 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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Last Saturday we had a great photoshoot promoting the show at Brixham Battery Gardens, around the old WW2 bunkers, and we also got to use a jeep belonging to the parents of one of our young actors! Photos, and video trailers will be released over the next while to whet your appetite, but to start off with, here are some pictures created to test out graphics and effects for the rest of the release. Original photos by Michael Betts, Laura Jury & Simon Slade. ... And this weekend, our tour of Beowulf concluded with an excellent performance at Torquay's Royal Lyceum theatre. Now, the plans for over Christmas and the New Year, include sorting out our props and costumes from Beowulf (putting them away) and getting our props and costumes etc, for Les Misérables. It has been a fantastic show run - after a shaky start and some recasts, it came to have fabulous feedback, with a small but an amazing cast, most of whom plan to return to the stage with us in future shows and projects, and fabulous permanent relationships forged with new venues.
We were going to have stalls and fundraising on both Middle Street and in the Scala Hall, tomorrow, for Brixham's big Christmas celebration event, however with the forecast of high winds, all the Middle Street attractions have been cancelled by the organiser. Diverse Events, but we still have our stall in the Scala Hall tomorrow, from 10am to 2pm. We have some lovely costume jewelry and gifts like that for sale, and you can also come and find out about our next performances, and our upcoming auditions for Les Miserables and Macbeth, and our projects within the local community. Thank you so much to Lovely Lisa this morning for helping set up - and preparing the jewelery for display.  Given half a chance, we do a character poster for each of our actors in our shows - granted with this show, our actors are often playing more than one role, so one character has been selected for each actor - behold our Beowulf awesomes!! https://www.southdevonplayers.com/box-office.html         We would like to say an enormous thank you to our lovely team members Anne, Phil and Annie, for representing us at the Ageing Well Torbay festival. As a theatre company open to people of all ages who work together creating top quality theatre, it is so important to spread the word about our work, and welcome new actors, stage crew, helpers and audiences at every opportunity. If you met our lovely team members (or not of course! ) and would like to get involved, in any aspect, or find out more, at any time, please drop us a line any time.
 Quinn the Raven says come along to the Beowulf auditions at Chestnut Community Centre (auditions start at 1pm tomorrow- all comers welcome and everyone will be auditioned)
It’s also been arranged that when the show is cast and costumes, Beowulfs poster photoshoot will be with Quinn. (Yes there will be a cast photoshoot with Quinn!) While Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon poem, it has a strongly Norse setting as well Norse mythology, the Icelandic Sagas, and Icelandic folklore usually show the raven as a wise, all-knowing messenger and often a bird of prophecy, protector, and helper #raven #beowulf #theatre #brixhamtheatre #acting #performingarts #devontheatre #britishtheatre #auditions #cute #norse #castingcall #actors #actorslife #theatrelife This morning Laura Jury did an interview with BBC Radio Cornwall this morning about our performance of Ben Hur at St Petroc's Church, Bodmin its here, at approx 1hour 48mins in. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bx9s05 #Benhur #theatre #cornwall #devon #britishtheatre #bbc #radio #interview #actors #actorslife #church #drama #performingarts #theatretickets #regionaltheatre #whatson #fivestar #theater
Fabulous early call for photoshoot at Chestnut Community Centre with the two lead actors in our stage production of Ben Hur. By this time next week the posters will be ready. A huge thank you to Jenny for doing the photos and to Carol for sorting Judah Ben Hur’s outfit. Third photo is Spirit- a large and beautiful elderly stray dog who joined us for a little while (now reunited with his humans) #theatre #benhur #brixham #actor #actorslife #regionaltheatre #britishtheatre #torbay #acting #photoshoot #modellife #stage #performingarts #creative #dog #doggie 
We are delighted to announce that we will have a stall at this event organised by Brixham Town Council on Saturday. If you’ve ever wanted to get involved in theatre and creativity; do come along and have a chat with us to find out more. We welcome anyone aged 16-116, regardless of age, gender, experience, background, disability, who seriously wants to get involved in creating theatre and in futhering a career as a creative #Brixham #theatre #devon #torbay #regionaltheatre #britishtheatre #actors #supportarts  |
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