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Great news!  TICKET LINK: https://ivybridgewatermark.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173593965
Performing William Shakespeare's original unabridged text, the award-winning South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company, homegrown in Brixham, bring this drama to life in an all-new production. This classic tale of ambition, destiny and murder takes place in the near future, dramatized across a post-WW3 landscape, performed by a strong team of local professional actors. This show was performed in Jan/ Feb 2019 around Devon, to five star reviews and is currently nominated for a theatre award in New York. Winners of the 2017 Epic Award for England, an annual national award for groundbreaking innovation and creativity in the arts, the South Devon Players specialise in high-quality productions based on classical texts, and researched history, developing and showcasing the talent of actors and other creatives from around South Devon. Ivybridge performance will take place on Friday September 13th 2019 - 7.30pm, at The Watermark, Leonards Road, Ivybridge, Devon PL21 0SZ TEL: 01752 892220 Tickets £10 (£8 child/ concession) CONTENT - Moderate bloodshed - No strong sexual content - No strong language On Saturday and Sunday we had the cast photoshoot for the vast majority of the cast, and these photos will be going out this week (some already have) attached to press releases marketing the show! Many thanks to Brixham Theatre , one of our show venues, for letting us shoot on the stage in the morning! Photos by Andrew Barnes and Laura Jury. Shows are Friday May 31st, and June 1st at Brixham Theatre, and then June 7th at the Barnfield Theatre in Exeter. Our box office page HERE has links to all the relevant tickets! Book today!                             Brixham based theatre company's Shakespeare production nominated for theatre award in New York. Following a hugely successful production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth this winter, the South Devon Players have been nominated for a theatre award in New York, specifically the Long Island Lighthouse Theatre Awards, in the Theatre Partner Award category, specifically for productions outside the Long Island Nassau County area. As a company who (by force of circumstance, with the difficulty of finding funding in the local theatre sector) work on profit share from ticket sales to our cast and crew, we fall somewhere between the voluntary and full salary sectors, and therefore are eligible for this award. The VTAA , who sponsor this award are mainly US based (but open internationally) and are the "Equity for voluntary and low paid theatre" of which we have been an organisational member for several years. During January and February 2019, the South Devon Players performed a post-apocalyptic set production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Completely unabridged and unchanged from the original text, other than being set in a post World War 3 near-future, this production attracted such audience feedback as “The power of the final scene was such that the audience sat transfixed in silence, barely able to comprehend the beauty of what they’d just witnessed. “ “Easily on a par with the production of Macbeth we saw at the Globe” The show was almost called off, after the lead role needed to be recast with less than 10 days before opening night. French/Irish actor Christophe Lombardi stepped in, learned the role in a matter of days and travelled to the UK to take the role, alongside Ryanna-Mae Lloyd as Lady Macbeth, with a powerful team of actors; and techs. Despite this crisis, the show attracted fantastic audience feedback, from the shows at both Brixham Theatre & Torquay Museum, swiftly followed by invitations for more shows in the UK, and abroad. While work continues to get the team out to the venues abroad, the team are taking up the show invitations in the UK, at Ivybridge's Watermark theatre, and Exeter's Barnfield Theatre and are also booking additional dates at the end of the summer and during the autumn of 2019. At Brixham Theatre, the show was filmed by a local filmmaker, and the resultant film was submitted to the 2019 Long Island Community Theatre Awards. The South Devon Players were informed on April 24th 2014, that the production of Macbeth was nominated for; the outcome of the awards will be finally known on June 10th in the evening, New York time. The South Devon Players, founded in 2005/6 on the proceeds of a carboot sale, and funded in much the same way, are already winners of the national Epic Award 2017 for England, a national arts award celebrating creativity and innovation in grassroots arts, and international nominations for past productions. Based in Brixham, the Players pride themselves on supportive, friendly, and ambitious grassroots team of professional and aspiring professional actors at all stages of their careers, who primarily specialise in researched historical theatre productions and Classics, to provide an opportunity for local people to develop their skills in creating shows to a national standard, in order to develop internationally recognised professional skills, portfolios and credits. They always welcome new performers and creatives who would like to get involved. The Players are working hard to be able to offer more education, steady employment, and more regular shows at an international standard. Laura Jury (Director) studied performing arts at South Devon College, then a Bachelors degree in film & TV production from the University of Plymouth, before progressing to a Masters in teaching theatre from Exeter University With a history of performing since 1996, and directing since 2000, in between her training she has also pursued a career as a professional performer, and in 2006 founded the now multi award-winning South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company with three others, to create new projects in Torbay.
