St Nicolas Players Spalding

Note from the Director ...

When casting a play you usually need actors, sometimes singers, occasionally musicians but a brass band? Now that is something different, and St Nics like something different, especially if it is a challenge. This has been a challenge, and I would like to thank the whole team, both on and off stage, for their ideas and hard work.

A number of people on finding out that I would be directing this production said "Oh that's the story about the brass band" or "Isn't that the film about the miners?". 'Brassed Off' is about more than miners and music. It's about people, about a community and a way of life under threat. How some only