Here We Are Again
As a part of its World War One arts programme, Tale Valley Community Theatre will be mounting a WW1 poetry and songs evening in Payhembury Hall on Saturday 18th July. The poems will be read by individuals and will contain well known favourites such as Albert and the Lion and more serious verse such as Dulce et Decorum est.
There will be a musical hall atmosphere with the audience singing well known songs of the period such as Pack up Your Troubles, My Old Man said Follow the Van and Knees up Mother Brown. This evening is …
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WW1 Poetry and Songs Evening
They Dream of Home – Latest
They Dream of Home - to be held on 19th and 20th September
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Tale Valley Community Theatre’s WW1 commemoration play ‘They Dream of Home’ did not happen in September 2014. It will now be performed on September 19th and 20th this year, with the bulk of the rehearsals taking place in July.
‘They Dream of Home’, written and directed by John Somers, features,
with the permission of relatives, two real people whose names appear on the Payhembury War Memorial. It will be a promenade performance, with scenes happening …
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TVCT – Annual General Meeting 2014
Please click the link to view or save this document Minutes of AGM 2014 …
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Annual General Meeting – Minutes 2013
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Annual General Meeting – Agenda 2014
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“They Dream of Home”
On Friday 13th June at 7.30pm in Payhembury Hall, there will be a first reading of ‘They Dream of Home’, a new play by John Somers to commemorate the outbreak of WW1. We will read the script and discuss how this ‘processional production’ will take place in early September in various locations in Payhembury village. Unless the weather is too bad, we will be able to walk around Payhembury to look at and discuss the locations where the performance will happen. Males in the 15 to 40 age bracket are especially needed.
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People of Payhembury
To the people of Payhembury
(especially those living around the Green)
In September Tale Valley Community Theatre will perform ‘They Dream of Home’, a play written by me about the Village’s and Parish’s involvement in WW1. Some of you will remember the production, Parson Terry’s Dinner, which I created in 2000 which celebrated the turn of the Millennium. It was performed at various sites in the Village and I would like to achieve a similar thing with ‘They Dream of Home’. I would like, therefore, as with Parson Terry, to be able to close …
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TVCT AGM
Annual General Meeting
Tale Valley Community Theatre will be holding an AGM
7.45 in the dining area of the Six Bells, Payhembury
Monday16th September 2013.
(Due to no meals served on a Monday evening the area is available)
It is not anticipated that the AGM will take long. Afterwards there will be a review of previous work done with extracts from DVDs. In addition John Somers will explain the new intergenerational project due to take place from 26th to 29th November 2013.
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TVCT – Latest Project
New Community Theatre Project: The Music of Time
Tale Valley Community Theatre’s new intergenerational project is well under way. Twelve writers ranging in ages from eleven to seventy four have created the fourteen scenes which will form the content of The Music of Time to be performed in November. This will be the fourteenth original production for the company since Parson Terry’s Dinner in 2000 and, unusually for TVCT which has used a range of performance sites, it will be performed in Payhembury Hall. Nick Pruce from Talaton has written the …
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Support the role of drama in our Schools
DO YOU VALUE THE ROLE OF
THE ARTS & DRAMA IN OUR LIVES?
Many of you are involved in drama and theatre in a range of contexts, either professionally or in your community as a voluntary activity. Those who have children at school may know that the Government has announced several initiatives to change the school curriculum, most of which involve a diminution of the Arts and perhaps complete removal of Drama. As someone who discovered Drama as a student and who has been working in it ever since (54 years) I am saddened and annoyed that this …
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