First of the 2014 Batch!

...AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

First, a very large thank you to everyone, wherever you may be, for reading the blog. Hope it helps...certainly helps us!

Just about to start the next batch of rehearsals - more catch-up's really - for A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bike Shed Theatre in Exeter (get your tickets soon, cos word on the street is that they are moving with a wonderfully shocking rapidity!) and, as if that wasn't enough, we have the auditions for this year's Dartmouth Shakespeare Week production, The Taming of the Shrew, happening on 26th of the month.
Details for that, if you're interested, are on the Friends of the Inn Theatre Company Facebook page...look in the files section! The more the merrier.
AND if that wasn't enough, we've just launched the Inn Theatre Company Bursary for Young People!

As you're probably aware, we donate to local charities and causes every year from any surplus we make from Dartmouth Shakespeare Week (close £15,000 thus far) and this year - well, in 2013 anyway! - it was no different. However, we decided that the time was right to try and support not only the local charities but to also give a helping hand to the wealth of talented youngsters that live in the South Hams.
There are plenty of details on the website  and 2013's recipient (the first) will be announced in the press very shortly.
The bursary will be awarded to a different young person every year and nominations for 2014 are now open! 
The nominations must come from a parent, carer or guardian and the youngster nominated must be between the ages of 10 and 17, living in the South Hams.

I've got...we've all got...a really good feeling about 2014, as far as the Company is concerned: building on the successes of last year and moving on to even better things. This year's DSW, obviously, the promenade performance of The Dream coming up in May and plans to mark the hundredth anniversary of the start of the First World War in a very special fashion. More news on that as it happens.
So thanks again for reading and please, drop us a line or comment sometime; makes us feel we're not just chatting to the ether!