The Common Players

Fittingly this is a truly organic project that ‘grew’ from our close linkages and friendship with staff at the Exmoor Society.  Who after an animated discussion on what Exmoor futures should look like asked us to answer a simple question, in an innovative and engaging way.   So with the question’ what do we do on Exmoor, plant trees, sheep, windmills or people!  We devised Tracks & Traces, and the Exmoor Society along with Exmoor National Park agreed enthusiastically to fund the project.

The project has been devised to be fun and flexible and includes; support for local schools via an education programme devised by Means of Production Community Arts, which features an Exmoor teaching pack and a behind-the-scenes youth film documentary project for gifted and talented young people in the Exmoor Area; Tours will be beginning in September 2007 to primary and middle Schools across the region using live theatre, poetry, film and hi-tech, computerised flight simulation technology to switch young people on to the issues facing their environment.

Produced and performed by the Common Players the performance involves three actors playing more than 20 roles between them, taking a high energy look at everything on Exmoor and charting the environmental pressures facing the beautiful wild moorlands of the National Park area.

Exmoor National Park is situated on the Bristol Channel coast of Devon and Somerset in South West England. The park covers 267 square miles (692 km²) of hilly open moorland and 34 miles (55 km) of coast. Exmoor is one of the first British National Parks, designated in 1954, and is named after its main river, the River Exe.

For ore information regarding Exmoor and its wonders please visit the following:.

www.exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk