A Yorkshire Nativity
7 & 8 December 2007 at The Mart Theatre, Skipton. Click here for details
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Sheep Town at The Mart Theatre Skipton in 2007
Sheep Town Theatre Company is delighted to announce that as of January 2007 we will be the new resident theatre company at Skipton’s Mart Theatre. This will involve five shows during 2007 and regular workshops for both adults and children.
Recent productions
Overdale
Overdale was written to highlight a significant but little told era in Britain's history. Both during and after WW2, Britain held as many as 250,000 POW's in her various camps one of which was the Overdale camp in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Many of these POW's were allowed to work in farming, quarrying and council work and for the most part the people of Britain were thankfully hospitable to their new guests. The writing of Overdale was done with the aid of local historians and a former POW. These people provided us with an invaluable contribution and helped us to produce a work of fiction that is heavily based on facts.
Overdale tells the story of a German POW who takes work on a Craven farm. It is a story of human kinship under political and social pressures.
For enquiries about this or other Sheep Town productions, please contact us here.
• Sheep Town offers new and original theatre for the people of Craven based on local stories, themes and issues. • We aim to make our theatre accessible and affordable to the community. • We source all products and services locally. • Sheep Town is a non-profit making constituted company. • Sheep Town offers a free workshop to local schools on the issues and themes raised in their plays. • Sheep Town Education run classes in acting and theatre for both children and adults in Craven at The Mart.
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