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Theatre group's joy at £10,000
A GRANT of £10,000 has been made to the Esk Valley's only professional theatre group by the Arts Council.
The Glaisdale-based Esk Valley Theatre (EVT) will use the grant to help fund its next production, Second from Last in the Sack Race, due to be staged in August.
The full cost of the production will be 40,000 and EVT has applied to other sources of funding and sponsors to make up the difference.
Over the past five years the company – which is based in the Robinson Institute – has produced small cast plays with two or three actors but Second from Last in the Sack Race, a beautifully captured piece of social history from the period 1935 to 1953, requires five actors with multi-role playing skills.
Director Mark Stratton said: "The company has a loyal audience and we feel it is important to try and offer different styles of work, which not only take the audience on new imaginative journeys, but also challenge the company's creative team and actors.
"The company aims to put theatre at the heart of the local community and sees EVT as a basic cultural service for the region, with the bonus that it creates income for the local economy.
"This year's award from Arts Council England is in effect an award for our whole community.
"We are responsible for delivering the work but the benefits of the event ripple out through the whole valley and beyond.
"Second from Last in the Sack Race is a wry, funny and entertaining play."
The production is supported by Arts Council England, Yorkshire, with a Lottery award through their grants for the arts programme.
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