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Hinterland:
MED
Theatre
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.
For
more information contact MED at
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.
For
more information contact MED at
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
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