Potton Playhouse  can trace its roots back to the 1972 Potton Show where Colin Buxton recalls on the Potton History Socity website:

"I met up with Doreen Richardson, who went to the original meeting – possibly late 1972 – when a decision was made to put on a pantomime as a start up fund raising effort. I remember that many people were involved in many things i.e. Playhouse and singing groups. It was called ‘Aladdin’, performed by Potton Playhouse. Dave Lester came up with an address for Annette Carlisle, now divorced and remarried. So I wrote to her asking for help, waited ages, then Roger Catt came to see me with an e-mail which was very helpful and from which I will quote. “I’m afraid my recollections of the start of Potton Flower Show are rather dim. I remember Mike and me being fired with enthusiasm of novelty and potential if such a thing could be got off the ground. And I remember that it entailed a huge amount of work – he had all the ideas and I was the typist and dog’s body. The funding of Potton Playhouse was an off-shoot and I think it was all about raising money to help finance the Flower and Vegetable Show in the main – other than that its all a bit of a blank."

Since then Playhouse has gone on from strength to strength and now produces at least one major production a year as well as an active Junior section and supports all the many local societies and groups in the area. Some of these can be found on our Links page.