The Woodroffe Association presents a cheque to Lyme Youth Theatre

Lyme Youth Theatre Company were delighted to receive a cheque for £500 from the Woodroffe Association for their participation in National Theatre Connections.  Each year the National Theatre commission ten new plays for young people, and up to 200 groups perform them at their home venue and at a partner theatre.  LYT have been accepted again this year, and will be performing ‘Little Foot’ by Craig Higginson at the Marine Theatre in February, and at  Plymouth Theatre Royal, Drum Theatre, in April/May.  LYT is collaborating with the Woodroffe School this year with Anne Cruwys-Finnigan directing and other school departments assisting with set and publicity design.  LYT Company is also supported by Lyme Regis Town Council and Lyme Regis Club for Young People.

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Nicola Moore, Anne Cruwys-Finnigan, Grace Keeler, Harry Long, Cheyenne Farrar-Low, John Broom, Tim Bell, Joyce Hart.

5th October 2011

LYME REGIS: Book recounts war-time race riot in the Square

By Philip Evans

A new book, described as a “drama-documentary”,  recounts one of the most disturbing war-time incidents in Lyme Regis.

Prior to the D-Day landings hundreds of American GIs were stationed in the town and on the night that Jimmy Cagney entertained the troops in the Marine Theatre there was a riot in The Square between the white and black troops.

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Friday 30th September 2011

Lyme Regis: International fossil event is hailed a success

Bridport and Lyme Regis News

FOSSIL experts from all over the world visited Lyme Regis last week for a major international conference.

It was the first time the annual Symposium for Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy had been held outside a university campus. Specialist talks and public lectures were held at the Marine Theatre and a reception at Lyme Regis Museum.

“Being able to host the conference in the Marine Theatre, looking out over the rocks and cliffs which have produced such amazing finds for two centuries has been a wonderful experience,” he said.

“Where else could you hold a conference like this, just a few hundred metres from the beaches where such famous fossils were, and continue to be found?”  

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