Year: 2017

‘Waving Goodbye’ Tuesday 5th September

PRESS RELEASE Waving Goodbye A play by Andrew Shakeshaft Presented by Tree Shadow Theatre Productions Dolphin Hotel, Bovey Tracey 5th September 2017 7:30pm Waving Goodbye; Burkha or jeggings? Twisting fast-paced black comedy. **** Remote Goat “a production which has much to offer” “Deeply moving” Views from the Gods “Funny and Moving” Pick of the Fringe Award Bedfringe 2017 Waving Goodbye is an emotionally charged black comedy which asks fundamental questions about existence and our relationships with each other. “All those people who died young; you’ve got their life, you’ve got the chances they never had and what are you doing with it?” Tree Shadow Theatre put out a call for new, contemporary scripts that didn’t fight shy of exploring big issues and what it is to be a young woman in today’s world. This two- hander comedy was the outright winner. After debuting at the Camden Fringe, Waving Goodbye has been performed in Exeter, Monmouth, Seaton, Bristol, London and the Bedfringe. Our performances in Exeter this year for the From Devon with Love Festival played to a sold-out audience and Waving Goodbye was awarded Pick of The Fringe by Bedfringe. Tree Shadow Theatre look forward to bringing Waving Goodbye back to home turf in Devon for a special one-off performance in Bovey Tracey. Directed by Anita Parry (What Would Helen Mirren Do?) Cast: Lucy Theobald and Louisa Wilde Playwright: Andrew Shakeshaft Tickets £6 Running Time 50mins Email: info@treeshadow.co.uk “A true masterpiece of theatre” Last Embrace, Broadway Baby ***** “A fascinating examination of the tension between appearance and reality” – How Well You Know Me, Somerset Gazette “I’m no theatre critic, but what struck me was how the entire audience was completely absorbed by the drama” Audience review “An inspiring play that deserves a wider audience” Audience review, Hard Like Stone

While you’re here….

At the moment we’ve just finished our production of ‘Curtain Up!’ by Peter Quilter. We performed the play at ‘The Dolphin’ however here’s some interesting news about another proposed venue in  

2017 Lone Star

LONE STAR by James Maclure Is a gritty comedy – set in the back of “Angels Bar”, Texas, late 70s – with a cast of three very colourful characters! Here is how the author describes them…… Roy (James Harper) Roy is lean, tough with beginnings of a beer gut. Uneducated, belligerent, his army service has nearly given him a sense of irony. He voted Nixon, likes John Wayne movies and thinks Raquel Welch is a great actress. Love of his life – his 1959 pink Thunderbird convertible.) Ray (Mark Godwin) Ray is his younger brother. Slope-shouldered, sloth-like, slowwww. He has no idea what irony is. Wears a John Deere hat. Probably sleeps in it. Cletis (Mark Albon) Cletis is a friend of Ray’s. A wide-eyed asshole. His life should have been terminated in high school. He married the first girl he dated that didn’t spit on him. She married him because of his fathers appliance store. He works there. Get’s lost in the stock room. Has a plastic pocket pencil holder. Sleeps with it.

2016 Allo Allo

It has been a sad week with the announcement of the of death of Gorden Kaye – the original Rene Artois. We still all sit about and have a giggle whenever we discuss last years Player’s production of Allo Allo. They must have had a ball filming the originals and Gorden will be remembered with a smile. So here are some pictures from our Allo Allo, thanks Bim. Coming soon will be news of our next production, which will be coming up in March and is currently in rehearsal. Photos courtesy of Bim Photography

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