JUNE 2025 – A Few Crusted Characters

June 2025 Dorset Tour Dates | A Few Crusted Characters (The New Hardy Players)

Last summer 2024…

Six Men of Dorset – The Tolpuddle Play

Following a sold-out run in June, and a show at the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival, three extra performances were added in September.

Act 1 was performed in Dorchester’s historic Corn Exchange, where the play was originally performed 90 years ago, and Act 2 in the evocative surroundings of Dorchester’s iconic Shire Hall Historic Courthouse Museum, where the Martyr’s where tried and sentenced to transportation 190 years ago.

The New Hardy Players bring the stories of Thomas Hardy to life through evocative dramatisations of his work

Recreation of a photograph of Thomas Hardy and the cast of Tess

The New Hardy Players present

The video production of our performance in 2019 ‘Far from the maddening crowd’

PART 1 and PART 2

‘The Trumpet Major’ from our 2018 production

PART 1 and PART 2

An interview with the man behind the plays, but who rarely gets seen, Our Chairman, Producer and technical wizard, Andy Worth.

You can find The New Hardy Players on Twitter (@NewHardyPlayers), Facebook and now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ19tuzCW8mIoGu6jIgGEnw