The Dorchester Community Plays Association Website
Welcome to the Dorchester Community Plays Association's web site. You can find here information about the Association, about
the five community plays which have been performed in Dorchester in the last quarter of a century and about community plays
in general. You can also learn about plans for the next play which it is hoped will be performed in 2012 and about the exciting
process which will lead into it.
The first Dorchester community play, 'Entertaining Strangers', was performed in 1985. Out of that, the Dorchester Community
Plays Association was born. The Association has produced four further plays one roughly every five years. The Association is
an unincorporated registered charity and membership of the Association is open to all.
You do not have to be a member to take part in a play but membership enables you to be much more closely involved with the
plans and preparation of the next play and enables you to meet others with a similar interest. Workshops and social events are arranged. These provide a good opportunity for making friends, gaining in self confidence and discovering a talent you never
know you had. Why not join today?
2012: Our Next Play!
Dorchester Community Plays Association has decided to produce another community play.
This will be the sixth and is scheduled to take place in November 2012. The play will be set in
the period from about 1890 to 1914, a time of huge change both social and technological
and a time when there were also nice costumes! We have commissioned Rupert Creed who wrote Fire from Heaven to write our next play and research has started.
As a way of involving as many people as possible we are running a research project entitled 'Dorchester Dig - Unearthing stories from Dorchester's Past'. The research project is expected to end with an exhibition which we hope will be in the County Museum. We also hope to publish a permanent record of the results of the research.
We hope that the project will provide material for the play but we but we want also to arouse interest in what was happening in Dorchester a hundred years ago. We would like people to
ask questions about the past and help find answers. In particular we want younger members
of the community to talk to older members about what their parents or grandparents may
have told them. For more details download a 'Dorchester Dig' leaflet or contact David Lang by visiting our Research page.
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June 2010
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