Category: Productions

  • Pip Utton: Dylan and Dickens – January 2023

    Pip Utton: Dylan and Dickens – January 2023

    Dylan Pip Utton returned for the third time from 25th to 28th January, regaling the audiences with two new characters. The first was Bob Dylon, supposedly on the night of his last ever concert. Speaking to the press backstage, Bob reminisced about his incredible life – mostly his musical success – but also touching on…

  • THE MOUSETRAP – November 2022

    THE MOUSETRAP – November 2022

    by Agatha Christie A group of people gathered in a remote part of the countryside discover, to their horror, that there is a murderer in their midst. Who can it be? One by one the suspicious characters reveal their sordid pasts until at the last, nerve-shredding moment the identity and the motive are finally revealed.…

  • Showcase – October 2022

    Showcase – October 2022

    directed by Leigh Patterson Jávea Players showcases its talent with comedic sketches, songs, monologues and classical drama. Two performances were in aid of the Ukrainian charity Tabletochki. Video A video of all sketches (except Groan Ups) by Ross Ord. TIP: View full screen. Photos NB It was difficult to obtain good quality photos and those…

  • Bats – June 2022

    Bats – June 2022

    Jávea Players’ popular summer show was performed at the Casa de Cultura, Jávea old town, following a tapas dinner at the Bar Imperial. Bats Written and produced by Phil Mansell The play – best described as a comedy with dark undertones – explores what happens when a house in a quiet cul-de-sac is invaded by an ever-growing…

  • Bazaar and Rummage –  April 2022

    Bazaar and Rummage – April 2022

    In this heartfelt comedy, three severely agoraphobic women leave their houses for the first time in years, and make it to a jumble sale, organised by their two social workers. However as the afternoon progresses, nerves and neuroses are running high and the distinction between the social workers and the anxious people they are supposed…

  • Pip Utton -Four in Four – February 2022

    Pip Utton -Four in Four – February 2022

    Pip Utton is a charming, unassuming man. To watch him perform is mesmerising, amusing, harrowing, thought-provoking as chameleon-like, he transforms himself into whichever character he is portraying. Chaplin He showed us another side of Chaplin, cleverly incorporating apparently old black and white footage, but with a suitcase in the shakey film suddenly being thrown onto…

  • Duets – November 2021

    Duets – November 2021

    Duets is a collection of three light-hearted comedies by Peter Quilter: BLIND DATE, directed by Leigh Patterson. Jonathon and Wendy are on a blind date, hoping to get it right this time, though they never have so far. THE HOLIDAY, directed by Jen Kellow-Ward. Shelley and Bobby go on holiday to finalise their divorce whilst…

  • Love Letters – September 2021

    Love Letters – September 2021

    A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters is a tender, tragi-comic, and nuanced examination of the shared nostalgia, missed opportunities, and deep closeness of two lifelong, complicated friends. While spanning five decades and numerous locations, it is staged simply, with two actors behind desks, letting their words describe a world of emotion.A unique and imaginative theatre piece which,…

  • Tapas and Titters – Summer 2021

    Tapas and Titters – Summer 2021

    Summer Dinner Show Cheeky Tapas & Titters directed by Cherry Cabban was our first post-Covid show. As always, the summer show was very popular, selling out within less than a week.Tapas at Bar Imperial were followed by entertaining performances in two parts, the first was a trip down memory lane to the wonderful comic, satirical…

  • BING TO BUBLÉ- Roger B sings the Crooners

    BING TO BUBLÉ- Roger B sings the Crooners

    July 2021. Casa de Cultura, Javea Oct 2020. El Cid, Benedoleig Local singer and long time Javea Players member Roger Brown performs an affectionate tribute to the great ‘Crooners’. Working almost chronologically from the forties to the naughties, Roger re-visits the music of fourteen great exponents of the style from Bing Crosby to Michael Bublé…