Dressing the Part

Chagford Cricket Club houses a rare and unexpected secret: a tractor garage that, alongside stumps, balls and cricket helmets, is home to a treasury of theatre costumes. The rails of outfits - from ball gowns to civil war uniforms - have been lovingly compiled by amateur performers wielding sewing kits and boxes of sequins for more than forty years.

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Let's go catch a Beast...

They say you should 'never work with animals or children'.  While we've never worked with live animals, we did work with children pretending to be them in Honk!, our first Starling Arts Summer School back in 2010.  It was a combination that could have seen us running for the hills (had we agreed with the above statement), but instead it left us inspired to continue our Devon Summer School programme, which is now in its third year.

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