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The Plays
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(All plays are written by Mark Beeson
except where specified)
Childe the Hunter
The Swallows
The Wilderness
The Unknown
The Therapists
Kitty
Jay
Story
The
Kitty Jay Project
Loricum
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Full-scale stage plays
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The
Dragon and the Mermaid - 1994
(Mock Abbot play written by Lindesay
Mace, Kate Oliver, Sadie Butler, Tina Shilston, Ben Yates)
- The British in Exeter -
1997
- The White Bird of the Oxenhams
- 1997
- A History of Dartmoor Theatre
-1998
- The Audience - 1999 (Written
by Lindesay Mace)
- Kitty Jay
- 1999 (Created by Gillian Webster and Ruth Way)
- The Calling of Jan Coo
- 1999 (Created by Gillian Webster and Ruth Way)
- The 82 - 2000
(Devised by Connie Smith,
Jess Avis, Gillian Pipe, Wilf Merttens, Tim Warre, Tom Randall-Page)
- The Forest on the Hill
- 2002
- Story - 2003
(The
Fox of Jay's Grave by Daisy Martinez, Willow by Jaye Noble, Running
Water by Heather Holcroft-Pinn, The Sparkly Stone by Maeve O'Neill,
A Walk Down the Lane by Laura Wilson, Isolation by Mark Beeson)
The
Calling - written by Jess Avis
Sisters
- written by Connie Smith
The
Kitty Jay Project - film by Daniel Rayner, Joffy Hall, and Abigail
Kingsley-Garner
- Grave
Intimations - 2004 (film directed by Daniel Rayner,
choreography mentor Rosalyn Maynard)
- Roots
- 2005
(An ecological play devised by 13 young people)
- Loricum
- 2006
(A community play written by nine young people in collaboration
with Mark Beeson)
- The Logan Rock- 2006
(An evening of drama, dance and video performances, presenting
work from the Local Network Fund Workshops)
(A
production linking
Dartmoor with Malawi,
through music, poetry
and dance)
- Lost Roots
- 2007 (A Wild Nights Young Company Film)
Musical Performances
- Forest Fantasy - 1990
(Created by Gillian Webster)
- Upbeat - 2002 (Created
and supervised by Gillian Webster, created by Jess Avis, Angela
Francis, Nell Hubbard, Clare Lash Williams, Jasmine Leonard, Alice
Wimberley, Martha Cunningham-Johnson, Jessica Hingston, Heather
Holcroft Pinn, Jaye Noble, Amy Stephens, Neneh Whiting, Elaine
Wilson, Laura Wilson, Harry Avis and Saul Jenner)
- Limen - 2003 (Created
by Gillian Webster, Lucy Railton, Tessa Peach and Clare Lash Williams)
Audio Plays
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Some things people have said about MED Theatre
THE SALMON (1990):
'.Celebrates, but warns, in lyrical rhyming couplets.a large-scale,
wide-ranging play enhanced by some melodic music by Phil Oliver'
The Guardian
THE BEES (1992):
'[The Bees] was a piece of great craftsmanship; highly relevant,
highly topical, very amusing, philosophical, entertaining and
provocative..this was a very successful production involving much,
very much talent and skill, all local, which MED should be well
pleased with.'
South West Arts' assessor
THE DRAGON AND THE MERMAID (1994):
'Mark Beeson is an unconventional and highly original playwright.
His company is unique: and far more remarkable than the Colway
Theatre Trust ever was. This is a community play which occurs
regularly, giving the actors a chance to improve, to learn and
to explore issues in performance.It takes the performance to remind
me of what an extraordinary venture this is. Here we have a play
in verse, performed by an amateur cast of 45 or so. It is a socio-political
play of Shakespearean scope, but recognizing, as Shakespeare rarely
did, that the life of a community includes the lives of its children.The
play as text is monumental. It marks a point of transition in
regional history when stannary towns had to learn the difference
between independence and interdependence - and it shows the implications
of that in a multi-layered and brilliantly unfolded story,'
Peter Thompson, Professor of Drama at Exeter University
MONKEY ROCK (1995):
'It was a lovely, life-giving occasion which, one has to say,
is increasingly rare in a theatre where so much time is spent
on fear and worry.'
David Farnsworth, South West Arts and Theatre Consortium Literary
Manager
THE UNKNOWN (1996);
'What an undertaking - to deal with such an immense number of
characters and complicated theme (like Hardy embarking on The
Dynasts) - but so lightly handled, with the dialogue asking to
be spoken and keeping the heartbeat of the verse.'
Christopher Fry, author of The Lady's Not for Burning.
MARK BEESON
'Mark Beeson is a widely respected poet, playwright, scholar,
editor and indefatigable community theatre animateur. He is deeply
committed to the process of enabling local people of all ages
to find a distinctive voice and cultural identity through their
participation in theatre events and workshops. Mark's contribution
to this process takes many forms: as writer, as researcher, as
historian, as director. By using community theatre as his artistic
focus, he not only gives back the fruits of his own creative work,
he also enable others, and particularly young people, to make
their own contribution to a unique theatrical voice for Devon.
The productions are a joy to attend, not only for the performances
on stage, but also for the delight and pride created in the audience
as they witness theatre that is truly theirs.'
Donna-Lee Iffla, Former Head of Arts at the Exeter and Devon
Arts Centre
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