We are extremely pleased that the Abingdon Touring Theatre Company has decided to support the Warborough and Shillingford Festival in its adoption of Batticaloa and hope that you will be able to go and see one of their performances. The following is taken from a recent ATTC Press Release:

Theatre Company supports Sri Lankan Tsunami village

The Abingdon Touring Theatre Company, a new Oxfordshire-based theatre company for gap year students, will be raising funds for disabled people in Manmunaipattu, a village in Eastern Sri Lanka devastated by the Boxing Day tsunami, on their February/March 2006 tour of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads.

Working with the Warborough and Shillingford Festival and international charity Practical Action (previously ITDG), the company will give four charity performances during the tour, from which all bar and programme proceeds will be donated to the project, which is making a real difference to the lives of some of the most disadvantaged people in one of the poorest parts of the world.

The dates and venues for the charity performances
will be:

Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd February 2006,
St Mary the Virgin Church, Henley

Thursday 9th February 2006,
Christ Church, Northcourt Road, Abingdon

Wednesday 22nd February 2006,
St Michael and All Angels Church, Summertown

Donations will be accepted at all other performances, details of which can be found on www.attc.org.uk or by telephoning the box office on 01865 305305.

Tickets cost £7.50/£6.50, with performances starting at 7.30pm (doors open at 7pm)