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The Coronation Play 2pm 7th May at Kennaway House

We'll be performing our new play on the Kennaway House lawn beginning at 2pm on Sunday 7th May. Free admission, free rain, free laughter. 

The Coronation Play 2023

We'll be having a casting and read though meeting in The Anchor Inn upstairs meeting room at 7pm on Thursday March 30th. Come along and join in, but if you can't make it, send a message to let us know you're interested and we'll keep you up to date.

Burns Night Entertainment 2023

For Burns Night 2023 we recreated the Job Song as 'If I were Not An Englishman'. We performed this at Sidmouth Conservative Club for the actual night and at Sidmouth sailing Club Dinner the following Saturday. Here's a video of the event on Saturday.

Mummer Christmas Tour 2023

This was a great success raising £320 for The Children's Hospice South West and visiting The Rising Sun, The Balfour, The Sidmouth Conservative Club (first time ever) , The Swan and The Anchor. Many thanks to all who donated and who came along a cheered. Next outing, Folk Week!!!

Coffee Morning and Craft Fair

Sidmouth Methodist Church Hall

Saturday 15th October 9:30am-12

This is a fundraising event, come along and have a coffee, see some of the craft stalls and have a chat with us about what we get up to and see if its something you'd enjoy.

We're being kindly sponsored by KB Photography & Videography

Sidmouth Halloween Ghost Pub Tour

This year we created a Ghost Pub Tour for Folk Week so we're repeating it for Halloween. Ghost Pubs are the establishments in Sidmouth that have since closed or have changed a bit since they opened, and the tour takes a walk around those sites of interest, with stories on the way. We will stop off at a couple of live venues as well! 

Unfortunately we've had to cancel this but check back for the next event

Sidmouth Regatta

Giants and King Arthur

We'll be taking the giants for a walkabout on 26th August and then on Saturday 27th, 7-8pm we will be performing the King Arthur play outside the Sailing Club, come along and have a laugh, no age restrictions!!!

Folk Week 28th July - 5th August  2022

Below is the schedule of events we will be supporting, most of which will be in the official folk week programme for a change

Covid Play 2021-22

During the light lockdown in November 2020 ,  100 local people in Sidmouth took part in a “filmed on your camera” panto! I went out on the streets of Sidmouth asking people to pretend to be looking for Father Christmas, or pulling on a rope to get him out of a chimney where he had got stuck eating too many mince pies while I filmed them. Amazingly people said yes, and some filmed themselves looking and sent it in

Members of Sidmouth Mummers, Sidmouth Guiser Sisters, Sid Vale Storytellers and Sid Vale Community Productions all took the speaking parts and recorded themselves on their phones. My poor neighbours found themselves roped in as their roof was the designated roof where Father Christmas got stuck. Many of the local shops joined in by searching in their shops for Father Christmas , and Ebenezers Christmas Shop lent us Father Christmas’ sitting room so that Mother and Father Christmas could film their bits! Ashley Leeds even did us a cover song!

Most marvellous was the embodiment of Covid who threatened the health and safety of Sidmouth townspeople and most glorious was the Thursday morning i turned up to film the great battle with Covid in the market square only to find it full of delivery vans! But the people of Sidmouth were not put off by any of this and with gobsmacking gusto they took up sword, broomsticks and pitchforks and told Covid just what they thought of him! It was a joy to see Covid run away to the sea!

It is 40 mins long ( think how long it took me to edit it!) but I had to include all the clips! So join the over 1000 people who have watched it, and if you are local see if you can spot your friends and neighbours in the good fight against Covid. And keep fighting!

Sidmouth Giants 2021

Short video of Sidmouth Giants, Prince George and Sabra, dancing outside The Anchor Inn on Saturday 31st July

Sidmouth Folk Week 2021

Saturday 31st July 4pm onwards

Sidmouth Giants, George and Sabra, will be about town, talking to visitors and posing for photographs

Sunday 1st August 12noon onwards

Sidmouth Mummers will be on tour around Sidmouth, starting outside The Anchor Inn at 12pm.  

Monday 2nd August 7pm

St George and The Covid, the play, will be performed for the first time at The Sidmouth Fringe Festival, Salcombe Regis.

Tuesday 3rd August 6pm

St George and The Covid, the play, will be performed in it's traditional place, around the Market Square area in Sidmouth.

Wednesday 4th August 4pm onwards

Sidmouth Mummers perform at The Ham festival venue  

Thursday 5th August 3:30pm

St George and The Covid, the play, will be performed at The Ham festival venue.  

St George and The Covid was our project to celebrate St George's Day 2021 with a silent film style play.

All performed in 90 minutes with different shifts of actors coming to to perform and be filmed. See the results by going to the YouTube video below.  

A Midsummer’s Sidmouth Guiser Play 2020 - Celebrating the strong women of Sidmouth over the years!

As we were still locked down, a group of ladies decided it was time to speak out and celebrate the women of the town. From this came a video, there being more chance of someone seeing it than in the flesh!