A Brief History..........

Originally known as the Emmanuel, Shelthorpe and Nanpantan Amateurs, the ESNA Players began life in the early 1960's as a youth group performing plays at the Emmanuel Church Hall in Loughborough. In 1965 we performed our first musical, A Country Girl, and in 1977 moved to the Stanford Hall Theatre. In 1986 our production of Oliver! heralded a move to the Charnwood Theatre in Loughborough's Town Hall, where we currently perform two musicals a year.

In addition to the pictures found on these pages, many thanks go to Mike Speight who has provided an archive of some older show photo's, which can be found on his own web pages here.