Smuggler’s Gold Jurassic Coast Heritage Touring Project
25 July to 26 July 2011
FREE Theatre Production Presented by the Common Players, taking place in the walled garden at Escot Park. Garden admission prices do apply.
Monday 25th July 2011
The performance will commence at 3.30pm
Tuesday 26th July
There will be two performances. 11.30am and 3.30pm
A special addition to the Tuesday performance is that Escot will have a Hog Roast in the walled garden! Serving from 12.00pm. There will be a charge of £4.50 per serving, which will include hog in a bap with apple sauce and stuffing!
Smuggler's Gold! is a great holiday treat, full of live traditional music and energetic, multi-role storytelling!
It tells the fictional story of Bill Widger, an Axmouth fisherman whose house on an East Devon cliff-top is falling into the sea because of coastal erosion.
In a style similar to Dickens' A Christmas Carol, night-time visitors take Bill through time to explore the beautiful ancient landscape of the East Devon area, including stories of the historic fishing fleets of Seaton and Axmouth, the Great Landslip of 1839 and the smugglers whose gold is hidden somewhere in his garden.
But, the cliff could collapse at any minute.
Will Bill find the smugglers' gold hidden in his garden before it is too late.......?
Apart from enjoying a show, which promises a lively mixture of music and drama, each member of the audience will be given a Smuggler's Gold passport! This will contain details of a competition with prizes and will outline a treasure trail to the museums of East Devon where answers to the questions in the passport will be found.
The Common Players is a community arts organisation with a 20-year history of work in the South West, producing heritage-based, environmental, site-specific and participatory theatre projects for rural communities. We have wide experience of presenting accessible theatre that articulates history and landscape stories specific to a local area.
For more information regarding this production and the Common Players, please contact Gill Sergeant on 01822 612449 or visit their website www.common-players.org.uk
Smuggler's Gold! is a piece of environmental theatre written by Creative Associate Jon Croose, based on research in collaboration with East Devon Countryside Service, the Geological Society, Devon Libraries, Devon Museums, Devon and Dorset Wildlife Trusts, the Undercliffs National Nature Reserve, the National Trust, Natural England, Lyme Regis Museum, Seaton Museum and Dorset County Archaeology, and grass-roots contributions by local people including fishermen, historians, geologists and anthropologists.
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- A day full of beauty, fun, interest and variety.
Peter from Plymouth