WCT's annual Quiz Night on Wednesday 1st November was attended by around 60 people and raised £350 for our funds which will be spent on our next project at BytheWay...
Voices in Holt Forest • 2004
Listen HERE to young actors perform in Holt Forest (By Hook or By Crook, 2004), and local people talk about their forest, people being lost there, and stories about local characters, like...
“By The Way” Production Dates Confirmed
The next WCT production will be on these dates: Wednesday 18th October 2017 Thursday 19th October 2017 Friday 20th October 2017 Saturday 21st October 2017 Sunday 22nd October 2017 It’s...
Treasure Trail on July 14th
WCT's fun Treasure Trail is back for a third year! This is a fund-raising event so do come along and bring your friends. Just pick up the trail between...
Sound Workshop on Sunday April 2
It was a lovely spring evening on Sunday as we explored BytheWay with Adrian and Tony. We created through sounds the activities of drovers and farmers who used to herd...
By The Way Project – progress, future plans and dates
At the first workshop on February 22nd we began to explore the possibilities for performance in the area of Leigh Common, particularly BytheWay Field with its bog and wood. Using...
NEW PHOTOS and DOCUMENTARY!
A short documentary of What They Left Behind by film maker Rob Hart featuring interviews with cast and crew and background on the research and process involved. Photos of What...
First World War Conference
‘Interpretation, Commemoration and Memory of the First World War by the Community’ WCT gave a short presentation about ‘What The Left Behind’ at this conference in August. Speakers explored the role...
FUNDRAISING: Skittles Evening on 10 February 2017
We raised over £260 at the Skittles Evening on 10th February and a fun time was had by all. Thanks to all who came along and supported us and...
Autumn Workshops “The Beggars’ Wedding”
In our Autumn workshops we have been working on a traditional Dorset tale “The Beggars’ Wedding” using different media (drama, singing & music and sound recording) to explore the story’s...
What They Left Behind Reunion on Thursday 29 September
Many cast and crew members attended the reunion meeting for everyone involved in What They Left Behind on 29th September at the Priest’s House Museum. We all enjoyed watching a film...
What They Left Behind • ‘powerful’ and ‘moving’
In May, almost 400 people attended six performances of 'What They Left Behind'. Each evening the audience was divided into three groups and moved simultaneously to scenes set in four...
Two Reviews and Rehearsal Video
Read two reviews: Mark Blackham at The Fine Times Recorder & John Newth at Scene One Watch a video of What They Left Behind in rehearsal on Sunday May 16th with an outline of...
Musicians and Singers bring Diaries to life
A wide ranging group of musiciansand singers came together to perform in WCT recent production of ‘What They Left Behind’ to bring to life the words of Olive Harcourt, and other...
Sound Installation • ‘Anthem for Old Road’
[playlist ids="12550"] Listen to a sound installation entitled ‘Anthem for Old Road’ which was placed in a garden in Old Road, Wimborne, linked to the themes of the forthcoming production ‘What They...
The Face of Harry
The Face of Harry A photograph onthe flier for WCT’s recent production ‘What They Left Behind’ is of Harry Crowther, a WW1 survivor and the grandfather of one of the actors,...
Dada Garden
Over one hundred people attended the successful Dada Garden event on Sunday, April 24, 1.30 – 6 pm Celebrating a centenary of Dada in a garden setting, with performances of...
In Local Shops Now – Things They Left Behind
Things They Left Behind is a number of Art Works inspired by the play’s themes. Now installed in Keatings, the butchers, John the Fish, Black Pug Books and Spill The Beans:...
AUB Students’ Work Placement with WCT
A group of third year students from the AUB BA Costume and Performance Design course has again joined the WCT team as part of their professional practice, to design and make costumes,...
‘What They Left Behind’ • Tickets on Sale
May 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28 starting at 8 pm on the Minster Green May 20: BSL Interpreted Performance Book early to avoid disappointment. Audience numbers...
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Successful Fundraising
Funding to support the development of WCT's forthcoming production, ‘What They Left Behind’ is gratefully received from a number of sources: Arts Council England, East Dorset District Council and Allenbourn School; Wimborne BID...
