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!
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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

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)

Absolutely thrilled to be contacted yesterday by another film production casting for regional actors - and a role being suitable for one of our lovely ladies from Ben Hur- who is now submitting her selftape. We wish her all the best of good luck with it!
​Getting brilliantly talented local people “seen” and on the performance career ladder, is a huge one of our aims.


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Huge congratulations to our lovely Ben Hur cast members Parascovia and Phil. We were recently approached by a film company seeking fully paid local actors for a new commercial being filmed tomorrow- and these two awesome people were selected. This is fabulous - after all, the reason that we were founded in the first place is to support local people in building their careers as freelance actors and creatives - and with the fees coming to them from the commercial film company, they will both be eligible (should they wish) to apply for their Equity cards!
Have a wonderful time filming both of you!
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Have you wanted to create voiceovers or demo videos for a product? Connect with audiences using video and voiceover? If so, we have a fantastic team of professional male and female actors, all with their own home studios, and recording equipment, who are available to record for you. During the Covid pandemic, we are all accustomed to working online and creating from our home studios. We can do the same for you. 
Our team members are happy to audition so that you can find the perfect fit for your requirements. 

If you feel we can help, and would like to discuss further, please email us on [email protected] to discuss. 

Our company founder, Laura Jury, recently entered a Shakespeare project run by the Globe Theatre.
Her "angry drunk" Hamlet monologue was one of those picked for the Globe Theatre's Shakespeare Solo / Shakespeare from quarantine project - and there she is in the header image (middle of the far left column, holding the vodka bottle). :)
Considering that the Globe is pretty much as prestigious as you can get when it comes to Shakespeare...that is quite a feat. 
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You can view the link below at: 
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2020/apr/23/all-the-worlds-a-stage-shakespeare-performed-around-the-world-in-quarantine-video

Laura's original audition video can be viewed here. 

Shows & Performance dates: 

Brixham - As you may have seen, most theatres have closed for the time being (our home venue Brixham Theatre is closed until May, as things stand). We have resceduled our performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream there for August (details now updated on our Box Office page). 

Brixham Brixfest - our excerpt performance of acts 2 & 3 of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Brixfest in May, is cancelled, as Brixfest, an annual festival celebrating local arts, culture and business itself is cancelled. We will be working with them to perform in 2021 - discussions have already commenced

Plymouth - We are planning to reschedule oour performance st Stoke Damerel Church in Plymouth also to August, but we are currently awaiting a reply from the churchwarden to discuss new dates. When this occurs, all tickets bought for the current date will be honoured, or can be refunded (no quibble), if the new date does not suit.

Bristol - We have discussed with Bristol Shakespeare Festival, who are working on the best case scenario to run still in July. Both the festival and the venue are very happy to have us, and so as things stand, this date will go ahead. If we are forced to postpone, we will postpone until later in August/ September, and then perform "under our own steam". 

We are also exploring the possibility of online broadcasts and readings/ performances. 

Rehearsals: 
The vast majority of our rehearsals have now moved online, to protect the health of our actiors and crew;  using the video-conferencing programm / app, Zoom. Cast and crew should stay in regular contact via email or Facebook with the team, as we send the conference links out to everyone on a twice-weekly basis, and send out updates about online work opportunities for actors for our team. 

​Castings for Jack the Ripper
Our audition date in late July, remains as-is. We hope that the worst of the crisis will be over by then, but if it is not, we will be looking at alternate ways to cast the show and send out scripts etc to cast. Please keep an eye on our news, social media and the auditions page for any updates. People who have emailed us will be updated as well. 


Making online work
In this current crisis, most work for actors and crew has dried up - even big TV series and film shoots have cancelled. This leaves the nations entertainers unable to pay rent or the bills. We are doing our best to help our team with creating various online work opportunities. All we can do is but try, and do our best, rather than giving up. 
Our first opportunity for our team is offering online tutoring for adults and children; chiefly in drama and English, but also in other subjects as well, by an expert team of creatives. We are in the process of setting up, but expect to have it done open for business by Sunday March 21st 2020. You can find it at ONLINE TUTORING SERVICE.  In the interim, if you would like to be contacted as soon as this service is live,  please email us on [email protected]. 
You or your loved ones will be able to access expert tutoring, and also support some of our nations entertainers and creatives, during this hard time.