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Devoted to the living art of theatre. Dedicated to producing important works of world theatre and encouraging new playwrights through readings and full productions. |
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We've produced five full-length plays, two of them Off-Broadway and three Off-Off. We've given readings to fourteen new plays and staged two of them. We received an OOBR Award from the Off-Off-Broadway Review, acknowledging our production of R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End. And, we were presented a Local Hero Award from the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (ART/NY) for service to the Off-Broadway community.
Each of our plays was presented uncut and set in the time and place the playwright set the action - for example, our production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was set in Rome and our Journey's End in the trenches of World War I.
The Deptford Players are committed to producing high-quality classical theatre, trusting the texts enough to present them intact and feeling no need to "modernize" them or force an agenda on the script.
That presents a pretty clear idea of what the Deptford Players is all about; classical theatre and new plays with classical themes, ideas and influences.
The Deptford Players - Classical theatre, classically.
The Deptford Players take their name from that locale, and our Reckoning shows that we must pay our debt by providing high quality classical theatre and new works to our audience.
For the past six years, A.R.T./New York has presented Local Hero Awards to some of the unheralded angels of the theatre community - those individuals and small businesses which give of their time, talent and resources to support our members. They are so selfless in their generosity that most of them were genuinely shocked when we called to tell them they were receiving this award. The most common response was, "An award for what, I didn't do anything." Well we are here tonight to say that through your support, you have indeed done something, something very important - you have allowed the arts to flourish in your neighborhood, you have made it possible for dozens of theatre companies to thrive, and you have helped make New York the culture capital of the world. [Text Removed] What do you do if you have a show ready to be produced, you don't have the budget to rent a theatre space, no one's offering you a free space, and it's winter so an outdoors production is out of the question? When Attic Salt Theatre Company found itself in this predicament, they went looking for a theatre company that might trade the use of their space on dark afternoons for all of Attic Salt's box office. Jeff Berry and Lorree True, of The Deptford Players, responded to their need. Not only did they offer their dark Sunday afternoons, but they also donated rehearsal time and storage space, put an ad in their own playbill to help drum up ticket sales, and accepted only taking a portion of the box office. Their understanding generosity allowed a show to be produced that could not have been otherwise.The Deptford Players are honoured to have received this award. It is our belief that theatre companies can and should work together to help each other out. Our arrangement with Attic Salt benefited everyone: Attic Salt brought up a show, the Deptford Players made a little money and some new friends, and audiences got to see a good show they would not otherwise have been able to see.
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