 Open auditions for our production of Les Miserables.
Based off the original novel by Victor Hugo, this show requires a full cast, aged from 10 - 70, male and female, for named speaking roles. It is a non-musical dramatic adaptation of the novel, for full scale stage performance. All roles except "grown up Cosette" open for casting, please scroll down for a list of all roles being cast. AUDITION INFORMATION PACK AVAILABLE FROM https://www.southdevonplayers.com/auditions.html Auditions are on Sunday Feb 10th 2019, at Chestnut Community centre, 1-3 Poplar Close, Brixham, Devon TQ5 0SA. Please arrive to begin at 1pm. (doors open from 12). . Castings will take the form of reading and characterising excerpts from the script. As with all our in-house shows, all persons appearing as cast and crew for this production will be entitled to remuneration as - equal profit share (ticket-take less venue hire cost) - portfolio photos and video for portfolio use - copies of all press in which the character is featured - programme credit (and anything else we find that we are able to offer) More information on our audition process is to be found at https://www.southdevonplayers.com/auditions.html THERE IS NO CHARGE TO AUDITION OR BE INVOLVED WITH US. SHOWS Brixham, Torquay, Plymouth, on Friday-Saturdays in June 2019 REHEARSALS Rehearsal dates: Wednesday evenings 7pm - 9.30pm, Sundays 12.30pm - 5pm, at Chestnut Community Centre, 1-3 Poplar Close, Brixham, Devon, TQ5 0SA, the same as the auditions. For this reason, priority will be given to performers who live in the South Devon region. Please note that you will be expected to attend regular rehearsals. NOTES Due to previous incidents we need to state that 1) All cast will need to be able to attend regular rehearsals, and to be able to learn characterisation, lines and blocking, 2) Actors will be required to wear costumes 3) All people in the production are expected to adhere to socially acceptable behaviour at all times. 4) Performances are on an open-book equal-profit share basis. 5) We welcome performers of all backgrounds. MORE ABOUT US www.southdevonplayers.com www.facebook.com/sdevonplayers www.twitter.com/sdevonplayers www.instagram.com/sdevonplayers1 ROLES BEING CAST: (Key: *= roles we may be able to combine, L= large roles) Roles spanning both acts Jean Valjean (middle-aged or older male) L Javert (middle-aged or older male) L Thenadier(male) Madame Thenadier (female) L Roles in Act 1 Brevet (male, convict) Fantine (female, single mother) L Factory Boss (male or female) L Bambataois (male roustabout and fop) * Little Cosette (female child around 12/ 13 years -Fantine’s daughter) * Bishop (male) * Mlle Baptistine (female, Bishop’s housekeeper) * Innkeeper in Digne (Male or female) * Petit Gervais (child, age 9 - 13, ideally male, otherwise female) * Factory girl 1 (female) * Factory girl 2 (female) * Sister Simplice (female, nun who takes care of Fantine after her rescue) “Gendarme” (male, policeman) * Estella (female, prostitute) * Bernardo (Male, sailor)* Sailor (male, sailor) * Landlord (Ideally male, otherwise female, who tells Jean to leave his inn) * Prosecutor (Male, at the trial of Champmanthieu) * Champmanthieu (male, needs to be a similar build to Jean, as mistaken for Jean) * Crowds: Factory workers (female) * Prostitutes (female) * ACT 2 Marius (male. Law student, revolutionary) L Enjolras (male, student, revolutionary, very dedicated to his cause) L Grantaire (male, student, revolutionary but more interested in a few drinks) L Mlle Gillenormand (female, Marius’s aunt) L Coufeyrac (male, law student, friend of Marius) L Eponine (female, almost destitute, in love with Marius, but her interest is not returned) L Gavroche (child, street urchin with an attitude age 8 - 13 – male) Jean Prouvaire (male, student, revolutionary, much quieter spoken than the others) * Madame Mabeuf (female – male in the book, but changed to female for ease of casting, elderly bookshop owner whose shop went out of business) * Le Cabuc (Ideally male. revolutionary and a generally not very nice person! )* Toussaint (female, Jean and Cosettes housekeeper. ) Madame St Just (female, homeowner killed by Le Cabuc) *  We are delighted to announce that the tickets are on sale earlier than expected, for our winter production of Macbeth! "Performing William Shakespeare's original unabridged text, the award-winning