BITE SIZE PLAYS
21 - 23 November 2024
Our latest Bite Size Plays production, 'And The Winner Is...' featured four award-winning short comedies written by Tony Domaille, at The Swan Thornbury, Grace Lodge, Thornbury, and Oldbury Memorial Hall.
'My Hero' - A super-hero couple's marriage is on the rocks.
'When All Around You' - A medieval executioner is very keen on customer service
'House Hunting' - A famous vampire visits at Estate Agent.
'Apocalypse Then?'- The end of the world is not going to plan.
ALL THREE VENUES SOLD OUT WITH GREAT REVIEWS -
'Just fab.'
'What a great evening of entertainment.'
'Five stars!'
'Such a good idea. Great food, great plays.'
'So Clever.'
'Brilliant evening.'
AND
We opened the Bristol One Act Festival 27th February 2025 at The Olympus Theatre, Bristol. BS34 8LP with Tony Domaille's brand new drama 'I Know a Place' featuring Alex Nixon, Phil Domaille, Sarah Cully Morgan and Sarah Wiggins.
'This was a beautifully chilling opening to our festival. You kept us on tenterhooks as the the story unfolded and ticked by. Would Lucy be found dead or alive? This was an extremely competent piece of theatre, very nicely directed and presented by this talented group. (Jan Palmer Sayer - GoDA)
Nominations -
Best Décor, Best Actor – Phil Domaille as Dr Vincent; Alex Nixon as Damien Curtis, Best Director - Ella Dimapo
Award -
Best Supporting Actress – Sarah Wiggins as Lucy
Then we appeared on the opening night of the Avon Short Play Festival on 6th March at Chipping Sodbury Town Hall. That performance collected more nominations and awards -
Nominations -
Phil Domaille Best Supporting Actor and Sarah Wiggins Best Actress.
Awards -
Best Technical, Peter Minshall. Best Director, Ella Dimapo, Best Original Script, Tony Domaille, Best Actor. Alex Nixon, Best Play, JTP Theatre.
We went on to represent Avon in the Regional Final at the Merlin Theatre, Frome on 17 May where we were delighted by audience and adjudicator reactions to the play.
A radio version of the play also featured on Thornbury Radio in May, completing a successful run.
Productions
RADIO
Our short plays and monologues feature on Thornbury Radio, every Tuesday evening between 7 and 8pm. We can also be found from time to time on BBC Radio Bristol, Somerset, Gloucester and Wiltshire.
JTP Theatre's radio work is kindly sponsored by Bonds Estate Agents of Thornbury
BITE SIZE THEATRE WITH JTP
Our Youtube channel also has our plays and monologues, first performed
on BBC Radio or Thornbury Radio.
PAST PRODUCTIONS
July on Thornbury Radio
Tune in to Thornbury Radio from 7pm on Tuesday evenings to listen to one of our many Bite Size radio plays, or monologues.
July is Guest Writers Month on the Journeyman Hour. JTP Theatre take a break some weeks, while providing the talented casts in others.
1st July – Jonathan Edgington delivers his own clever monologue, entitled ‘Thanks, Mum (and Thomas Hardy)'.
8th July – JTP Theatre’s Mandy Aldridge and Pete James feature in Jay Cundall-Walker’s light comedy ‘Slimmer’s Planet’.
15th July – Jamie McLeish’s ‘Blind Date’ has a couple in an awkward situation, featuring JTP Theatre’s Catherine Hamilton and Phil Domaille
22nd July – ‘Spilt Milk’. Local writer Hilary Smith delivers her own short story from her ‘The Trouble with Paul’ series.
29th July – Claire Jaggard’s touching monologue ‘Learning to Fly’ is performed by JTP Theatre’s Lynne Cartlidge.
LISTEN AGAIN
https://www.thornbury.radio/listen/podcasts/theatre
JTP Theatre very much appreciate the kind sponsorship of their radio work by Bonds of Thornbury Estate Agents, 14, The Plain, Thornbury, Bristol BS35 2BD Tel 01454 858007
