Overview

Thornbury Community Play

- a play for 2K -

Back in 1988, Thornbury put on a Community Play - called "A Place Called Mars." Although this was a successful venture, this was not entirely a production created from within the Town. A professional writer, Nick Darke, was commissioned to write the play and the project was under the overall control of the Colway Theatre Trust.

Thornbury is fortunate indeed in the broad range of talents it has living within the town and this time full rein will be given to the residents.

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The project for a Community Play as part of the Town's Millennium Celebrations is already underway as this is being written. It has to be so as there is a great deal of work to be done.

The Director for the play is Barbie Davies.

Barbie is currently Head of Drama at Marlwood School in Alveston having lived in Thornbury for 23 years.

She has directed a large number of every type of event with casts and crew of 350 or more. No stranger to budgeting, she has coped with productions both well financed and conversely delivered – through frequent practice – on a shoestring.

The broad concept of the piece is two sets of play, comprising 6 or 7 in total each presented on sites identified as having historical significance to the town of Thornbury. In this sense, the term historical can cover both the recent past recovered from the precious memories of people whose families have lived in the town for very many years to events recorded only on precious documents held in our National or local archives.

Last updated : 23 February, 1999