In 1964 a group of ladies from the Townswomen's Guild were tired of doing all-women plays and re-started the Players as an evening class. The first play produced was Time and the Conways by J B Priestly. There was no theatre or theatre equipment. The play was performed in what is now the Low Port Primary School. The stage was in sections built on trestles which squeaked, groaned or growled at every step. The dressing room was a classroom at the opposite end of the building; costume and set were "very basic".  Undeterred by the difficulties the number of members grew until, by the end of the sixties, the Players  were a relatively small but hard-working group. All members had to be multi-talented: while rehearsing and learning their lines, they were expected to make their own costumes and build, paint, and paper the set before assembling it - and then go on the stage and act!

No-one within the Players was a director. The first directors included Mr Angus McPhee, who taught English at the Academy; Russell Fleming, who had been a member of the Players previously; and Dr Bill Watson, head of the local general practice.  It was not until the 1970s that members attempted directing themselves.

During the 1970s the Christmas pantomime became a feature of the year's programme. The first was more of a children's play, but it proved so successful that a full-blooded pantomime was staged the following year, and by the end of the year a pantomime, written by Nora Gibbon, one of the original members in the sixties, was a staple of the Players' year. In the eighties the writing of the pantomime was taken over by Robert Martin, one of the more memorable pantomime dames that the Players has produced. After Robert,  this onerous responsibility was taken up by Peter Anderson, another enthusiastic dame, willing to shave off his beard each January in the cause of 'art'!

The Palace is such an asset to the town that we try to make use of it whenever possible and have presented two plays in the Great Hall:  Mary Stewart, written by Joe Chiari, and Mary Stewart's Women a play written by our own Peter Anderson.

The Players were also significantly involved in the celebrations of the 600th anniversary of the creation of Linlithgow as a Royal Burgh. The main celebration was a 'Son et Lumiere' held in the Palace, written by Robert Martin and acted by the Players with considerable help from many other groups and individuals within the town.

At the end of the eighties, a significant change occurred in that the Players started to produce Re-enactments within Linlithgow Palace and - for the first time - were paid for their efforts. We were approached by Historic Scotland, who manage the Palace, to re-create the return to the Palace of its most famous inhabitant, Mary, Queen of Scots. Robert Martin who was already writing our pantomimes, undertook the research and produced a 25 minute playlet which made use of the various structures and vantage points within the Palace. In the first year we performed the same play three times each Saturday and Sunday for 12 weeks throughout the summer - a total of 72 performances! - a veritable tour de force when you realise that from a membership of about 30, (there was a cast of over 10), members were still going off on holiday and some members were so committed that they appeared at every performance! Now however we have a more reasonable commitment of (usually) every Sunday in August with two plays to perform.

From these re-enactments we have developed considerable expertise in historically accurate 16th century costumes as well as a substantial wardrobe.

In the nineties, the Players first attempted to compete in the Scottish Community Drama Association's Festival of One-Act Plays - with several successes, although never getting beyond the second round. In 2008 however, we made it all the way to the Scottish Final in Inverness where we were Runners-Up - a truly phenomenal achievement for our club.

Nowadays the Players try to perform  a full length play in the Spring,  the re-enactments in the Summer, a Cheese and Wine evening in the Autumn, consisting of short plays and sketches, and in January what always proves to be a very popular pantomime.