This is the Quarter-Finals of the Western Division of One Act Plays as part of The All England Theatre Festival 2017. This year these Quarter-Finals are being arranged by Teignmouth Drama Festival. Sadly, Teignmouth is at present without a Theatre. Please spare a thought for them and also for the local amateur musical and drama groups in Barnstaple who are in this case without two Theatres. Teignmouth Drama Festival has hired our venue at The Blackmore Theatre for this event. Performance times are 2.30pm and 7.30pm on Saturday 22nd April 2017. Two groups will be performing in the afternoon...
"London Suite" is a comedy written by Neil Simon and will be presented at The Blackmore Theatre by The Exmouth Players from Monday 8th through to Saturday 13th May 2017, plus a Saturday Matinee. Evening performances commence at 7.30pm. The Matinee starts at 2.30pm. This play takes part in a London Suite. You may think of this as a sedate place, but what really is about to unfold? The play itself is made up of the four following plays:- • Settling Accounts - The Suite is occupied by an inebriated Welsh writer who is holding his long time business manager, caught absconding with the writer's...
This is an opportunity for those drama groups who have entered this year’s Festival to perform their One Act Plays in front of a professional adjudicator.
This Festival is part of The All England Theatre Festival 2017. It opens on Monday 3rd and runs through to Saturday 8th April 2017. Monday to Friday evening performances commence at 7.30pm. Saturday evenings performances commence at 7pm.
We are once again grateful to The Devoncourt Hotel of Exmouth who are sponsoring this Festival.
Mezzalchemy, Teignmouth Players, Ottery Community Theatre, Axminster Drama Club,...
The Exmouth Players are holding auditions for their production of “The Titfield Thunderbolt”, a comedy by Philip Goulding, at The Blackmore Theatre, Bicton Street, on Sunday, 26th March 2017 starting at 3.00pm.
The play itself will run from Monday 3rd through to Saturday 8th July, including a Saturday matinee.
These auditions are open to you all. You don’t have to be a member of The Exmouth Players or even have acted before. Simply pop along and enjoy the occasion.
The residents of Titfield, finding they are about to lose the branch railway, decide to buy the...
CYGNET is passionate about Shakespeare and strives to create accessible and relevant productions which value the text and draw out the drama and themes from the plays.
TEENAGE PREGNANCY, PROSTITUTION, CRIMINALITY
In Vienna strict codes of behaviour have not been enforced by those in power for a generation and moral laxity is rife. What will it take for the Viennese authorities to regain control of the public morality and at what cost? Angelo, the new Deputy of Vienna, decides to face the problem head-on by invoking an...
‘ In delay there lies no plenty … youth’s a stuff will not endure’
Christmas 1916. While war wages on, those back at home in Illyria try to forget and seize the day, seeking distraction through frivolity, solace, and companionship.
When refugee twins, Viola and Sebastian, are shipwrecked and separated, they shake up this grief-stricken community, resulting in mistaken identity, folly and love.
Shakespeare’s most delightful yet melancholic comedy, this is a vibrant, intimate ensemble production enriched with music...
by Alfred Shaughnessy from the novel by Reginald Arkell Directed by Simon Downing
Giles Shenton, as Old Herbaceous, keeps us engrossed, entertained, amused and emotionally engaged. Old Herbaceous is an acute and sometimes hilarious observation of relationships between the classes in a gentler, simpler age.
Sprinkled with witticisms and epithets. Giles Shenton truly lives the part and makes us feel it’s a private chat from a bygone and comforting age that leaves us with a feeling that, perhaps, all’s right with the world. The humorous love story of a single-minded yet gentle...
Substance & Shadow Theatre bring you an original tale of intolerance, alienation and Findus crispy pancakes!!!
It’s the 23rd June - the day of the Euro Referendum and just another lunch time in the works canteen for cousins Len Silver and Melvyn Gould and their colleagues, but beneath their love of haute cuisine and jovial banter there’s trouble brewing. Sid Vishnu’s lentil Dahl and Don Beattie’s bangers and mash are emblems of a nation divided!
Substance and Shadow Theatre present a black comedy that will have you chewing over the remains of Brexit and deciding on a...
with Giles Shenton as ‘Herbert’ by Alfred Shaughnessy from the novel by Reginald Arkell Directed by Simon Downing
Giles Shenton, as Old Herbaceous, keeps us engrossed, entertained, amused and emotionally engaged. Old Herbaceous is an acute and sometimes hilarious observation of relationships between the classes in a gentler, simpler age.
Sprinkled with witticisms and epithets. Giles Shenton truly lives the part and makes us feel it’s a private chat from a bygone and comforting age that leaves us with a feeling that, perhaps, all’s right with the world. The humorous love...
Substance & Shadow Theatre bring you an original tale of intolerance, alienation and Findus crispy pancakes!!!
It’s the 23rd June - the day of the Euro Referendum and just another lunch time in the works canteen for cousins Len Silver and Melvyn Gould and their colleagues, but beneath their love of haute cuisine and jovial banter there’s trouble brewing. Sid Vishnu’s lentil Dahl and Don Beattie’s bangers and mash are emblems of a nation divided!
Substance and Shadow Theatre present a black comedy that will have you chewing over the remains of Brexit and deciding on a...
