Sponsors
4Play Theatre Company is a non profit making organisation that survives from production to production on the percent of profit that they have made on the last one. This means that 4Play's sponsors play an absolutely vital part in keeping the company going and keeping the quality of the work they produce of the highest standard possible.
The Courtyard
In 2008 The Courtyard will celebrate it's Tenth Anniversary, over the last decade it has evolved and developed into a well established and highly regarded, vibrant arts centre serving the whole of Herefordshire and the surrounding region.
Highlights in the professional programme have included visits from The Royal National Theatre, The Generating Company (Ariel Circus from the Millennium Dome), Pam Ayres, Jo Brand, Bob Geldof, Patrick Moore, Susannah York, Clive James, Mark Little, The English Shakespeare Company, Helen Shapiro, Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, Mid Wales Opera, Opera Della Luna, Ned Sherrin, The English Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Swan, Pegasus Opera, Craig Charles, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Lindisfarne, Katherine Tickell, Kate Rusby, Red Shift Theatre Company, the Reduced Shakespeare Company, The London Community Gospel Choir, Jack Dee, Lee Evans and Theatre Sans Frontieres, to name but a few.
The Courtyard also hosts regular twice-monthly sell-out comedy and monthly folk clubs, hosts exhibitions by local, national and international artists and has developed a wide ranging film programme to add further to it’s role as the principal cultural provider for Herefordshire.
New partnerships have been formed with many other local professional arts organisations including The Music Pool, Exposure (Herefordshire Photography Festival), New Theatre Works, and Alloy (Herefordshire’s Jewellery makers collective) - all based within the building, and externally The Rural Media Company, The Three Choirs Festival, LAMP (Local Art Made Public) and Hereford Concert Society.
Of particular significance has been The Courtyard’s own in-house work - theatre made in Hereford for Hereford. This work has enabled The Courtyard to promote a completely distinctive programme and enabled the venue to work with many different individuals from both the professional and community fields – actors, directors, designers, musicians – creating a whole host of new work opportunities.
The Courtyard - Hereford's Centre for the Arts
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