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The South Devon Players, a touring theatre company based in Brixham, with previous international arts awards for it's staging of Shakespearean plays, return to the stage with William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. With a cast of primarily local actors and stage crew; joined by actors travelling to work with the company from across the UK, based on the company's reputation for excellence; Romeo and Juliet will tour a mixture of public shows, as well as into schools and community education settings; before streaming on two dedicated theatre streaming services available across the world, highlighting the incredible talent and skills that appear in Devon based theatre, in an exciting, engaging production combining innovation with tradition.
Tickets all available from our box office Brixham Theatre Town Hall, Bolton Cross, Brixham TQ5 8TA Saturday June 14th 2025 Torquay Royal Lyceum Theatre 29 Abbey Rd, Torquay TQ2 5NQ Saturday June 28th 2025- 7.30pm Kingskerswell Village Hall 15 School Rd, Kingskerswell, Newton Abbot TQ12 5DJ Saturday July 5th 2025-7.30pm Stokenham Village Hall Kiln Lane (by Carehouse Cross), Stokenham, near Kingsbridge, Devon TQ7 2SH Saturday July 12 2025 - 7.30pm Budleigh Salterton Public Hall Station Road, Budleigh Salterton EX9 6RJ Saturday July 19, 2025 - 7.30pm Matthews Hall, 3A Fore St, Topsham, Exeter EX3 0HF Saturday July 26, 2025 - 7.30pm Birmingham Black Box Theatre 9 Harford St, Birmingham B19 3EB Saturday August 2nd, 2025 - 7.30pm The Muse Theatre Lipson Co-operative Academy campus, Bernice Terrace, PL4 7PG Saturday August 9th 2025 - 7.30pm
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A HUGE THANK YOU TO The Brixham Pirate Festival for our stall and to all the lovely people who came along and joined in the wet sponge fun, jewellery, games etc. this allowed us to raise everything we need to get the team to perform at The Birmingham Black Box Theatre & Events with our coming tour of Romeo & Juliet with minibus and driver, fuel etc, and realated supplies for our projects. Also a massive thank you to Crafty Cwtch cafe over the road from us, for keeping us going with coffee and snacks! You have made this all possible! As a Brixham-based theatre team founded 20 years ago to help local people launch or further careers in the creative industries , bringing classical literature both to theatres, non-traditional spaces and schools; and audiences who don’t always get to experience live theatre; and so far not lucky in securing grant or sponsorship funding to achieve this; fundraising like this, is critical to our survival. More info on our up and coming public shows at https://www.southdevonplayers.com/box-office.html
Meet some of our lovely Romeo & Juliet actors from our promo photoshoot last Saturday - many thanks to Crafty Cwtch cafe for being a great base camp, Brixham Police being very lovely when we let them know we would be filming and photographing around the town back streets. These arent all of the characters; this is the group who were able to make the photoshoot. Public touring across Devon and up to Birmingham this summer, then stremaing online Tickets & dates all at https://www.southdevonplayers.com/box-office.html Caught between violently feuding families, two young lovers seek to marry, with tragic consequences, but leading to the end of the feud. This performance is part of a national tour and international streaming programme, involving public performances, full performances in schools, plus educational and literary talks & workshops for a variety of colleges, libraries and community groups, and a package of online content for students. Content advisories: Suitable for audiences age 12+. Younger audience members are welcome but please be aware of the content. Please be aware that this production contains violent scenes, narcotic references & depiction of suicide. If you have any questions about any aspect of our production, please contact us on [email protected] at any time. www.southdevonplayers.com Www.facebook.com/sdevonplayers
We now have tickets on sale for all public performances of Romeo & Juliet - you can book at our Box Office page. The public venue tour consists of BBRIXHAM: June 14th (matinee & evening) TORQUAY: June 28th (evening) KINGSKERSWELL/ NEWTON ABBOT: July 5th (evening) STOKENHAM/ KINGSBRIDGE: July 12th (evening) BUDLEIGH SALTERTON: July 19th (evening) TOPSHAM/ EXETER: July 26th (evening) BIRMINGHAM: August 2nd (evening) PLYMOUTH: August 9th (evening)
Absolutely lovely session with our monthly professional actors school in partnership with the amazing AKP Management Agency at Chestnut Community Centre today. A small turnout for the showreels and self taping workshop today but people were amazing and it was so lovely! There will be a showreel filming session or two to come out of this as well. #DevonActors #devonlife #devon #phhotography #collaboration #actors #fun #brixham #brixhamdevon #brixhamtheatre #regionalactors #britishactors #showreel #SelfTapeSuccess #auditions      A quick note - thank you to one of our long term partners for bringing this to our attention!!25/3/2025 It has just come to my attention that someone has been making contact with venues and persons, claiming to be acting on behalf of our theatre company, behind the backs of our team.
