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WE DESPERATELY NEED YOUR HELP TO Keep Dartmouth Shakespeare Week Alive.
We are the Inn Theatre Company and, for last fifteen years, we have produced Dartmouth Shakespeare Week, an open-air celebration of The Bard, performed at Dartmouth Castle. Using the cream of local acting and back-stage talent, we have striven to bring Shakespeare to a wider audience, making the plays accessible for all.
“The highlight of our stay was, undoubtedly, our evening at Dartmouth Castle watching ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. It was a truly remarkable piece of theatre - my wife and I were overawed.”
Anchoring the company within the local community has been, and still is, our primary aim and to that end, every year, we donate upwards of £1500 to local charities and causes (and during our time at Dartmouth Castle we have donated over £20,000); these include Dartmouth Caring, The Dave Sharp Foundation, Rowcroft Hospice, local sports clubs and several local young people have been the recipients of a £500 bursary to allow them to continue and actively pursue a career in the performing arts.
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...the Inn Theatre Company have an amazing talent for helping us to get closer to Shakespeare and making it accessible to everyone.”
since 2011, we have been affiliated to the Royal shakespeare Company (via their Open stages initiative)
and we are pleased and proud to be able to say that we are, once again in 2017, part of the RsC. Our Patron, Michael Corbidge, is the Senior Voice and Text Coach with the RSC and his and their help has been invaluable in helping us achieve the high professional standard that our audiences have come to expect.
‘The whole production was of the highest quality, probably better than most found in the West End of London at the moment’
We are, as a company, entirely self-funded, receiving
no grants or aid from any outside agency, be that local or national. We raise all our funds for the year over year functioning of the company through advertising sales in our souvenir programmes and through ticket sales and the support of a few, very loyal people who are our friends. Each show at the castle, which is on for a week, costs in excess of fourteen thousand pounds. Add to that our yearly expenses (insurance, public liability, storage, web-site etc) and you can see that, although our actors, back-stage and front-of-house helpers, technicians and committee members are unpaid, our over-heads are quite phenomenal for a non-professional, local company.
“On holiday in the west country, saw the advert in Dartmouth Tourist magazine so decided to bring the family to see King Lear;15 year old, three early twenties and a couple of mature groundlings. What an unexpected treat and on a par with a recent visit to the Globe. The interpretation, acting, setting, clothing were all excellent. Hard to believe that the majority of actors were not professional. The performances of King Lear, Cordelia/fool, Edgar, Edmund, and Duke of Kent were all outstanding.”
In an effort to raise more funds we have, in the past
three years, started touring productions to other venues in Devon: Torre Abbey, Exmouth Festival, Avon Mill and Pecorama. These tours have been in collaboration with a local, professional company (Theatre Hub) and are an attempt to not only raise our profile and the public’s awareness of the work we do, but to raise more, much needed, funding. In 2017 we are touring The Tempest and the Dartmouth Shakespeare Week production is Othello.
‘I thought your actors had a terrific energy and created characters that were wonderfully distinct in both voice and physicality’ Helen Leblique - Theatre Director RSC
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