St George, The Dragon & Easter Fun for all the Family!
15 April 2019
by Visit Blackpool
The Electric Sunshine Project CIC are pleased to announce their Spring theatre production: St George & The Dragon, a contemporary street theatre performance by our Community Theatre Company; Th’ESPs.
TESP’s version of St George & The Dragon will retell the original fairy-tale as well as use traditional Mummer’s style street theatre to make the most of some well-known British traditions. but also consider how the story has come to be so popular; who exactly was St George? What is his legacy today? At it’s heart, this is a simple tale of knights (think Monty Python), fair maidens and a puppet dragon.
It will be a 20-30 minute performance, with 9 participants, using all the techniques of street theatre and traditional mummers-style plays to engage an audience for the duration of the story-telling. The story is suitable for all ages and is free to attend.
Friday 19 April:
- 16:30 The Waterloo Pub, Waterloo Road
Saturday 20 April:
- 11:30 Stanley Park (Cafe Terrace)
- 13:30 Winter Gardens Renaissance Room (tickets from Winter Gardens Trust may be necessary)
- 13:30 - 17:00 Blackpool Town Centre – various locations
Th’ESPs is a community theatre company who come together to perform professional quality shows which are created in response to stories and histories which are from or relevant to Blackpool & The Fylde coast communities. Each show we produce is specially designed to consider how stories and theatre can engage local communities in social- awareness; to create productions that are interactive, immersive and take place in unexpected places.
Artistic Director of TESP and Th’ESPs group leader Melanie Whitehead, said “Since I first set up the community theatre in September 2016 we have retained a core group of people who come back each time we start a new project, but we’ve also gained new members who bring different skills and experiences which keeps the energy of the group vibrant and ever-changing!”
There’s nothing quite like what Th’ESPs are offering in this town and we really hope that Blackpool communities of all ages get behind this production and come to see it.