Diary

BRIGHT LIGHTS/NIGHTS

Next sessions:

Tue 7th Feb

Playwriting - Bright Lights

Tues 7th Feb

Film making - Bright Nights

THE RIB

MED Theatre staged a new comic play by writer Vanessa McCartney inspired by the research of Sabine Baring-Gould on the acts of wife-selling on Victorian Dartmoor. The play was performed in Moretonhampstead Parish Hall on the weekend of November 19th 2011 to a sold out audience.

JOHN FORD ON DARTMOOR

Wild Nights Young Company performed their play John Ford's Story at Buckland Abbey and Burrator Reservoir on 24th/25th September 2011. The performance took the audience into the 17th century world of Dartmoor's little-known playwright John Ford, through a 17th century style fair, along with a film and striking performance including acting, music and dance.

NEW LIFE IN TREES

MED Theatre carried out the third workshop in their Trees series on Sunday 8th May as part of the National Trust's Full Bloom Festival that took place at Parke in Bovey Tracey. Drama exercises and games were used to explore a story about an orchard from greek mythology, which effectively came to life as the workshop was taking place in the setting of an actual orchard. Family participants learnt about how and why trees are important to us ecologically and personally.

Look out for our next tree workshop later on this year!

TREES STORIES

Eighteen family learning participants workshopped the importance of trees in our everyday lives and explored folklore inspired by trees, on Friday 25th February at the National Trust property Castle Drogo. They used drama and storytelling to bring to life the stories with professionals from MED Theatre.

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Community play 2011

This contemporary comedy about land use on Dartmoor was performed in Manaton Parish Hall on Saturday March 12th, in Scoriton Village Hall on Wednesday March 16th, Princetown Primary School on Thursday March 17th, and Moretonhampstead Parish Hall on Friday March 18th and Saturday March 19th (matinee and evening).

DARTFEST 2010

The two day festival held over the weekend of 3rd and 4th December celebrated young playwrights on Dartmoor, through the performance of a collection of fast-paced, edgy plays written, acted and directed by young people.

LORICUM VIDEO GAME PROJECT

In this innovative project a group of 13 - 19 year olds creates a video game from scratch, based on a play young people wrote about the flooding of a Dartmoor valley to make a reservoir and the mixed local reaction.

For information on how to get your copy of the game, contact MED Theatre via

info@medtheatre.co.uk or

01647 441356

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.

In November this year they performed 8 original plays they had written and directed as part of Dartfest 2010.

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.

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BRIGHT LIGHTS/NIGHTS

Next sessions:

Tue 7th Feb

Playwriting - Bright Lights

Tues 7th Feb

Film making - Bright Nights

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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

MED Theatre's current programme of work

has been financially supported by:

Futurebuilders England, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Foyle Foundation, Garfield Weston, Dartmoor Sustainable Development Fund, Claude and Margaret Pike Woodlands Trust, Teignbridge District Council, Teignbridge Youth Network, West Devon Borough Council, Pennon Group PLC and Helpful Holidays.