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Community Play 2010

Touring to venues across Dartmoor in March. A brand new play written by local playwright Mark Beeson about the life of Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt. The play will be performed by a transgenerational cast of community members.

Performance Dates:

Saturday 6th March -

Manaton Parish Hall, 7.30pm

Wednesday 10th March -

West Exe Technology College, Exeter, 7.30pm

Thursday 11th March -

Princetown Primary School, 7.30pm

Friday 12th March -

Moretonhampstead Parish Hall, 7.30pm

Saturday 13th March -

Moretonhampstead Parish Hall, 2.30 and 7.30pm

Tickets £7, £6 conc, £3.50 children

For more information or to book tickets, please contact MED Theatre on 01647 441356 or email info@medtheatre.co.uk

Wild Nights Young Company

The Wild Nights Young Company are MED Theatre's young theatre company who plan, write and perform their own plays. At the end of 2009 the company performed their site-specific play All That Was Left Behind at the Dartmoor Prison Museum, and also in Moretonhampstead Parish Hall.

Wild Nights Young People's Company is open to anyone aged between 13 and 19 years of age.The company meets every Tuesday evening 7-9 pm in the MED Theatre Studio in Moretonhampstead.

info@medtheatre.co.uk

01647 441356

Children's Drama Clubs:

Bright Lights and Bright Nights

The clubs meet every Tuesday evening during term time.

The meetings are:

5-5.45pm for the 8-10 year old Bright Lights, and

5.45-6.45pm for the 10-12 year old Bright Nights.

The members of the clubs currently work on play writing one week and the alternate week on drama games and exercises.The groups meet in the MED Theatre Studio in Moretonhampstead.

info@medtheatre.co.uk

01647 441356

The Magic of the Hare

Free Community Drama-Movement Workshop

This community workshop was for adults and young people in the February 2010 half term. The magical animal of the hare wasl explored through storytelling, movement and performance.

Dartmoor Prison, 1815...

All That Was Left Behind

a site-specific play created by young people about love, jealousy and life around Dartmoor's famous prison during the Napoleonic wars. Wild Nights Young Company performed with other young people from Princetown in this ground-breaking piece of drama at the end of 2009.

Brown Hare Movement Workshop

MED Theatre's new dance-drama project, supported by the Dartmoor National Park Authority and Teignbridge District Council, continued with a Hare - moving arts in the natural environment workshop for 14-21 year olds on Sunday 18th October, 2pm-5pm, at CCANW in Haldon Forest. The participants explored the relationship with the Hare symbols found in myths from Dartmoor through movement, writing, drawing and story, led by choreographer Rosalyn Maynard.

Work Experience At MED Theatre

Three work experience students completed their week working at MED Theatre in summer 09: Lark Ash Wheeler, Linnea Duckworth and Saoirse Corkery. They helped with Widecombe Primary School on the year 5 and 6 play, as well as admin work and website administration. They really enjoyed themselves!

A Radio Play on Dartmoor

This project was run at Coombeshead College

Monday 20th - Thursday 24th July 2009, 10 am - 3 pm, for 10-13 year olds.

Poster Link

MED Theatre's current programme of work

has been financially supported by:

Futurebuilders England , Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Garfield Weston, Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund, Dartmoor National Park Authority, Claude and Margaret Pike Woodlands Trust, Gcap Media, Heritage Lottery Fund, Lloyds TSB Foundation, Teignbridge District Council, West Devon Borough Council and Pennon Group plc.. Sponsorship for 'Snow' came from RK Shipman, Helpful Holidays and the Met Office.