and dancer and really enjoyed it, but it was hard work. We only had a few (very long) rehearsals and there were a lot of performances. The best part was dressing up as a bunny!” In Aladdin Terri-Kate has a few costume changes, and is especially pleased with the final one where she appears in a wedding dress: “I have to wear a black wig throughout - very different to my own curly blonde hair - I look so different a few friends haven’t clocked that it’s me in the posters.” Dartmouth Players celebrate their 90th birthday this
I could perhaps use my qualifications to become a translator.” For her gap year Terri-Kate is considering a stint at Disneyland Paris. She had a brief performance taster back in October when she was chosen to join a cast there singing ‘Be My Guest’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and enjoyed it so much she hopes to return: “I couldn’t be a princess as you have to be five foot four and I’m not that tall, but I could be Tinkerbell or Alice. It wouldn’t bother me as I love Alice in Wonderland.” Terri-Kate says everyone at Dartmouth Players has
been very welcoming: “The children in the cast call me ‘Princess’ which I quite like! They asked me my real name once and when I told them they looked pretty unimpressed and carried on calling me Princess!” It takes her and mum, Alison, 40 minutes to travel over for rehearsals twice a week, but they believe it’s well worth it to be able to join such a popular group. Alison enjoyed it when the daylight hours were longer and she could wander around Dartmouth whilst she waited, but during the dark evenings the dedicated mum spends the two-hour rehearsal time in her car reading a book! Terri-Kate says it doesn’t take her long to pick up her lines: “I enjoy going off course a little and improvising. When we first started everyone stuck pretty rigidly to their scripts but it got more interesting
“I enjoy going off course a little and
improvising.”
when we had to put them down and get into charac- ter. In one scene I’m very happy about something and when we were rehearsing the other evening I grabbed my handmaid and gave her a big hug; it wasn’t in the script and she looked quite shocked!” Terri-Kate has got used to alternative ways of looking at scripts through her time at Stagecoach Performing Arts in Torquay. It’s a nationwide company, which puts on plays and musicals and regularly attracts talent scouts to its shows. Aladdin is the second pantomime Terri-Kate has been in, her first was Cinderella at the Princess Theatre, Torquay featuring an all-star cast with actors from Em- merdale and Last of the Summer Wine. “I was a singer
year making them the longest established communi- ty drama group in the area. They have 60 members, young and old, who give their time free of charge. The company aims for professional standards in everything they do, from serious Shakespeare to comedy and musicals. Chairman Bill Hunt is proud of the variety of talent in his cast: “We take young people with no expe- rience and mould them into performers, which hope- fully helps give them more confidence in other parts of their lives. There are no subscription fees so people can get involved regardless of their circumstances. We open the final pantomime dress rehearsal to people on low incomes referred by social services. That special show is organised by the Dartmouth Community Chest and it means people who might not be able to afford it get to see a pantomime at Christmas.”
Aladdin is on at the Flavel between the 28th and the 31st December. For tickets go to
theflavel.org.uk
At the Flavel Arts Centre 28th to
31st December 2018 at 14:30. Tickets via
www.dartmouthplayers.org.uk
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