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About the Starlight Players

The Starlight Players are a friendly, social group that comes together to produce well regarded plays, pantomimes and variety shows. We normally produce two productions a year: a pantomime in January and a summer show on Tuesday evenings, weekly between the end of July and the beginning of September.

The Society was founded in 1974 and is based at Criccieth Memorial Hall, one of Gwynedd's best medium-sized performance venues.

We are a democratic organisation, run by a Committee on behalf of the members accordance with our Constitution.

Society History

  •  1974 - The Criccieth Starlight Players Amateur Theatrical Society formed as a pantomime group.
  • 1975 - First pantomime, Cinderella, staged in Y Neuadd Goffa Criccieth Memorial Hall.
  • 1979 - First summer play 'Friends and Neighbours'.
  • 1996 - Society starts producing summer variety shows. We now perform them on a semi-regular basis, as an alternative to a summer play.
  • 2003 - Youth theatre section, SPYDRS, formed. Its still going strong and often oversubscribed.
  • 2009 - first musical theatre production, Annie Junior. A week-long workshop production by the SPYDRS, with assistance from the adult company.
  • 2014 - 40th anniversary of the Society, celebrated with a dinner and disco at Y Neuadd Goffa Criccieth Memorial Hall.
  • 2016 - first full-scale musical theatre production, Disney's Beauty and the Beast (JR.).
  • 2020 - The first year with only one production Knight Fever!, when the Covid-19 pandemic strikes and members go into lockdown.
  • 2021 - As it was not practical to produce shows during the pandemic, the society took to YouTube to produce the shorts Box (A Journey) and Still Afloat. These won a NODA The Show Must Go Award in 2022.
Cinderella, 1975 - our first pantomime (c) Leisha Keane
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