Pop over to our AUDITIONS page to download audition pieces, and show information. 
See REVIEWS for audience reviews of our previous shows
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DEVON/ OPEN BOOK PROFITSHARE / THEATRE / ANY GENDER OR ETHNICITY/
- Roles open for actors aged 16 to the Skys the limit.

- Most roles in our staging of this play are not bound by gender; we are looking for the strongest actor for each roles.

- Any ethnicity/ accent/ experience level equally welcome. What we are looking for are great performance skills, pleasant friendly teamwork, and the desire to be an active part of a really excellent quality show.

- The styling is steampunk/mild horror. The show is suitable for all audiences .
- if you cannot make auditions August 17th please contact us to arrange an audition over the two weeks before.

- Actors should be based in, or have a base in, Devon because of attending rehearsals and performances. Sorry none of us who are regulars with the theatre team are in a financial or housing position to be able to put people up from further afield.

- Our show teams are diverse in terms of age, experience, ethnicity and we usually have several neurodivergent team members - everyone coming on board should be willing to work as a part of a diverse group of people.

- the show is profitshare for funding reasons. We cover rehearsal space/ costumes/ insurance etc by selling second hand bits on eBay and handmade jewellery in a couple of local shops. This is on an open book process where ticket sales reports and any venue costs are shown upfront for perusal, and the ticket profits are shared equally between each person in the show team. Sadly we cannot guarantee how much this is as it can very widely as is dependant on ticket sales . We constantly do our best to apply for funding to bring everyone up to equity rates but this cant be guaranteed and we don’t believe in promising what we can’t deliver.

- ALL cast and crew also are given access to portfolio photos and show video, copies of any press or promotional content featuring themselves, references on request (after completion of thier first show run with us), and anything else that we find we can offer.

- and - in answer to a common question we get: nobody is ever charged anything to audition or perform with us.
Do please drop us a line with any questions not answered here or in the downloadable audition resources.

As our tour works through, we are having the most wonderful audience feedback for our Romeo and Juliet tour - just look at what audiences are saying! This kind of theatre review for the South Devon Players is beyond valuable, and we are so thrilled! And with this one, you can see not only screenshots of feedback appearing on our social media - but also videos from audience members!

An ENORMOUS thank you to Tracey Hoidges and Willie Wilson of Paignton Photographic Club, for these incredible photos taken of our performances at Brixham Theatre. If you want to see Romeo & Fuliet on tour in Devon please c lick here on our BOX OFFICE page. 

The South Devon Players, a touring theatre company based in Brixham, with previous international arts awards for it's staging of Shakespearean plays, return to the stage with William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. With a cast of primarily local actors and stage crew; joined by actors travelling to work with the company from across the UK, based on the company's reputation for excellence; Romeo and Juliet will tour a mixture of public shows, as well as into schools and community education settings; before streaming on two dedicated theatre streaming services available across the world, highlighting the incredible talent and skills that appear in Devon based theatre, in an exciting, engaging production combining innovation with tradition. 

Tickets all available from our box office

Brixham Theatre
Town Hall, Bolton Cross, Brixham TQ5 8TA
Saturday June 14th 2025

Torquay Royal Lyceum Theatre
29 Abbey Rd, Torquay TQ2 5NQ
Saturday June 28th 2025- 7.30pm

Kingskerswell Village Hall
15 School Rd, Kingskerswell, Newton Abbot TQ12 5DJ
Saturday July 5th 2025-7.30pm

Stokenham Village Hall
Kiln Lane (by Carehouse Cross), Stokenham, near Kingsbridge, Devon TQ7 2SH
Saturday July 12 2025 - 7.30pm

Budleigh Salterton Public Hall
Station Road,
Budleigh Salterton
EX9 6RJ
Saturday July 19, 2025 - 7.30pm

Matthews Hall,
3A Fore St, Topsham,
Exeter EX3 0HF
Saturday July 26, 2025 - 7.30pm

Birmingham Black Box Theatre
9 Harford St, Birmingham B19 3EB
Saturday August 2nd, 2025 - 7.30pm

The Muse Theatre
Lipson Co-operative Academy campus, Bernice Terrace, PL4 7PG 
Saturday August 9th 2025 - 7.30pm

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

Meet some of our lovely Romeo & Juliet actors from our promo photoshoot last Saturday - many thanks to Crafty Cwtch cafe for being a great base camp, Brixham Police being very lovely when we let them know we would be filming and photographing around the town back streets. These arent all of the characters; this is the group who were able to make the photoshoot.
Public touring across Devon and up to Birmingham this summer, then stremaing online
Tickets & dates all at
https://www.southdevonplayers.com/box-office.html
Caught between violently feuding families, two young lovers seek to marry, with tragic consequences, but leading to the end of the feud.
This performance is part of a national tour and international streaming programme, involving public performances, full performances in schools, plus educational and literary talks & workshops for a variety of colleges, libraries and community groups, and a package of online content for students.
Content advisories: Suitable for audiences age 12+. Younger audience members are welcome but please be aware of the content. Please be aware that this production contains violent scenes, narcotic references & depiction of suicide.
If you have any questions about any aspect of our production, please contact us on [email protected] at any time.
www.southdevonplayers.com
Www.facebook.com/sdevonplayers

We now have tickets on sale for all public performances of Romeo & Juliet - you can book at our Box Office page. 

The public venue tour consists of 
BBRIXHAM:  June 14th  (matinee & evening)
TORQUAY: June 28th (evening)
KINGSKERSWELL/ NEWTON ABBOT: July 5th (evening)
STOKENHAM/ KINGSBRIDGE: July 12th (evening)
BUDLEIGH SALTERTON: July 19th (evening)
TOPSHAM/ EXETER: July 26th  (evening)
BIRMINGHAM: August 2nd (evening)
PLYMOUTH: August 9th (evening)

Absolutely lovely session with our monthly professional actors school in partnership with the amazing AKP Management Agency at Chestnut Community Centre today.
A small turnout for the showreels and self taping workshop today but people were amazing and it was so lovely! There will be a showreel filming session or two to come out of this as well.
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It has just come to my attention that someone has been making contact with venues and persons, claiming to be acting on behalf of our theatre company, behind the backs of our team.

For the record, this person, (we know who it is), will not be welcome at SDP at any time in the future, and is hereby formally banned from any activity with the company.

All official/ genuine communications come from
[email protected] / www.facebook.com/sdevonplayers; 
are on headed paper with Laura Jury (founder's) home postal address
or from telephone number 07855 090589.

In emergency, contact may come from Mrs Lisa Highton, Mr Cedric Vince or Mr Rich Sandford but using the above email or telephone to which, in emergency, they would be supplied with access.
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Please can all our venues and contacts be aware of this. This is not the first time over the years we have unauthorised people try to act on our behalf, and it is simply not acceptable.
Thank you
Laura