Member-run Exeter Drama Company is presenting an original production at Longdown Village Hall on Thursday 8, Friday 9 and Saturday 10 December.
Written and directed by company member Genni Trickett, Weird Women is an atmospheric, intergenerational tale of ancient magic in which three sisters who share a dark secret reunite at their Lancashire childhood home following their mother’s funeral.
The company consists of 50 members who are actively involved in all aspects of putting on productions from performing to making tea for audience members.
All are invited to try their hand at building scenery, creating costumes or setting up sound and lighting.
Exeter Drama Company began in 1954 as The Whipton Drama Company. Its first production as The Exeter Drama Company was Pinocchio in 1958.
The following year it moved to Stepcote Hill where its first production was Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit.
Since then the group has explored many genres, putting on comedies, tragedies, murder mysteries, ghost stories, pantomimes, farces and thrillers.
Its annual programme now includes four extended and four one-night productions which are rehearsed at St. Michael’s Church in Heavitree and performed in Exeter venues and village halls beyond the city.
It became a registered charity in 2009.
Weird Women is at 7.30pm on Thursday 8, Friday 9 and Saturday 10 December 2022 at Longdown Village Hall. Tickets cost £7 and are available from the Exeter Drama Company website.
