Diary

BRIGHT LIGHTS/NIGHTS -

Next session: Playwriting

Tuesday 25th June, 2013

WILD NIGHTS - Next session:

Tuesday 25th June, 2013

Free Drama Taster Workshop

Wednesday 15th May

6.30pm-7.30pm

Chagford Jubilee Hall

Fantastic new youth theatre project starting for 13-19 year olds on Dartmoor called Dartmoor in World War One. Come along to our taster workshop in Chagford to try it out.

In the Shadow of the Vikings - Community Play 2013

MED Theatre's new community play followed the story of Aelfthryth, a Dartmoor girl who became queen of England in the 10th century. The play charted the politics of the time from the point of view of Devon, creatiing a vivd and moving account of the end of the Anglo-Saxon era.

The play toured to Manaton, Mary Tavy, Lustleigh and Moretonhampstead village halls in March 2013, and was well attending by regular and new audiences.

DARTFEST 2012 - a Dartmoor festival of young people's playwriting

Dartfest 2012 was a dramatic collection of five short plays performed over two evenings on 30th November and 1st December 2012 at Moretonhampstead Parish Hall, which explored the themes of water, the Dartmoor environment and much more through the eyes of teenagers. The production was a Wild Nights Young Company production, part of MED Theatre's year long Catchment programme for young people supported by the Arts Council England and the National Lottery.

ADDER -

an outdoor dance-theatre performance

Adder was a new dance-theatre outdoor performance developed by MED Theatre, interweaving the ecology and folklore of the controversial animal into a poetic melange of storytelling, movement and music.

It was performed in The Sentry, Moretonhampstead and Lustleigh Orchard on two beautiful days in September 2012.

CATCHMENT -

COMMUNITY PLAY 2012

MED Theatre's new community play toured to Dartmoor venues in March 2012. The play explored the contemporary and relevant themes of water catchments and school catchments. Contact us if you would like to buy the video.

Click here for further details

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.

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 2011 the company performed their site-specific play John Ford's Story at the Buckland Abbey, and also at Burrator Resevoir.

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 will be performing original plays they have written and directed as part of Dartfest 2012.

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

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.