About

In the 1950’s the late Mabel Salter organised a group of young people connected with the church and known as St Mary’s Young People. They staged a pantomime every year for 11 years at the Parish Rooms.

In 1961, as a natural successor, Market Drayton Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society (MDAODS), Amdrams for short, was born as an amateur operatic and dramatic group for all ages. There had been an operatic society in Market Drayton a number of years previously but it folded in the 1940s.

The first show staged was “Spring Fever”, a revue that was quickly followed by a play “Beside the Seaside” and another revue “Cocktails for You”. It was 1963, however, before the first musical “Free as Air” was presented and 1967 before we expanded in to pantomime with ‘Aladdin’.

In more recent years, we have tried to produce three shows a year – a pantomime, a play and a musical.

Some of our more recent productions have included the pantomimes ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Dick Whittington’ and ‘Cinderella’ – the plays ‘Outside Edge’, ‘Curtain Up On Murder’ and ‘Play On’ – the musicals ‘Oh! What A Night’ and ‘Amdrams Allsorts’ – while JTW have staged ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and ‘Peter Pan’.