30 January 2024
There’s a new vicar and a big wedding coming to Dibley! The St Peter Players are bringing this much loved comedy to the stage. A two act production including all your favourite characters from the hit TV show. Relive the moment of Geraldine Granger’s arrival as Dibley’s first women Vicar and her first encounter with its insane residents.
Show Dates: 30th May 2024, 31st May 2024 & 1st June 2024
About the show
The Vicar of Dibley was created by Richard Curtis and written for its lead actress, Dawn French, It aired from 1994 to 2007. It is set in a fictional small Oxfordshire village called Dibley, which is assigned a female vicar following the 1992 changes in the Church of England that permitted the ordination of women.
In ratings terms, the programme is among the most successful in the digital era, with the various Christmas and New Year specials in 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 all entering the top 10 programmes of the year. The Vicar of Dibley received multiple British Comedy Awards, two International Emmys, and was a multiple British Academy Television Awards nominee. In 2004, it came third in Britain’s Best Sitcom.