It’s with mixed emotions that we announce that it’s a wrap for TACT.

It has been an amazing and fun journey, some of us from the start with the Passion Play which was performed in The Square in 2002.

The then vicar of Titchfield, Bill Day, asked Heather Carling to direct a Passion Play to celebrate the Millennium. Heather is RADA trained and taught Drama at Southdowns College. The cast was widely drawn from members of the Church and Village. It was performed in the Square at Easter 2002 and drew a large crowd.

Building on that success Heather got together a cast from members of the Church and Village to celebrate the 200 th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar by performing a series of plays based on ‘Heroes’.

The success of this stimulated a desire for the company to put on further productions. These included an evening of plays by Noel Coward, a Nativity Play and more recently Cabarets of short skits and songs.

These were initially held in the Parish Room, more latterly moving to the Community Centre. The winning formula has always been for the audience to bring their supper and sit together at tables.

This decision to end has not been taken lightly but CoVID has understandably given people a chance to re-evaluate their time and commitments and we have decided to go out on a high!

Over the years we have supported many local charities by donating our proceeds. Our final monies will be split 50/50 between The Parish Rooms and The Community Centre, both of which have been good homes for TACT.

All props and costumes will be donated to Titchfield Festival Theatre.

Our company has changed over the years and we thank each and every performer and behind the scenes supporter for their time and contribution in making each year a success.

We could not have done any of this without the fantastic support from our audiences and we thank you so much for your enthusiasm and participation – we’ve loved entertaining you.

Pat Shirley

Director TACT