Cast and Creative

Meet the Leading Ladies….

Jenny Start has been part of several local theatre companies and has acted in both indoor and outdoor plays, large community events and more intimate theatre pieces.  Recent roles include Beckett’s The Play and The Thirty Nine Steps and Tales form the East, and Uncommon Players last production Speaking in Tongues.  Jenny also participates in role playing for professional development and training.

Janet Hookway has been involved in drama and theatre for most of her adult life. A member of the Northcott Community Company for many years, she has taken roles in several productions at the Exeter Northcott Theatre and by touring with short  plays to rural communities. In 2009 she went to Mumbai, India, to take a role in a feature film being made there.

Jan has been involved with 'new writing', performing material locally  and in 2010 taking a play written by a local writer to the Barnstaple Arts Festival. In February 2011 Jan took a role in Speaking in Tongues  with the Uncomon Players performing at the Exeter Northcott Theatre and the Bushell Theatre.

With the Common Players Imogen Smith bounced around as Mrs Macbeth in Mrs Macbeth's Hostile Bid and appeared in 2 and 3D as Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future in A Christmas Carol.   She recently toured the country with To Kill a Mockingbird and played an Iraqi activist in Palace of the End at the Arcola Theatre.  Other work includes the title role in The Snow Queen at the Brewhouse Theatre Taunton; Marie in Woyzeck, Albiera in The Mona Lisas and Indra and Esme in the three pieces of the Echo Project (about Minehead) with Theatre Melange; To the Mountain by Trevor Griffiths; Losing It at Soho Theatre; Woman in The Play About the Baby at BAC; Hekabe in Trojan Women with Actors of Dionysus; A Midsummer Night's Dream with Bard Unbound; The Winter's Tale at the Royal Theatre Northampton and Coriolanus directed by Steven Berkoff.