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A writer-led creative team bringing innovative professional theatre to the south west. Our first production was: Dot, the Faun and the Elfin Child. What will follow next...?
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Sally Whyte, playwright... |
June Trask, director... |
Sally Whyte is an actor, director and writer and has taught drama in the community to students with learning disabilities. She has had many short pieces performed through Angie Street’s PlayWrites group, Juno Theatre, the Salisbury Fringe, Chalke Valley Festival, Dorchester Festival of Scriptwriting and in Whitstable. She has written six full length plays, ‘Dot’ being her most recent. Her adaptation of The Secret Garden for a large community cast was performed in 2021 as the country and theatre in general emerged from the pandemic. Her other plays have included themes of desperate immigrants, the elderly, family secrets, dementia, mental health issues, teenagers at risk and the joys of snail breeding! Sally has started work on a new piece ‘Triptych’ which she plans on developing in 2024.
Comments on Sally's writing: “What a brilliant script. It’s unlike anything I’ve read, surreal and beautiful (AND SO FUNNY) but tackling such topics. Beyond excited! What a find of a writer!!!" "Sally's writing dances." |
June Trask is excited to work with Sally Whyte on her new play. June has extensive experience directing theatre, from children's plays, high school theatre to professional productions and has directed short plays in London at The Pleasance and Soho. She and her company, Moondog Productions, toured And Then They Came for Me by James Still, about Eva Schloss and Ed Silverberg's lives as teens during the Holocaust, around England schools and theatres for seven years. She has a BA and MA from California State University, and an MLitt degree, with emphasis in directing Shakespeare, from Oxford.
June, Sally and the 2024 cast of Dot, The Faun and the Elfin Child
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Why Dot Dot Dot (...) ?
An ellipsis: the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues ... something left unsaid.
time to take a break ... rethink what you were about to say ... make sense of another’s words ... formulate a lie ... handle your fear ... wonder if it’s worth continuing ... prepare for battle ... accept your personal diminishment ...
In mathematics the symbol ... means ‘continue on in like manner’, ‘continue this pattern’, or ‘continue this pattern until told to stop’.
In the 1560s, ‘an ellipse’ in geometry, [from the Greek origin ἔλλειψις], meant 'come short' or ... by extension ... 'omit'. It's not that an ellipse comes short of being a circle; rather, it comes short of the slope of the side of a cone. An ellipse in grammar meant a falling short ... a defect ... something left out.
Where are the dot dot dots in your life?
time to take a break ... rethink what you were about to say ... make sense of another’s words ... formulate a lie ... handle your fear ... wonder if it’s worth continuing ... prepare for battle ... accept your personal diminishment ...
In mathematics the symbol ... means ‘continue on in like manner’, ‘continue this pattern’, or ‘continue this pattern until told to stop’.
In the 1560s, ‘an ellipse’ in geometry, [from the Greek origin ἔλλειψις], meant 'come short' or ... by extension ... 'omit'. It's not that an ellipse comes short of being a circle; rather, it comes short of the slope of the side of a cone. An ellipse in grammar meant a falling short ... a defect ... something left out.
Where are the dot dot dots in your life?