For the record, this person, (we know who it is), will not be welcome at SDP at any time in the future, and is hereby formally banned from any activity with the company. All official/ genuine communications come from [email protected] / www.facebook.com/sdevonplayers; are on headed paper with Laura Jury (founder's) home postal address or from telephone number 07855 090589. In emergency, contact may come from Mrs Lisa Highton, Mr Cedric Vince or Mr Rich Sandford but using the above email or telephone to which, in emergency, they would be supplied with access. Please can all our venues and contacts be aware of this. This is not the first time over the years we have unauthorised people try to act on our behalf, and it is simply not acceptable. Thank you Laura An absolutely wonderful launch to our theatre school in collaboration with AKP Management Agency. A wonderful mix of regular and new faces. Abi is a really experienced agent who represents a magical range of actors for productions from short films up to big name international productions. Today’s session was all about developing your professional acting profile and resume for both UK and LA castings, and then a headshot photoshoot for all attendees. A day of learning, sharing, joy, laughter, support, meeting new faces, and creativity for everyone All part of “making it happen” for local creatives and actors (which is our theatre company remit, after all) and proving professionalism isn’t just limited to the big cities. The next sessions are February: stage craft, performing live on stage. March: self tale auditions and showreels- plus filming a showreel clip for your portfolio. Tomorrow are the open auditions (all welcome to attend ) for our theatre production Romeo & Juliet - info at Open Theatre Auditions: William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (DM if you have any questions) URGENT:
Important note, please can you share to theatre contacts . This evening Laura posted our handwritten rehearsal notes for our Friday performance to our cast and crew facebook group. Facebook decided that this infringed copyright (goodness knows how as it is our own handwritten notes for a theatre production with our own company, for which script Laura personally owns the copyright as it is our in-house script) and suspended her account. Laura Jury is now unable to access facebook (!!!). Please can all actors and crew ensure they use Instagram, Bluesky, or our website (or our email [email protected] to contact us while we hope @meta sort this out (appeal sent) . Also can someone please send this to Laura Jurys fiance and ask him to use whatsapp for the time being. Also to request Kim to contact directly re moving the set and props. Please can someone else check in with Barney to check he is okay. As this will be the final show in the tour, can all cast and crew also ensure that Laura has your contacts via email to update you and arrange your share of the ticket profits for the performances which will be ready soon after the show run finishes. Actors and crew who need the notes before Friday should contact us on email. Please arrive at the theatre at 4pm to go over everything due to not being able to share the notes. Tagging @meta @facebook to please assist (appeal and explanations of why we had had written notes for our theatre show has been sent directly). (Please do not contact us with third party offers of assistance - we will only respond to official contact from Meta and Facebook) Also tagging the actors union @equityuk so that they are aware in case of any issues about getting pay to actors due to the loss of contacts etc. So, with a new year, we have a few changes at the Players - all aimed at improving and developing what we do. Don't worry! Our "mission", and plans are all the same. Theatre school First of all - we are reopening our theatre school; in conjunction with a national actors agency with a brilliant reputation. Alongside AKP Management, we are opening monthly stand-alone classes , from later in January. More information and how to sign up, can be found on our Training page. Auditions The next thing - well we have our auditions for William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet later this month as well. As always, it is an open audition and we love to welcome new faces as well as returning faces. We are bringing the show to a wonderful variety of venues in Devon and the Midlands - mostly public shows, but also some for schools and student groups. There is a wonderful range of characters and as always we love getting a diverse cast and crew together. Theatre company handbook 
One of the new things that we are bringing in, is a handbook. This is one of the things we have needed to put together at the Players, which will now be sent out to all cast and crew at the start of a new show, as a PDF e-book. You see, for many people (not all, of course), this is their first experience of taking a role in a professional touring theatre company, and especially down here away from cities, the stereotype is that all theatre is a bit of "small community amdram" and that it isnt really serious or high-quality "because it is just local". That is very hard to get around. Between being a professional group, touring high quality shows in Devon, the Midlands & in talks with London venues; working with national actors agents, and streaming internartionally, everyone is expected to adhere to professional standards both on and off stage. Each person is part of a close collaborative team, wherin the public, venues, and entertainment industry contacts all judge the theatre company and each persons professionalism; on the work of the whole. As always, we welcome people of any background and level, and so that there is a useful tool-set to hand of how things work, we have produced a "handbook" for the theatre company, which we hope will help be useful. It isnt a drama-school in a book, but it should hopefully still be of use. Video series With Romeo & Juliet, we are hoping to maintain a video-log series about the production, showing the process and work behind the scenes. We would love to put together a documentary film about this process, but lack the peoplepower and time to do it; so the video series is the logical way to do it New age restrictions in the Players From Romeo & Juliet onwards, we will not be accepting new actors or crew aged under 16. Actors who are under 16 who have previously worked with us in good standing will be welcome to rejoin us, but we will not be able to take on new performers under 16. This is for a number of reasons, the key ones cited below. The Players are not a childrens theatre company, and with touring, there are late night shows and travel, using carshares and coaches; sometimes across the UK. By UK law, actors under 16 need to be accompanied by a parent or licenced chaperone at all times in shows and rehearsals; and additonally, we have to work with the minors parents and school to obtain a licence for each under-16 to appear in a show. There has been a lot of resistance from parents in complying with these legal requirements, and it has become simply too much of a difficulty to maintain these legal requirements in running a show. Sometimes in shows, we have roles that cannot be played by minors, because of actions or subjects discussed by those characters. Despite stating the age range for those roles, we have been approached on several occaisons, by parents to cast minors of 10-12 years old, in roles which we have stated are stated as strictly over 18, resulting in bad feeling and offence when we have refused. Therefore, as a cummulative result of these issues, we have had no choice but to close the doors to under-16s.    We are very pleased to be participating in Torbay Council's new MyBay scheme, in which local organisations and businesses provide exclusive offers, discounts & freebies to local Torbay residents.
Our free offer is a necklace to any MyBay card holder at our performances. (designs may vary but there will be a number of options at any given time) To find our upcoming performances, please visit our website at https://www.southdevonplayers.com/box-office.html If you are a local resident and want to sign up for the MyBay scheme, or see what else is on offer, please visit https://www.torbay.gov.uk/my-bay/all-offers/ With many thanks to Brixham Chamber of Commerce for the talk where we found out about this. #SupportTheArts #supportheatre #supportlocalbusiness #supportlocal #torbaybusiness #torbay #devonlife #freeoffers #communitysupport #communitylove #britishtheatre #freebies #discounts |
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