbroken record of defeat.