Awards – Culter Theatre Club

Thank you Vattenfall and Foundation Scotland!

ctcadmin — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:50:38 +0000

Culter Theatre Club are delighted to announce that we have been awarded £7,478 from the Foundation Scotland and Vattenfall – ‘Unlock our Future Fund’ towards the replacement and upgrade of our stage lighting at Culter Village Hall.

Vattenfall, operator of the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm, provide the ‘Unlock our Future Fund’ to support projects in Aberdeen City and Shire that contribute towards a climate smart future. The fund aims to support charitable activity that contributes to investment in environmentally sustainable community spaces, supports creative solutions, and ensures a legacy and benefit to the local community.

The majority of our existing lighting – which was very near end of life, was environmentally unfriendly, costly to run, and – as many will know – the heat generated was particularly uncomfortable during our summer productions.

The Vattenfall grant will allow us to upgrade all our existing fixtures to modern LED and introduce new styles of lights we haven’t used before. This will make our system more environmentally friendly, cheaper to run, and safer to operate, whilst giving us the ability to be more creative in our lighting designs.

Culter Theatre Club are not the sole users of the stage lighting. We regularly welcome visiting drama groups, special events, and other users who will feel the benefit of the investment. It will be a great asset for the future of Culter Village Hall.

We are very grateful for this financial support, and thank Foundation Scotland and Vattenfall for supporting our project.

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From Judge to Buttons

ctcadmin — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:43:40 +0000

Every year Culter Theatre Club presents our “Rita Hunter Award” to
someone in the club in recognition of the work they’ve done over the
previous year.
This year the award was presented at our DVD
night, and the committee decided that the deserving recipient
would be Matthew Daldry for his brilliant performances, both in the
youth play “Big Bad & Little Red” earlier in 2014 where he played
the Judge, and also for his excellent transformation as Buttons in our
annual panto, Cinderella last December.
Matthew was presented with his award by our Chairman Kerwin Robertson, and Cinderella director, Tom Forbes. Well done Matthew!

Rita Hunter Award 2012: “Star Performer”

ctcadmin — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 20:14:50 +0000

Last night Culter Theatre Club had a get together of cast and crew to celebrate the success of our most recent pantomime, Beauty and the Beast, which was enjoyed by hundreds of people over five shows just before Christmas.
As part of the evening, we also remembered Rita Hunter, who had been a member of the club for over twenty years and was a cast member in the club’s very first Pantomime, Robin Hood and his Merry Loons, playing the part of “The Fairy Queen” back in 1992. Sadly, Rita passed away last year, but over the years she had been involved in all aspects of the theatre club, from performing on stage, creating costumes and being part of the production team, to writing scripts and directing.
Rita was always an encouragement to other club members, and a real support and mentor to many. For that reason the club felt that one way to remember her, and to continue that encouragement she gave, would be to have an annual award in her name which celebrates some aspect of the work that a member of the club has achieved over the previous year. This could be from any aspect of putting on a show; for particular flair on stage, superb set design or backstage work, to being a genius on the follow spot!
This year therefore, after a unanimous committee decision, I was very pleased to be able to present the Rita Hunter Award Shield to our “Star Performer”, Callum Turner (16) from Newtonhill. Callum is one of the pupils at Camphill School Aberdeen and he has come from just watching the panto, to this time being right up there on stage doing a fantastic job with lines, singing, and dancing as one of Gustave’s Gang. His boundless energy and enthusiasm was an encouragement to all the cast and crew, and his honesty and commitment through all the many weeks of rehearsals and the show itself was a true example to us all. A well-deserved recipient of the Rita Hunter Award for 2012, our congratulations and best wishes from all the club go to Callum Turner. Well done!
Colin Jones
Culter Theatre Club Chairman