South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company, homegrown in Brixham, bring this drama to life in an all-new production. This classic tale of ambition, destiny and murder takes place in the near future, dramatized across a post-WW3 Scottish landscape, performed by a strong team of local professional and semi-professional actors. Winners of the 2017 Epic Award for England, an annual national award for groundbreaking innovation and creativity in the arts, the South Devon Players specialise in high-quality productions based on classical texts, and researched history, developing and showcasing the talent of actors and other creatives from around South Devon. You can get your tickets for Brixham Theatre, for performances January 18th - 19th, from their ticketing section https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/devon/brixham-theatre/macbeth And you can get your tickets for Torquay Museum, from our ticketing platform https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/southdevonplayers
Have a great night out, and support your local artistic community, at a beautiful, family-run traditional harbourside pub.
There are 8 rounds, of 10 general knoweldge questions in each round, with a break in the middle to refill at the bar! Entry is £10 per team (payable on the day), teams may comprise up to 6 entrants each. Please contact us on southdevonplayers@gmail.com with any questions or if your team wish to reserve a table in advance. Many thanks to all of our lovely helpers at our fundraising stand at the Brixham Pirate Festival - we raised invaluable funds for our productions :) Also many thanks to Judi for allowing us to use the space, and to the local Brixham Police, and festival security, for coming along and volunteering to be in our stocks :)  A researched historical medieval theatre production
telling of the fall of the Knights Templar, & the surrounding legends and accusations of heresy. Performed by a professional, nationally-award-winning theatre team. BRIXHAM VENUE Brixham Theatre New Road, Brixham TQ5 8TA BRIXHAM SHOW DATES: June 22nd; Curtain up at 7.30pm, June 23rd Curtain up at, 2.30pm and 7.30pm PRICES Tickets £8 (full) £7 ( conc) BOOKING http://tickets.brixhamtheatre.uk or call 01803 415987 _________________________________________ Historically a monastic order of crusading knights in the middle ages, the Knights Templar began from humble origins, but soon became a powerful, international organisation, answerable only to the Pope, and institutionally extremely wealthy. As the medieval crusades failed, so did the Templars, and in 1307, among accusations of heresy, and treason, the senior members of the Order were arrested. Legend tells that their wealth, seen by eyewitnesses only months before, had vanished. With the accusations of heresy upheld, the Order was disbanded, and the last Grandmaster, Jacques de Molay, burned at the stake in 1314. Legends remain. What became of the Templars treasure? Were they really heretics, or victims of a political trap? Legends tell of them protecting various secrets, including those that could destroy the church - some of those legends relate to the Holy Grail; the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, or lost gospels, or even that Jesus himself had descendants who lived on through the ages. Based tightly on the history, and some of the theories, the film follows Hughes and Angelo, formally of Jacques de Molays inner council, from the fall of Acre, to Paris, and then as they go on the run to the Bristol preceptory, tonwards to Templecombe in Somerset and then to Trebeigh in Cornwall . Linking these three historical southwest Templar holdings and the existing mysteries surrounding the Templars into the tale, the final secret is revealed.... This production also features an exhibition of the painstaking research behind the scriptwriting, of the inquisition against the Templars, and of their historical links to the Southwest The show also features especially composed music by Grace Hancock from Exeter. __________________________________ CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION OR FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA www.southdevonplayers.com Facebook & Twitter: @sdevonplayers Instagram: @sdevonplayers1 email: southdevonplayers@gmail.com |
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