Pratchett's Elves Raise A Thousand For Christmas

20th January 2003

£1000 was raised for charity by the Purple Theatre Company at the end of 2002. In their latest production, Terry Pratchett's 'Lords and Ladies', characters were sponsored in a special appeal to raise funds for BBC's Children in Need.

The challenge was additional to the company's more customary fund-raising, where nightly raffle sales were donated to Shooting Stars and raffle sales for signed Pratchett books were donated to The Orangutan Foundation.

The group, which has staged over eight productions in the five years since its creation, has raised money for a number of charitable organisations with each show, including the Hammersmith Hospital Kidney Patients Association, Tiny Smiles and Purple Dreams, among others.

The Purple Theatre Company is a resident dramatics group of the Compass Theatre in Ickenham, and has so far staged adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Masquerade, Carpe Jugulum and Lords and Ladies, as well as having previously presented Mort and Men At Arms as Brunel Alumni Drama in Uxbridge.

The group are now taking on their sixth Pratchett challenge 'Interesting Times', which will be on at the Compass Theatre from 30 April until 3 May 2003. For more information about the forthcoming production please call 07050 605 081, or visit the website at www.purpletheatre.org.uk.