The South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company News

BBC Radio Interview

20/4/2022

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

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Ben Hur - fantastic Brixham feedback

10/4/2022

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So proud of our brilliant team of actors and crew for creating this amazing production of Ben Hur on stage -. The feedback from the first three performances of Ben Hur at Brixham Theatre has been phenomenal, as well as lots of incredible verbal feedback, we have also had some amazing written feedback for everyone as shown below. We now go on to bring the show to St Thomas the Martyr Church in Bristol, Stoke Damerel Church in Plymouth, St Petroc's Church, Bodmin, and Penlee Park Open Air Theatre - as well as screening a filmed performance at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Booking details at https://www.southdevonplayers.com/box-office.html

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Ben Hur opens tomorrow!

7/4/2022

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Technical rehearsal on sound/ lighting and partial backdrops, yesterday. Full set will be up tonight, ready for tomorrows and Saturdays performances of Ben Hur at Brixham Theatre

"BEN HUR" coming this week to Brixham Theatre
Book now!
Brixham Theatre
Bolton Cross
Brixham TQ5 8TA
April 8th 7.30pm
April 9th 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Tickets £10 (£8)
Bookings: https://www.brixhamtheatre.co.uk
Tel: 01803 415987
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Based on the classic 19th Century novel by Lew Wallace,
Ben Hur is a meticulously crafted stage drama, packed with drama, action, and hope, set across the 1st Century Roman Empire. The story follows a young prince who is accused of attempted murder, sentenced to die as a galley slave, but survives, eventually returning to his homeland, to find that his mother and sister are missing. Despite exacting revenge against the Roman commander who destroyed his family, he finds no peace - until once again his life is changed by two slaves he freed, and a man from Nazareth...
As with all shows from The South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company, this production is suitable for teens and adults.
We produce a free online education pack on our website for students covering aspects of creating the production, a news blog, historical & cultural research, and more.
We also provide full accessibility information for each performance on our website: https://www.southdevonplayers.com/benhurbrixham.html
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Education pack addition - Ben Hur: British Sign Language

26/1/2022

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Part of our show education packs for students traditionally, is a video showing ten words from the show in BSL (British Sign Language.)
Sarah Gregori has kindly created this video for our Ben Hur education pack, and also added in the full alphabet in BSL as well.
This video is subtitled as well.
Feel free to share to anyone who may find it useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9URt2-OlrE

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Thank you so much

21/1/2022

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Two amazing local organisations supporting our work this week- we are so grateful to both.
Enormous thank you to Brixham Town Council for approving a grant to pay for our rehearsal space for the next 12 months covering the rest of our rehearsals for Ben Hur, and then for our following show Beowulf, creating loads of creative opportunities for local people. This is an enormous help- thank you so much to the Council
Also an equally huge thank you to Brixham Sea Rangers for providing the wooden oars for our lovely galley slaves in our theatre production of Ben Hur following our shoutout on Facebook.
#theatre #regionaltheatre #thankyou #britishtheatre #brixham #torbay #acting #actorslife #supportarts #supportheatre #benhur #gratitude

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Photoshoots and stray doggies!

16/1/2022

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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)
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January 07th, 2022

7/1/2022

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So good to be getting back to rehearsals for Ben Hur after Christmas with a fabulous cast and crew .

We are also delighted to announce that we have been able to cast the role of Quintus Arrius, who is now being played by the lovely Tim Herbert, a barrister who has recently moved from New Zealand to Torbay, and loves acting in his spare time.

#theatre #acting #actorslife #benhur #brixham #brixhamtheatre #britishtheatre #rehearsals #regionaltheatre #stage #devon #happynewyear2022 #awesome

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Covid safety document updated

25/12/2021

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We have updated our Covid-safety document in order to formalise and describe what we are doing to keep our actors, crew, and venue visitors/ staff safe.

This is of course a living document as regulations may change at any time

Venues will have specific safety policies in line with the venue needs and legislation in place at the time of the shows, which we will also share with our cast & crew, and on the box office page.

Our document updated for December can be downloaded here:

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Wishing everyone a very safe, and positive 2022

23/12/2021

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We would like to wish everyone a very positive and safe festive season and the same for 2022 (and beyond of course!)
Its been a tough year again for the performing arts industry, and for everyone on a personal/ health/ mental level, but it cannot go on for ever. Keep the faith, look after one another, and we will all come through. <3

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December 12th, 2021

12/12/2021

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Some of the Roman swords and shields and helmets arrived today for our theatre production of Ben Hur- and will be prepared for the show over the next little while.
Many thanks to funding from Tesco community fund via Groundwork.
Getting reenactment gear wherever possible is brilliant for us with historical- set shows because it can add a brilliant dimension of realism to the show as well as an educational dimension for learning about historical aspects for both actors and audiences.
#theatre #acting #actors #Romans #brixham #tescocommunityfund #benhur #devon #regionaltheatre #britishtheatre #actorslife #stageproduction