Welcome to

The Wessex Actors Company's

home page

The Company served five counties of the South-West for 13 years on negligible finance, taking some 25 own productions and 5 presented one-person shows to 179 venues, mostly on multiple visits. A unique focus on talent and writing from the South-West generated the company’s policy over that period. This archive site will be built on to provide a record of the company’s achievements as time allows.

1993-2006

You have the following options:

v    The Company's Lottery-funded assets are for sale: see listing and prices

 

v     View a screen version of "Running Time: 13 Years" – a publication celebrating 13 years of operation and detailing essential facts and figures about the Company’s operation.

 

If you wish to comment, or find out more, please contact us.

Talk to us by e-mail: mailto: wessexactors@perceptivecreation.co.uk - or by phone: (+44) (0)1278 733100.

Or write: The Counting House, Dodington, Bridgwater, Somserset TA5 1LE

 

v      Find out about The Wessex Actors Company's history and aims

v      Our focus has always been on the creative talent of the South-West - so who are the writers whose work we have produced?

v      Search the list of venues played by the Company

v      Discover the sources of funding, who helped the Company (beyond earnings from activities)

 

Information on some past productions:

v      The Wessex Actors Company has twice produced Hardy's own dramatization of "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" (1993 and 2001) - the only company to have done so since Hardy’s own production.

v      Responses to our production of Michael Barry’s “Dead Woman’s Ditch” – based on the true story of John Walford, hanged for the murder of his wife in 1789.

v      Responses to our riotous production of “Tom Jones”

v      Info on: "Do Reindeer Dream of Santa Claus?"

v      Find out about our last own production: "The Mayor of Casterbridge"   

v      Other productions are identified in "Running Time: 13 Years"

 

v      The Community Chest was the Company's unique programme of small-scale, low-cost productions for small venues:

Ø      The portfolio of productions

Ø      The Community Chest Press release

Bring down the curtain and go home.