The South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company News

The first of our crafting sessions

1/10/2026

Some of our fundraising team spent Saturday hard at work at the first of our crafting sessions, making all manner of lovely craft items for our fundraising stalls coming up over the next months for our coming 2027 productions . There will be several more sessions of making coming up!
With huge thanks to everyone who joined in!

Working with Torbay RNLI

1/10/2026

A beautiful thank you card recieved by our team from RNLITorbay for our performance about the 1866 Great Gale of Brixham at Stormfest .
It was an absolute pleasure!

The Scarlet Pimpernel tour - massive success in London, and now planning auditions for the next show.

2/8/2026

The show tour of The Scarlet Pimpernel is over.

60+ handmade 18th century costumes are being cleaned and put away, and what a run it has been. Two months of frenetic touring to a different venue every weekend, culminating with our London debut, is finally behind is, and it was truly a show, and a team, worthy of our 20th anniversary.

The finale- our London debut- sold out- yes the theatre manager confirmed full house. The audience loved it and multiple people were stopping us to ask about us and say how good it was on the way out.
We have been asked to come back to London soon - and about our streaming. (if you are looking to stream more of our work please visit Roku or Amazon Fire, and search for the VOMO channel. )

A huge thank you to the team for working so incredibly- every single cast and crew member of The Scarlet Pimpernel should be incredibly proud.

A huge thank you to Janet of Crafty Cwtch cafe for supplying us with an incredible picnic for the journey: and we cant forget that our London debut was made possible by Brixham Pirate Festival allowing us the space to have a stall to fundraise for the cost of hiring the minibus.

London has absolutely not seen the last of us. This is only the beginning.

In the meantime, back in Brixham, we have our open auditions for our next (Devon only) tour of Jack the Ripper, on August 16th 2026, and we would love to see you there.
All the audition information is at our AUDITIONS page

A look at the Scarlet Pimpernel on stage.

16/6/2026

A brilliant opening to the tour at Brixham Theatre - have a look at these photos!
Pictures by Robbie Clymo, Cliff Luke and David Sneyd. Audience feedback has been wonderful, and we are looking forward to the rest of the tour. That includes Exeter, Budleigh Salterton, Kingsbridge, Torquay, Buckfastleigh, Kingskerswell, and London - you can check the dates etc (and buy tickets) at our box office HERE

Pictures from David Sneyd

Pictures from Robbie Clymo

Photos by Cliff Luke

South Devon Players on international TV

23/4/2026

Jekyll & Hyde, our sellout show from last winter is now added to our streaming collection on Vomo - you can currently watch Macbeth, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Romeo & Juliet, the Cormorant, and Jekyll & Hyde.
Vomo is a channel available on Amazon Fire TV and Roku with lots of varied great independent content , and we are thrilled to have an ongoing deal with them.
#theatre #theatrelife #brixhamdevon #TorbayHour #macbeth #jekyllandhyde #midsummernightsdream #RomeoAndJuliet #brixham #brixhamtheatre #roku #amazon #streaming #tv #britishtheatre #torbay #devon #devonlife

Our plant fundraising stall is underway

3/4/2026

The first of our fundraising plants for sale at @sweet memories on Fore Street with huge thanks to amazing Diane Wright
Currently- Jade plants, raspberry, blackcurrant, oregano, lemon balm
Lots more to come over the next few weeks

New streaming partner - Our shows will now be available on Roku

17/3/2026

Following a brilliant evening discussion with Aqua Jones who runs the channel, we are super excited to announce some of our recent shows are now available on your TV at home through Roku, via The Vibe Out Media Outlet's channel Vomo (to add Vomo to your Roku, just login to your Roku and add the free Vomo app to your account). Of course, more shows will be added as time goes on. Vomo is a female-run powerhouse of diverse creativity, that we are delighted to partner with.
Our upcoming shows (usually as filmed at Brixham Theatre) will be added a few weeks after the finish of the live on stage tours.
App photos as photographed off the TV tonight.

The Scarlet Pimpernel - costume team underway

21/2/2026

On Wednesday our incredible costume team have been designing some of the costumes.
Our theatre production of The Scarlet Pimpernel with 14 cast, requires around 50 costumes to be made to reproduce the clothing styles of the 1790s both in England and over in the midst of the French Revolution.
How are we managing this?

In our usual tradition of both being eco friendly and managing our large period dramas on microscopic budgets, the vast majority of our fabrics, lace ribbon etc, are from second hand sources. Curtains, sheets, upholstery fabric, tablecloths, all found via charity shops and jumble sales, to be remade into these (and other) stunning outfits by Bethany, Carol and Margot.

This is the first design day of several, so our costume team were very busy before the cast arrived for evening rehearsals
Come no see our show across Devon and London - info at https://www.southdevonplayers.com/box-office.html

#DevonActors #rehearsal #devon #scarletpimpernel #supporttheatre brixham gratitude behindthescenes britishtheatre recycling costume costumedesign zerowaste theatre brixhamtheatre 18thcentury perioddrama

Video by @xxbethscreationsxx

When being a part of the community ends in straitjackets

26/11/2025

Community support can show in lots of different ways. We made a quick loan of our costume department straitjackets to a local shop for a promotional social media photoshoot. The shop in question, Vimutti is a wondeful quirky antiques and coffee shop in Brixham Fore Street.
#CommunitySpirit #humour #fun #theatre #costume #supportlocalbusiness #SupportLocal #laughter

At Brixham Lights & Illuminations 2025

26/11/2025

Thank you so much to Sarah Bell of A Kick Up The Arts for the beautiful star lantern, to Crafty Cwtch for being a great meeting point, Allie and Nick of The Naked Sheep Hayle and our own Rich for helping with the parade and flying the flag (or lantern) for us, to Tristan MR FISH for being friendly and fun, Chris Slack for a couple of extra super photos, to @diverse events and Brixham Town Council for organising the parade - also lovely so see so many bright lanterns etc from everyone . We have already started planning for next year