‘What They Left Behind’: May 2016
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‘What They Left Behind’ Creative Team
As with most previous productions, WCT has brought together a team of professional artists to work in partnership with. Our focus for developing 'What They Left Behind', is the wealth of research material...
WCT awarded ACE grant for WW1 production
Wimborne Community Theatre has been awarded an Arts Council England grant to support the development of a new production about the First World War in Wimborne, to take place in early...
Theatre Workshops for 2016 WW1 Production
Workshops and rehearsals will take place weekly from January 14th 2016, on Thursday evenings, from 8-10 pm in Church House, Wimborne. WORKSHOP / REHEARSAL DATES: Thursday January 14, 21 &...
Hiroshima Dispersed
Twelve members took part in a public reading of ‘The Grandchildren of Hiroshima’ by Misaki Setyoyama on the Minster Green, Wimborne, on August 6. This is what happened: First, twelve...
Stories from the First World War
Members of WCT visited Ypres, Belgium, in May 2015. At the First World War museum In Flanders Field in Ypres, there are many stories of extraordinary and ordinary people who...
Ken and Kathryn
Two people with close associations with WCT – Kenlis Horitz and Kathryn Richmond - died suddenly in April, with their funerals, by coincidence, taking place on the same afternoon. Kathryn...
Otter – 2001: How Memories Became Songs
As part of WCT’s involvement in Common Ground’s Confluence project, we talked to residents of Streets Meadow Care Home, about their memories of seeing otters along the River Stour when they...
Hiroshima Dispersed
WCT has been invited by London Bubble to participate in Hiroshima Dispersed, by joining groups from Palestine, the Philippines, India (tbc), Belgium and South Africa, on August 6, in the reading...
WCT Fundraising Campaign
Come to WCT’s next fundraising Skittles Evening on Friday, February 26, 2016, 7.30 pm at Coach and Horses, Wimborne. Anyone is welcome to come along to WCT’s fundraising events. Following the successful Quiz...
First World War Project – Autumn Drama Workshops at the Priest’s House Museum
Autumn workshops will take place on Wednesday September 23rd and Wednesday October 14th at the Priest’s House Museum, Wimborne from 7.30 – 9.30 pm, both workshops led by Tony Horitz. At the workshop on 28th July...
The Smell of War
WCT members visited The Smell of War exhibition in the Castle de Lovie which included work by international artists reflecting on the impact of the first gas attacks in World War 1, through...
Visit to Poperinge, Belgium
In May, WCT Members attended a spectacular outdoor performance of Furious Folly, in Poperinge, Belgium. In Furious Folly, Mark Anderson leads a team of artists that, in the spirit of...
Furious Folly
The British producer, Simon Chatterton, creates the outdoor event “Furious Folly” in co-operation with Dark Spark, in the historic setting of De Lovie. The sound and light event aims to...
Inside our Archive – Feature for March
The Great Rinsing • 2011 'The Great Rinsing' took place in a Victorian Pump House, situated on the banks of the Stour, and included the short film ‘Angler’ by Dan...
Theatre Workshops
Please note that the workshop planned for Wednesday 29 April has been cancelled. Further Workshops, led by Tony Horitz, to explore WCT’s research material on the First World War in Wimborne. Open to anyone interested...
Inside Our Archive – Feature for February
A Tale of Hours • 1993 Part of the development of ‘A Tale of Hours’ was captured by the BBC for the children’s programme, Bitsa. Bitsa presenters, Simon Pascoe and Caitlin Easterby,...
Sound Workshop – Experimenting and Recording Voice
Listen to a collage of devised sounds created at a recent workshop led by Sound Artist, Adrian Newton. We improvised sounds and words selected from research materials gathered by WCT about WW1...
Skittles Fundraising Evening
Members of Wimborne Community Theatre raised funds for WCT’s next project at a fun skittles evening last week.
Finding out more about local families in 1914-1918
Members of WCT continue to follow up research about families living in Wimborne during the First World War. Recently, we met Len Pearce, who talked about his research for the...
WCT records now part of Dorset History Centre Archive
WCT’s recently deposited records have now been formally archived at Dorset History Centre. They have been given reference D-2647, Wimborne Community Theatre. Papers and photographs telling the story of each of...
Members take part in ‘The Bell’
Several WCT members took part as volunteer performers in a production of 'The Bell’ in Blandford town square on Thursday, September 18th, at 8 pm. See here to see a performance...
EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP – using texts to create sounds and record voice
A fun and experimental workshop on January 15th, led by sound artist, Adrian Newton, involved improvisation and recording of texts, based on WW1 research carried out by the group. Read and...
‘Letters to the Living, Songs to the Dead’
The rain held off on Saturday, July 19, for an experimental sharing of ‘Letters to the Dead, Songs to the Living’, a work in progress by Wimborne Community Theatre group...
The History of Beaucroft House – Red Cross Hospital in the First World War
The house appears to have been situated at the junction with Beaucroft Road and Beaucroft Lane. The address is listed as 29 Beaucroft Lane. There is a large house down...
Wimborne Infant School Log for World War One Years 1914 – 1918
Interesting reading but remarkable how school life continued as usual during the Great War. The Log contains very few personal details or reference to the war, although there are two notes...
Dorset Soldier’s Attempted Suicide: Second Attempt on his Life
I came across this article in a local newspaper of the time on a visit to Dorset History Centre. Apart from him being almost a local man (Broadstone), I thought...
Theatre project ends with performance in Forest Garden
We completed a series of sessions led by Claire Raftery and Damian Wright, of Brighton based theatre company, Periplum, exploring ways of animating outdoor space, using narrative from researched material about the...
Exploring place and story
Claire Raftery and Damian Wright, of Periplum, have led three sessions exploring the indoor spaces of Church House, locations around the Minster and the Priest’s House Musem garden, bringing to life...
New Website Launched!
Wimborne Community Theatre’s new archival website was launched at Priest’s House Museum, on March 14th, 2014. Annette Brooke, MP, said 'My congratulations go to Wimborne Community Theatre for 25 years...
School Drama Clubs perform their work
Performances with students from two Colehill Schools – St Michael’s and Beaucroft, took place at St Michael’s School Arena Theatre on Wednesday, July 16 at 2pm. Jeff Hart, from Dorset Community Foundation,...
Archiving WCT
The website is a repository for images and stories relating to nearly twenty productions involving hundreds of young people and adults in many unusual East Dorset sites, from Kingston Lacy...
Stories from Priest’s House Museum
Tony, Gill and I have spent several afternoons at the Priest's House Museum looking through the archives of the World War One period. Some of the stories we’ve uncovered include...
The Old Road Story
Some fascinating stories have been uncovered at the Priest's House Museum about what Wimborne was like during the First World War. The Wimborne Minster Parish Magazines of the time have been...
Visit to Blandford Royal Signals Museum
In the autumn of last year some of us met the curator of the Royal Signals Museum at Blandford Camp to talk about the Reminiscences project and see the museum...
New theatre project with Periplum
Artistic Directors, Claire Raftery and Damian Wright, have led two sessions exploring the indoor spaces in Church House, and various locations around the Minster, and bringing to life some of...
Animations shown at Exeter Festival
Two short films, made by students from St Michael’s School, Colehill and Allenbourn Middle School, Wimborne, and based on episodes from past WCT productions, were selected for screening in the Young...
Information about our new Theatre Project
Wimborne Community Theatre has been awarded £5000 from the BBC’s Community Theatre scheme, to work with Periplum, a theatre company producing ground-breaking site-responsive and outdoor performance. Artistic Directors, Claire Raftery...
Meeting with the Western Front Association
"I went to a meeting with the Western Front Association at Pimperne in December 2013. There were lots of artefacts and memorabilia to look at and very interesting people happy...
Harry Crowther’s story
Clare’s story about her Grandparents: The story that was told to us about Granny and Granddad was this: Harry was Auntie Elsie’s boyfriend at the start of World War One. Ells...
Working with Priest’s House Museum
As part of our research about the impact of the First World War on the lives of people living in Wimborne and surrounding areas, we held two ‘Gathering Family Memories...
Stories Into Drama – The Drama of Stories
From September to November, we ran a series of workshops (funded by East Dorset District Council), using improvisation, movement and role-play to turn documented stories about World War One and...
Watch two videos made by young people
As part of our project to archive Wimborne Community Theatre’s history, Gifted and Talented students at Allenbourn School, Wimborne and St Michael’s School, Colehill worked with Alastair Nisbet and Sharon...
