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The South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company, Brixham

Internationally award winning, female-led, touring theatre company from Brixham, Devon, UK. Variety is beautiful! We are members of Brixham Chamber of Commerce.

Creating inclusive opportunities for local people, creative industries career building & top quality shows performed locally & streamed across the world. The South Devon Players is an ambitious collaborative film and theatre company based in Brixham, and touring the southwest. We primarily specialise in productions around classical literature and researched history. We are a group of freelance, self employed actors, and other creatives, who come together to create theatre. The company directors and admin/ fundraisers are purely voluntary roles, running the group for the passion of creating opportunities for local actors and creatives to begin or further their careers in theatre. We rehearse twice- weekly at the Chestnut Heights Community centre, 1-3 Poplar Close, Brixham TQ5 0SA

New people are always welcome regardless of previous experience. To be eligible to join us, you need to be aged 16 or over, other than that, the only restrictions are that you are reliable, prompt for rehearsals and show set-ups, and that you can work within a team, with good social team skills, and a desire to join an ambitious team of actors who want to make theatre and film their career, and create professional work at the forefront of best practice and quality. We have strict anti-bullying, anti-racism, anti-discrimination rules in place. We were founded in late 2005 and performed our first production in the summer of 2006. Since then we have gone from strength to strength, and are now growing rapidly, with international awards for our work. We are female-led, by an autistic woman of colour, and welcome actors, crews and audiences of all demographics. email [email protected]
For more information, you can see:
* Our latest shows: http://www.southdevonplayers.com/box-office.html
* Our governance, and constitutional documents: http://www.southdevonplayers.com/about-us.html
* Our next auditions: http://www.southdevonplayers.com/auditions.html

The SOUTH DEVON PLAYERS central weblinks
Our main website: www.southdevonplayers.com
Our page: https://www.facebook.com/sdevonplayers
Our facebook discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/southdevonplayers
Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/sdevonplayers

We do not permit unauthorized reproduction of our content, or for our work to be used for AI purposes or to train AI algorithms.

10/11/2026

09/11/2026

JACK THE RIPPER is coming to Exeter on November 28th!!!

What a wonderful start to our theatre tour with fabulous audiences. Among the regular and new venues on our tour, we will be coming to Exeter - Tickets available online in advance from our website (in comments) or on the door from 6.30pm on the show day.

Photos by Robbie Clymo, Graham French and DJS Images, from the performances at Brixham Theatre.

Many thanks to Torbay Council's Heritage Fund.

Created from researched theories about his identity and motives, and combining horror, steampunk & historical elements,

Our Autumn & Winter theatre production is coming to Kingskerswell Village Hall , the Muse Theatre at Lipson Co-operative Academy , Longdown Village Hall , Budleigh Salterton Public Hall Unleashed Theatre Company , and Village Hall near
Tickets available for all performances in advance via our website (see the poster, or direct link in comments) or on the door, on show day. Please message us with any enquiries.

About:
Frederick Abberline, a tormented but brilliant and kindly detective, finds himself investigating the brutal murders of prostitutes around Whitechapel in London. As fear builds and the local community starts to unravel, with the murders showing no sign of stopping, Abberline has to face horrors in his own past, as he continues the investiagtion. Through the show, we meet members of the local community, incliding several of the suspects, many of the Rippers victims - and Jack the Ripper himself...

How does the story end? Well; it ends with many questions. Who was silenced and why?

Run time: 2 hours 30 mins plus venue interval. Allow 3 hours total.

Suitability: Teens and adults

Content advisories: This story focusses on a serial killer, the investigations and his victims, based on true events. The show contains scenes of violence, mild strong language, a scene of drug use, references to prostitution, and one reference to cannibalism.

08/11/2026

What a wonderful start to our theatre tour of Jack the Ripper at Brixham Theatre with fabulous audiences. Next, on our tour, we are at Kingskerswell, on Saturday November 14th. Tickets available online in advance from our website (in comments) or on the door from 6.30pm on the show day.

Photos by Robbie Clymo and DJS Images
Many thanks to Torbay Council's Heritage Fund.

08/11/2026

JACK THE RIPPER NOW ON TOUR.
Some stunning photos from our now touring theatre production - these photos from Brixham Theatre by DJS Images.
Want to come and see the show?
It’s on through November and early December at
- see our ticket link in the comments.

With many thanks to Torbay Councils Heritage Fund

06/11/2026

Fantastic final rehearsals for Jack the Ripper with projections and lighting at Brixham Theatre

Come and see the full show- a steampunked reimagining of the stories and some of the theories about Jack the Ripper.

Did you know one of the historical key suspects, Michael Ostrog, lived in Torquay for a time?

Some and see the show on at Theatre on Nov 7th, then touring to , , , Salterton, . Ticket link in the comments

Many thanks Torbay Councils Heritage Fund

06/11/2026

we are now at Brixham Theatre preparing for the opening night and Tv filming of our theatre drama Jack The Ripper. Tonight was a long evening of rehearsal, tweaking lights and sound and sets. Here Jack the Ripper targets one of his victims.

Come and see the full show- a steampunked reimagining of the stories and some of the theories about Jack the Ripper.

Did you know one of the historical key suspects, Michael Ostrog, lived in Torquay for a time?

Some and see the show on at Theatre on Nov 7th, then touring to , , , Salterton, . Ticket link in the comments

Many thanks toTorbay Councils Heritage Fund

22/10/2026

Behind the scenes- preparing for Jack The Ripper rehearsals, in an absolute hive of activity in our rehearsal room at Chestnut Community Centre , earlier this evening with our amazing team. ❤

(You won’t see the full set in this room due to storage and the fact that the days we aren’t in, the room is used by other groups and organisations so everything has to be cleared away. )

20/10/2026

Yesterday on Monday, several of our Jack the Ripper cast performed excerpts for Brixham Good Companions , a local friendship group that meets monthly at Brixham United Reformed Church. We traditionally take some excerpt scenes there the month before our show tour starts. It was a lovely afternoon and a huge thank you for the beautiful cakes made by Flour Flower cafe.

Address

Brixham

Opening Hours

Wednesday	7pm - 9:30pm
Sunday	12pm - 5pm

Telephone

+447855090589

Website

http://www.southdevonplayers.com/

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