 Coming up on our 20th anniversary year, we have an amazing team, but are a bit short handed for some things behind the scenes, so we are putting this call out.
We are a well established, lively and friendly theatre company based in Brixham, bringing classical literature to life in lively and often groundbreaking shows, to local venues ranging from theatres to village halls, across south Devon, and each summer up to the Midlands. We are looking for lovely people who would like to be involved as - stage crew - front of house welcomers/ ushers - publicity assistants - fundraising stall helpers - grant bid writers The only criteria are that you have a passion for high quality regional theatre, are aged 16+ (to the skys the limit), are reliable and trustworthy, and willing to help maintain a pleasant friendly atmosphere. For things like publicity and grants, we do need good literacy as well. Time and location committment vary by the role, we try to keep things as flexible as possible without jepoardising the theatre productions, the most important thing is that everyone does the things they have agreed to do, because in a team, each person relies on everyone else to do thus. What do you get out of it? you make likeminded friends who are passionate about the arts and literature, you can build up a portfolio, references and new skills (we can also run things as college/ university work experience), you can network with a wide range of our contacts in the creative industries, join in theme photoshoots and side projects, and contribute to an important part of the local cultural landscape. And have fun! If you would like to find out more, please drop us a DM on this page or an email to [email protected] to arrange for a friendly chat about it over coffee, or a visit to see one of our rehearsals or building sessions.
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Thank you very much to TescoBrixham for having us to vote for when you do your shop- if you do shop in there grab a blue counter to vote for us, it all helps us raise funds for our theatre work !! Many thanks to Groundwork as well. #brxhamtheatre #brixham #supporttheatre #fundraisng #theatre #britishtheatre   The Vigilance (https://www.vigilancewww.vigilanceofbrixham.co.ukofbrixham.co.uk)is a Brixham sialing Trawler built at Upham’s Yard in Brixham in 1926 - she was the last one ever built; and is typical of the towns traditional red sailed trawlers built in the 1800s, and early 20th Century. It is maintained by a wonderful team of local volunteers, and has just been undergoing a huge refit. We collaborated with the Vigilance, and with two amazing photographers, Tracey Hodges and Chris Vicenti from Paignton Photographic Club (http://www.ppcphotography.org.uk) These photographs will be used by the models, photographers and the Vigilance, for respective portfolios, and recreating local historical town heritage. Some of the photos by Tracey Hodges                    Some of the photos by Chris Vicenti                          As well as theatre shows and streaming, we also love to do themed photoshoots - usually in collaboration with other local organisations. Today several of our team had an absolutely wonderful afternoon working with the Vigilance of Brixham a stunning old fishing trawler that is currently being renovated, to recreate olden late 1800s/early 1900s photos on board, such as you would have seen from the time that the Vigilance was built. This shoot was one of our collaborations with Paignton Photographic Club with Tracey Hodges and Chris Vicenti. There are lots of photos to edit up, which will be used by our actors, the Vigilance, and the photographic club. Over the next week or two there will be lots of beautiful photos - but here is a quick look behind the scenes! And look at the wonderful feedback from the photographers! And - many thanks to The Prince William, Brixham for accomodating us all coming in for coffee afterwards! There are already discussions about the next themed photoshoots, to which local photographers will be invited, and our actors/ crew as models. 
As our tour works through, we are having the most wonderful audience feedback for our Romeo and Juliet tour - just look at what audiences are saying! This kind of theatre review for the South Devon Players is beyond valuable, and we are so thrilled! And with this one, you can see not only screenshots of feedback appearing on our social media - but also videos from audience members!
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)
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)  For our tour of Romeo & Juliet- and going forward - we are looking for a third technical person to join our regular team starting in January 2025 (opportunities to shadow current project in advance as well)
This person needs to be locally based (Torbay etc), able to attend rehearsals in Brixham and come to our performances in the South Devon area . The requirement is to learn the sound and lighting for the show, and be able to cover for either our lighting person or sound person if one or other is away; and also to be involved in recording our performances at Brixham (lumix camera provided). All equipment is provided- some of our venues (the community ones) require use of our portable LED lights and sound system, other venues have thier own systems in-house. Techs (the same as everyone else involved in our productions) recieve an equal split of the ticket money from the performances as things stand (its like this because we don’t get funding and our fundraising selling second hand bits on eBay and handmade jewelry via a local market and a local shop) only covers rehearsal space/ costumes/ etc, ) we do keep applying for things to change this situation but haven’t had any luck yet! The tech person can be any age over 16, if new to tech we are very happy to train them how to do it all, they should be happy to be involved with a very diverse group of people and have an inclusive outlook, besides that we look for someone who is reliable, pleasant, communicative (as working with our team and also venue staff ), wants to be part of a lively can-do team, and like everyone else in our productions, be aiming either to launch or further a career in the creative industries and make awesome shows! If you’re interested- drop our page a DM or email [email protected] |
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