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WELCOME TO
INN THEATRE
PATRON MICHAEL CORBIDGE (RSC)
DARTMOUTH SHAKESPEARE WEEK 2019
23RD - 27TH JULY - TICKETS AVAILABLE SOON!
We are The Inn Theatre Company, and here you can find out all you need to know about us, Dartmouth Shakespeare Week (which we started producing in 2003) and all our other productions. A potted history of the company is on this and other pages. You can see pictures of all our previous productions, some of the people involved in getting the show(s) on the road and news of up and coming productions. You can get in touch with us about pretty much anything and we'll get back to you as quickly as possible. Please enjoy everything and, maybe, you'll become inspired to get up and be part of something amazing.
YOU CAN GET IN TOUCH ABOUT PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING BY SENDING US AN EMAIL TO:
theinntheatrecompany@gmail.com
and we'll get back to you!
SIX YEARS WITH THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
'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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CELEBRATING SHAKESPEARE & MODERN THEATRE, TOGETHER!
For the past fifteen years The Inn Theatre Company have presented Dartmouth Sakespeare Week in the open-air at Dartmouth Castle, a stunning, natural location for producing some of the finest plays ever written in the English language.
In 2013, we revisited the darker side of the canon, and presented what many consider to be Shakespeare's greatest play and most moving tragedy - King Lear.
'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.'
From Brian Mcdermid - by email
IT'S WHAT WE DO
We have, over the years, presented some of Shakespeare's greatest plays...and there are still some of them left that we haven't done. However, because we believe in entetainment (much as Will did), we have also revisited some those productions recently.
That being said, although it is about pleasing your audience, it's also about pleasing the actors and those involved in the production; so we try to guage everyone's opinion as to what we should do next, in respect of Dartmouth Shakespeare Week.
Here's a look at what we have presented up at the Castle thus far.
Our first produciton in 2003:
Twelfth Night
2004:
The Taming of the Shrew
2005:
The Merchant of Venice
From the top, left to right: 2006 - Romeo and Juliet; 2007 - A Midsummer Night's Dream; 2008 - The Tempest;
2009 - Much Ado About Nothing; 2010 - Macbeth; 2011 - As You Like It
And Below:
Left: 2012 - Twelfth Night; 2013 - King Lear (please look at 'Diary of a Production' for more wonderful pictures from Lear)
Here's our fabulous 2014, Commedid dell'Arte production of 'The Taming of the Shrew', with just a few of the cast kicking the whole thing off!
In 2015 we went back to the fabulous Fifties, with
'The Merry Wives of Windsor'.
Fantastic fun and something we had not done before: modern dress.
Well, modern-ish!
The fabulous cast of the 2016 tour of 'Twelfth Night'.
Last night at Pecorama
Just a couple of shots from the 2016 Dartmouth Shakespeare Week production of 'Romeo and Juliet' directed by Jon Miles
From left to right: Kylie Storman as Juliet; Joe Tapper as Romeo; Jane Windsor-Smith as Nurse; Shirley Tonkin as Lady Capulet.
Our fifteenth anniversary production of 'Othello' was another resounding success for the company.
Here is Clare Purdy as Desdemona and Rheanne Derby as Emilia.
Alphonso Brown as Othello and James Osben as Iago
From top to bottom left to right our cast:
Charlie Wynne, Gil Garland, Shirley Tonkin, Molly Wynne, Kieron Gooding,
Jacob Seldon, Tim Cartwright, Vernon Davies, John Belli,
Holly Kibble, Benjy Hamilton, Joe Tapper,
Alphonso Brown, Clare Purdy, Rheanne Derby, James Osben.
'The whole production was of the highest quality, probably better than most found in the
West End of London at the moment'
Robert Mayes (Chelmsford)
'...the Inn Theatre Company have an amazing talent for helping us to get closer to Shakespeare
and making it accessible to
everyone.'
Review from the Dartmouth Chronicle
The Inn Theatre Company Tour - 2016
It seems we are in the process of evolving a tradition. 2014/15 saw the company tour 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. 2016 and we were back on the road again (with Theatre Hub) playing to sell-out audiences, all over south Devon, with 'Twelfth Night'.
And we are already planning the 2017 tour...which will be our rendering of The Tempest - with a female Prospera!
Below are some pictures from the last perfromance in the Twelfth Night tour, at Pecorama in Beer.
From left to right: Joe Tapper as Feste; Sally Feetenby as Olivia;
James Osben as Malvolio.
L to R: Sally Feetenby as Olivia; Clare Purdy as Viola/Cesario;
Jane Windsor-Smith as Maria.
L to R: Max Brandt as Sir Toby Belch;
Chris Harknett as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
L to R : Ben Hamilton as Antonio; Jacob Seldon as Sebastian.
L to R: Julian Head as Officer (Jools also played Sea Captain and Priest);
Ben Hamilton as Antonio
L to R: Clare Purdy as Viola/Cesario; Rich Turley as Orsino
Raising a celebratory glass or two at the end of a fantastically sucessful and exciting couple of weeks - well deserved too!
'The higlight of the theatrical calendar...is Dartmouth Shakespeare Week, with some brilliant performances at Dartmouth Castle.'
Herald Express
'Stunning backdrop and packed audiences'
BBC Television - Spotlight
'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.'
Hector Bowess (Oxfordshire)
