December 14th marks the centenary of the first votes for some women, and it’s the last chance to see ‘The Cause’, Dreadnought South West’s play inspired by an imagined meeting between two great leaders of the women’s suffrage campaign – Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett. The play has had a fantastic response from audiences during its tour of the South … Read More
2018 Autumn Tour for The Cause
Autumn Tour schedule for Dreadnought South West’s The Cause For a review of the show click here South Devon College 19th September, 1.30pm (schools) & 7.30pm (BSL Interpreted) shop.southdevon.ac.uk Tacchi Morris Arts Centre 25th September, 7.30pm (BSL Interpreted) www.tacchi-morris.com / 01823 414141 Teignmouth Pavilions 26th September, 2.30pm & 7.30pm pavilionsteignouth.org.uk Community Arts Theatre, Tiverton 28th September, 7.30pm tivertontheatre.com / 07443 502523 Dartington Live 12th … Read More
Theatre, but not as we know it
At the 2017 Edinburgh festival we saw Middle Child’s All We Ever Wanted was Everything late one night at Summerhall, in a circular tent and it was packed. Gig theatre, (a mash up of theatre [new writing] and an [original] music gig) as it is termed has brought new young audiences into the theatre and you can see why, there’s … Read More
Next lot of tour dates for The Cause
Hot weather is coming, or more accurately, has arrived but before the summer break Dreadnought SW‘s The Cause will be heading out for four more dates before we can hit the beach. Really looking forward to visiting new theatres in places I love, particularly looking forward to re-visiting the Lyric which is beyond charming and reminds me of the film … Read More
Vera’s ‘popping up’ in the Plymouth Fringe
Coffee With Vera May 29 @ 6:30pm – 7:30pm & May 30th @ 2pm- 3pm Ruth Mitchell Venue: Plymouth Synagogue Running time: 45-60 minutes Recommended age: 12+ Coffee with Vera is a performance inspired by 1960s coffee mornings created by gathering stories from the oldest Ashkenazi Synagogue in continuous use in the English-speaking world; the Plymouth synagogue. The character … Read More
Spring Tour dates for The Cause
In just over two weeks we open The Cause in Bodmin and will continue to tour the south west of England throughout the spring. Here are the first set of dates. For the full tour schedule with links to the venues box offices etc. go to http://dreadnoughtsouthwest.org.uk/the-cause-tour-schedule/ 25th & 26th April Callywith College Bodmin @ 7.30pm [2.30pm matinee on the 26th] … Read More
Spring news
After two years of developing a script with Dreadnought South West we will be taking it on tour, from April we will be travelling around the south west of England then, after a summer break, we will continue further afield. All tour dates will be posted here when they are confirmed. A Conversation between a pacifist and a militant. How … Read More
List of this weeks Hidden Stories:Hidden Places audio trails
I’ve been working with my ripple colleague Derek Frood to make audio trails for some Heritage open days, the national event is this coming weekend. It is also the first week of the Jewish Heritage Days 2017 and here are three events where our cemetery audio trails can be heard. Thursday 7 September Plymouth Cemetery Audio Trail. 2pm. Listen to … Read More
#ripple’s Hidden Stories: Hidden Places @PolyFalmouth
On Sunday September 10th I will be giving a presentation with my ripple colleague Derek Frood about our Hidden Stories: Hidden Places project. This grew out of our Plymouth Cemetery Audio trail, which took place in a hidden Jewish cemetery on Plymouth Hoe in 2016. After the unexpected success of the trail within the Plymouth Art Weekender we continued the … Read More
Let Me Look At you Edinburgh [preview]
I’ve been working with a good friend and amazing performer Mark Pinkosh, it’s been interesting partly because he lives in Los Angeles for most of the year. So far we have had three weeks face to face split up over 2017 and months of distance dramaturgy in-between without seeing one another. This, in hindsight, has been a rather good way … Read More