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All The Great Books (Abridged) - Shaftesbury Theatre Dawlish

All The Great Books (Abridged)

Event Date: 
02/08/2022 - 7:30pm to 06/08/2022 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Shaftesbury Theatre, Brunswick Place, Dawlish, EX7 9PB

All The Great Books (abridged) is an uproarious roller-coaster ride through a comically compact compilation of the world’s greatest literature! Watch as 3 actors cover over 90 books in 90 minutes from 1984 through Wuthering Heights. Everyone from the illiterate to the literati will love this refresher of literature’s greatest hits including Huckleberry Finn, The Odyssey, Green Eggs and Ham, Pride and Prejudice, The Bible, Harry Potter…and more! Sold-out audiences who raved about our “abridged” version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, surely will flip as we present All the...

Network Rail invites local schools to decorate Dawlish sea wall hoardings

Network Rail is inviting Dawlish schoolchildren to take part in an art competition that will brighten up hoardings around the new sea wall works at Colonnade underpass, close to Dawlish station. Winning pictures, based on the theme ‘What Dawlish means to me’, will be reproduced on the hoardings, remaining in place until the works are complete in spring 2020.

There will be four different age categories for the art competition including under 5s, 5-8, 9-11, 12+. Children whose designs are selected, will be invited to attend the unveiling of their art on the hoardings later this...

Network Rail commits to summer of Dawlish beach cleans

Network Rail commits to summer of Dawlish beach cleans

Network Rail has announced that throughout the summer, staff will be undertaking regular beach cleans along the Dawlish sea front to help keep the beach clean and free from rubbish. The commitment follows the break in work to improve the resilience of the sea wall between Dawlish station and Kennaway tunnel over the peak tourist season.

At least once a week, during low tide, staff will meet to keep the popular beach clear of litter.

The decision to carry out the weekly litter pick follows on from an initial beach clean in early July, when staff focused on the areas around...

Teignmouth and Dawlish Drama Festival of One-Act Plays

The Teignmouth and Dawlish Drama Festival (TADDfest) takes place each year in the spring at the lovely Shaftesbury Theatre in Dawlish.

Our Festival Competitions are open to amateur dramatic groups or societies from across Devon and Cornwall.

There is still time to apply to enter the 2019 Festival which will run from Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th March 2019.

Entrants will be given the opportunity to perform in front of an audience and the chance win one of ten trophies in various categories. Everyone receives a detailed analysis of their production from our...

Teignmouth and Dawlish Drama Festival of One-Act Plays

Event Date: 
16/03/2018 - 7:30pm to 17/03/2018 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Shaftesbury Theatre, Brunswick Place, Dawlish, EX7 9PB

The Teignmouth and Dawlish Drama Festival of one-act plays (TADDFest) this year welcomes adult and youth entries from Exeter, Broadclyst, Teignmouth, Dawlish, Ashburton and Bovey Tracey.

It will be an entertaining and varied programme, showcasing some of the best of local drama groups.

The Festival takes place at the Shaftesbury Theatre, Brunswick Place, Dawlish on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th March 2018. There will be a total of eight plays presented over three shows

The Festival is a member of the National Drama Festival Association, who also organise the British...

Teignmouth Drama Festival comes to Dawlish

Event Date: 
16/03/2017 - 7:30pm to 18/03/2017 - 3:00pm
Venue: 
Shaftesbury Theatre, Dawlish

The Teignmouth Drama Festival is now in its 21st year and is open to any amateur drama group in Devon. This year's festival will take place, for the second year running, at the Shaftesbury Theatre in Dawlish.

We had a really good time there last year and look forward to being in Dawlish again. The festival runs from Thursday 16th March to Saturday 18th March 2017. The Thursday and Friday performances will be at 7.30pm but we are opening at 3pm on the Saturday. We think this time will really appeal to audiences and performers alike. For more information visit: http://www....