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They Dream of Home is a promenade production which takes place in a number of village sites, thus requiring the audience to walk between scenes. Compared with, for example, when the roads were closed for the first TVCT production in 2000, Parson Terry’s Dinner, the cost has multiplied and the procedure for achieving it hugely complex.
I need to ask for people’s co-operation in parking elsewhere (the sight of modern cars will undermine our attempt to transport people’s imagination back to the early 1900s) and, if driving, tolerate a short wait whilst the audience moves from site to site.
In addition to the Parish Hall car park, I am hoping I can negotiate some audience parking spaces on the edges of the village so that the sight of cars is kept to a minimum. Stewards will be on duty in reflective jackets to advise. Please contact me if you have any thoughts on this issue and/or are prepared to help beforehand and on the performance nights. It would help if motorists from other parishes could avoid driving through Payhembury.
John Somers
