The Florians Drama Club

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We are based in the City of Inverness, the "Capital of the Highlands", in Scotland. Founded in 1944 for the purpose of entertaining the troops stationed in the town during WW2, we nowadays do about five productions a year.We have our own theatre, converted from an old Nissen Hut, which was formerly a temporary library building, and then a community centre. Over the last few years we have installed tiered seating, using seats removed from the Gaiety Theatre in Ayr, and built a production box to house the lighting and sound departments.It's also a good place for the Stage Manager to put the director during productions, i.e. it keeps them out of the way!

We can now seat 96 paying customers, up from the original 35 - 40 people we managed to fit in when we first took over the building. We originally used "The Green Hut" as a store and rehearsal space, and performed in Eden Court Theatre and on tour. This became uneconomical, so we made a start towards turning the green hut in to the luxurious theatre you can see today.

Building work on our new extension is now complete - we won't be able to fit any more people in, but the new entrance foyer and toilet facilities will prevent the long trek to the caravan site toilets in the winter darkness at Panto time, and the new dressing room facilities make things much better for the actors!

The Grand Re-opening took place on Saturday 14^th August 2004.

Pictures and progress reports can be found here.

Productions

Our next Production

It’s Panto Time again!

This year’s Pantomime, “Red Riding Hood”, is on at the theatre from Friday 9^th until Saturday 17^th December at 7:30pm, with matinées on both Saturdays at 2:30pm.

There is no performance on Sunday 11^th December.

Tickets are now on sale, see the Productions page for more details. All welcome!

Previous productions

We performed 3 One-Act Plays, under the banner of “What you see is NOT what you get”, from Wednesday 21^st to Friday 23^rd September 2011.

“The Winter’s Tale”, by William Shakespeare, 29^th June to 2^nd July, 2011.

We took part in the SCDA One-Act Play Festival, performing “The Bear”, by Anton Chekhov (adapted), in The Duthac Centre in Tain, on 25^th February, at 7:30pm.

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