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HALL FOR CORNWALL, TRURO, ENGLAND - December 21st 2023 : Stage side and BTS images of a performance by the Cornwall Playhouse of Peter Pan; Photographed by HFC photographer in residence Hugh Hastings.

Well here’s a giant opportunity to gain real theatre industry experience! We’re putting a casting call out to young people across our region who love performing. Here’s a chance to get in on the fee-fi-fo-FUN (get it?). Be the sparkle on our stage, performing with professionals, in the youth ensemble of this year’s Christmas show at Hall for Cornwall… 

It’s panto’ time, and Cornwall Playhouse Productions 2024 festive extravaganza will be a giant production of Jack And The Beanstalk. We’re casting two teams of young people to make up our Youth Ensemble, joining our professional cast for the production which runs 06-31 Dec 2024. Availability for rehearsals required from 04 Nov, auditions will take place on 07 Sep, and we’re looking for brilliant youngsters from school years 5-10 or equivalent ages.  

We’re unable to audition anyone going into Year 11 GCSE or who is 15 or older at 01 Aug 2024.  

Interested? Grab your beanstalk climbing gear and click below to apply. 

Closing date for applications 19 Aug 2024. No late applications accepted. We’ll share audition info’ around 2 weeks out from auditions.   

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Ocean At The End Of The Lane Coming to Cornwall in 2023

“Monster-powered adrenaline spectacular” The Guardian

★★★★★
“Theatre at its gob-smacking best” Daily Telegraph

We’re delighted to announce that the National’s incredible genre-bending fantasy THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is departing it’s West End residency and coming to Hall for Cornwall in September 2023. Tickets will be on sale to members in August 2022.

FIND OUT MORE AND BOOK HERE

Adapted by Joel Horwood from the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman, this spectacular and thrilling adventure is a theatrical tour de force of imagination and storytelling.

Returning to his childhood home, a man finds himself standing beside the pond of the old Sussex farmhouse where he used to play. He’s transported to his 12th birthday when his friend Lettie claimed it wasn’t a pond, but an ocean…

Plunged into a magical world, their survival depends on their ability to reckon with ancient forces that threaten to destroy everything around them.

Find out more and book here 

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Hall For Cornwall announces world premiere of Fisherman’s Friends The Musical

The first major show to take to the stage of our newly transformed theatre will be the world premiere of Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical.

The brand new production has been revealed as the debut show to tread the boards of our landmark theatre when it reopens later this year following a three-year, multi-million pound redevelopment.

Julien Boast, CEO and Creative Director at Hall for Cornwall said: “We think there’s no better way to raise the curtain on Hall for Cornwall following our major transformation.

“Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical is a feel-good story celebrating friendship, community and music, a perfect tonic to lift us from recent events which have impacted all our lives and a great celebration of people, passion and possibilities which are at the heart of our new theatre. The show will form the foundation of our inaugural launch season.”

The musical, which will premiere here in Cornwall later this year, charts the rise of Port Isaac’s famous sea shanty group and their major record deal signed in 2010.

Since then Fisherman’s Friends have performed for Her Majesty the Queen, played Glastonbury’s iconic Pyramid Stage and entertained hundreds of thousands of fans at home and abroad, winning numerous awards along the way.

The musical has been adapted from the 2019 hit film Fisherman’s Friends, which grossed $11.5m worldwide. It will feature many of the much-loved sea shanties made famous by the group, including including Keep Haulin’, Nelson’s Blood, No Hopers Jokers & Rogues, Sweet Maid Of Madeira and many more.

And the show has the blessing of the Fisherman’s Friends themselves with the group saying: “Blimey me, how did that happen! We are so proud that the musical based on our unexpected voyage will be launched down here in the heart of Cornwall.”

Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical will be the first co-production our new in-house producing company, Cornwall Playhouse Productions, produced in association with producers Royo.

The production will be directed by James Grieve (former Joint Artistic Director of Paines Plough and former Associate Director of the Bush Theatre) and written by Brad Birch (Tremor, Black Mountain, The Brink, Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated, The Endless Ocean, Tender Bolus). It is designed by Lucy Osborne with musical supervision from David White.

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