The Warehouse Theatre
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The Warehouse Theatre, located in Hope Street, Weymouth, Dorset, England
, has been home to the Weymouth Drama Club
since 1993. The Drama Club owns and runs the property, which is primarily used for rehearsing forthcoming productions, although also includes:
When the brewery
stopped mass-brewing in 1990 the building was redundant until the Weymouth Drama Club
came alonng in 1993. After a good cleaning effort, the space was made available for rehearsal and now holds an extensive costume store that is available for hire to the public, as well as a props store, workshop and lighting and sound facilities.
The building is available for hire to local customers, but is primarily used for rehearsing forthcoming Drama Club productions. Although the organization is an Amateur Dramatic one, many professionals lend their advice and skills to make the productions top quality. There are also several social events that occur during the month
The Club strive to maintain the original character of the building, while maintaining an up-to-date multi-purpose facility. Fundraising events are held at the Warehouse to maintain the upkeep of the space, and also to fund the Drama Club's productions. The club recently completed a campaign to buy new seating for productions. This is mainly due to Friends of the Club.
The following is a list of the productions that have taken place at the Warehouse Theatre:
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
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, has been home to the Weymouth Drama Club
Weymouth Drama Club
The Weymouth Drama Club is an amateur dramatics organisation located in Weymouth, Dorset, England. It has been producing comedies, musicals and plays since 1931....
since 1993. The Drama Club owns and runs the property, which is primarily used for rehearsing forthcoming productions, although also includes:
- A workshop for building theatre sets
- An extensive costume and props store
- A conference meeting room
- Lighting and sound facilities
- A kitchen
History
The Warehouse Theatre started out in the c.1930s being the main coal storage for the local Devonish Brewery, located in Hope Square, Weymouth.When the brewery
Brewery
A brewery is a dedicated building for the making of beer, though beer can be made at home, and has been for much of beer's history. A company which makes beer is called either a brewery or a brewing company....
stopped mass-brewing in 1990 the building was redundant until the Weymouth Drama Club
Weymouth Drama Club
The Weymouth Drama Club is an amateur dramatics organisation located in Weymouth, Dorset, England. It has been producing comedies, musicals and plays since 1931....
came alonng in 1993. After a good cleaning effort, the space was made available for rehearsal and now holds an extensive costume store that is available for hire to the public, as well as a props store, workshop and lighting and sound facilities.
The building is available for hire to local customers, but is primarily used for rehearsing forthcoming Drama Club productions. Although the organization is an Amateur Dramatic one, many professionals lend their advice and skills to make the productions top quality. There are also several social events that occur during the month
The Club strive to maintain the original character of the building, while maintaining an up-to-date multi-purpose facility. Fundraising events are held at the Warehouse to maintain the upkeep of the space, and also to fund the Drama Club's productions. The club recently completed a campaign to buy new seating for productions. This is mainly due to Friends of the Club.
Past productions (by year)
In 1997, the club decided to start using the Warehouse Theatre for main productions as well as the Weymouth Pavilion.The following is a list of the productions that have taken place at the Warehouse Theatre:
1997
- Pride And PrejudicePride and PrejudicePride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England...
1998
- Billy LiarBilly LiarBilly Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse, which was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical and a TV series. The work has inspired and featured in a number of popular songs....
- Passion Killers
1999
- Victoriana
- Stepping Out
2000
- Anyone For Breakfast
- The Ghost Train
2001
- The Weekend
- Blithe SpiritBlithe Spirit (play)Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to...
2002
- The Business Of Murder
- Murder In Play
2003
- Unleashed
- Herbal Bed
2004
- Unoriginal Sin
- Wyrd SistersWyrd SistersWyrd Sisters is Terry Pratchett's sixth Discworld novel, published in 1988, and re-introduces Granny Weatherwax of Equal Rites.- Plot :...
- Love Begins At 50
2005
- The Enquiry
2006
- An Inspector CallsAn Inspector CallsAn Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union and 1946 in the UK. It is considered to be one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre...
2007
- Jeffrey Bernard Is UnwellJeffrey Bernard is UnwellJeffrey Bernard is Unwell is a play by Keith Waterhouse about real-life journalist Jeffrey Bernard. Bernard was still alive at the time the play was first performed in the West End in 1989.Bernard wrote the "Low Life" column in The Spectator...
- Death Becomes Us
- Inspector Drake & The Perfeckt Crime
2008
- Stones in His PocketsStones in His PocketsStones in His Pockets is a two-hander written in 1996 by Marie Jones for the DubbleJoint Theatre Company in Dublin, Ireland.-Plot summary:...