Theatre-in-Callington 2025

Upcoming shows in and around Callington:

If you have a show in or around Callington that you would like added to this list leave a comment below:

MURDER MYSTERY EVENING
‘Midsummer Murder’ by Allana Hansell may 2025

Previous 2025 shows:

Harrowbarrow village hall poster, February show

OZ THE MUSICAL

An Original Raucous Rebellious Retelling of The Wizard of Oz

Written and directed by Eleanor Valdebouze

8th February 2025

1pm Callington Town Hall

Click Here for more information about Vocal Footprint

Liskeard lions Pantomime 2025 Liskeard public hall, Frankenstein

Liskeard Lions panto ‘Frankenstein Does Pantomime’

Liskeard Lions panto ‘Frankenstein Does Pantomime’ takes place 23rd-25th January.Get ready for a hilarious twist on the classic tale of Frankenstein, brought to you by the Liskeard Lions in the form of a fun-filled pantomime. Their talented cast will bring to life a classic story with a modern twist that will entertain both kids and adults.

Get ready to boo the villain, cheer for the hero, and sing along with the catchy tunes. Don’t miss out on this exciting event that promises to be a magical experience for the whole family.

Grab your tickets now and let the show begin!Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th January at 7.30pm, Saturday 25th matinee performance at 3.30pm. The Public Hall, Liskeard Adults £6 (plus booking fee), children £1As usual Thursday’s performance is free to local pensioners but tickets must still be booked online

Book tickets online via Eventbrite

Liskeard public hall

caradon youth theatre poster, Liskeard pubic hall

Whistle down the wind

CYT are excited to present Lloyd Webber’s wonderful …WHISTLE DOWN THE WINDA powerful story of prejudice, innocence and hope.This is a beautiful, stirring and life-affirming story set in America’s Deep South … a fugitive is caught between the prejudice of adults and the innocence of the young and as fantasy and reality collide – a community is torn. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s emotive score combines haunting songs and explosive rock music, including ‘When Children Rule the World’, ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ and ‘No Matter What’, which became a hit for Boyzone in 1998! ★★★★ Imaginatively conceived… It all amounts to an entirely enthralling musical.

Liskeard Town Hall

Friday 10th , Saturday 11, Sunday 12 of January

Beauty and the Beast Pantomime

Bring your friends and family for an afternoon filled with laughter, music and dazzling costumes, while you enjoy a well-loved enchanting fairy tale!

Doors open at 1.30pm. Show starts at 2pm. 20 Minute interval. Show finishes at 3.30pm.

T&Cs apply. All children must be accompanied by an adult. All attendees require a ticket. Non-transferable, non-refundable. Full payment is required at time of booking.

China Fleet Country Club, PL12 6LJ

11 Jan 2025 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

‘What’s Up Dick?’

by Allana Hansell

Local lad Dick Callington wants to seek fame and fortune in the bright lights of London Town. He and his best feline friend leave their old life on the farm and Dick gets a job at a fancy department store, Harvey Knickers.

Along the way he makes bold and exciting new friends, and encounters some hairy shoplifters, who threaten to bankrupt the store. Will they take down Harvey Knickers? Can Dick outsmart them? Will Dick find true love with the girl next door?

PERFORMANCE DATES

27, 28 February & 1, 6, 7, 8 March 2025!

Callington Prim-Raf Theatre

2024

A look back at 2024….

From pantos to plays and parties galore,
Charity events and so much more.
It’s been a year both busy and bright,
Here’s our journey, captured in light!

Dawn French at the PrimRaf Callington, 2024 — Panto at the Prim-Raf (CADS)

Snowenna and the seven piskies @ the Primraf Callington poster — Panto at the Prim-Raf (CADS)

2024 at HD Sound & Lighting

Christmas party

Christmas party for Callington’s Slimming World

We had the pleasure of providing the entertainment for slimming world’s Christmas party. Held at Callington Town Hall..

Kelliwik Golowi

Oz the Musical….

OZ The musical

An Original Raucous Rebellious Retelling of The Wizard of Oz

Written and directed by Eleanor Valdebouze

We have now joined with the cast with rehearsals on there upcoming show OZ the musical. We are providing Sound & Lighting, and a few special effects.

Vocal Footprint Groups:

Drama Club

Ages 5 – 18

Callington Town Hall

Details for callington's local drama group, vocal footprint

Singing Club

Ages 5 -18

Callington Town Hall

Singing Club

Parent and Child

Menheniot Parish Hall

Open books!

Vocal Footprint is taking on new talent to join in SEPTEMBER 2024.

– Drama and Singing workshops, ages 5 to 18

– Adult vocal group 18 +

– One on one lessons available.

– All abilities welcome.

To improve on your vocal skills, performance or to simply meet like minded people

DM or email to sign up.

Come join the Vocal Footprint family!

Vocal Footprint has a range of groups suitable for Children from ages 5 to 18 also a parent & child group. The Drama and Singing clubs take place in Callington Town Hall, Mondays for Drama and Wednesdays for singing, with the parent and child singing workshops taking place in Menheniot Parish Hall on Tuesdays, See the above posters for contact details.

Christmas in Callington

Upcoming Christmas events in date order:

If you have a Christmas event in Callington or around Callington add it in to the comment section and I will update this page.

Jump to date: 27th November , 28th November , 29th November , 30th November , 1st December , 5th December , 6th December , 7th December , 14th December, 15th December, 20th December , 22nd December, 23rd December , 24th December

Thursday 14th November

Thursday 28th November

Christmas shopping evening @ Louis Tea Rooms

Friday 29th November

Craft Fair South hill, Free toy swap & Lions Christmas Bingo

Callington lions christmas bingo in Callington town hall 29th November 7pm

Saturday 30th November

Christmas Fayre, Christmas bingo & Kelliwik Golowi

Christmas fayre in St.Marys church callington

Kelliwik Golowi

visit the Facebook page for the latest updates

Sunday 1st December

Callington Community Choir

Thursday 5th December

Festive Wreath workshop

See Facebook for details

Friday 6th December

Christmas tree festival

The Christmas tree festival will be taking place in St.Marys church, starting on 6th of December until 20th of December with entertainment on the 6th. Entertainment including Callington Town band, local schools, St.Marys choir & Callington CADS

Christmas quiz Louis tea room, Callington 2024

Saturday 7th December

Christmas Floral Demonstration

Christmas craft market

In Callington Town Hall with Santa in his grotto. 10am untill 2pm, run by Callington Town Council. For details see website or call (01579) 384039

Visit Santa in his Grotto in Callington Town Hall on Saturday 7th December 2024

Christmas Craft Fayre 7th December 2024 in Callington Town Hall

Light switch on

The Christmas light switch on starts at 4.00 on the Town square, Santa will be arriving on this sleigh to help turn on the lights (5.00Pm) After this, visit the Christmas market taking place in the pannier market and also see the Christmas tree festival which is inside St.Marys church. (See above for details)

Switch on times for the Christmas lights in Callington

Christmas market

The Christmas market will be in the pannier market as usual. The market starts at 3.30 and runs untill 7.30pm.

See this Facebook events page for updates

Callington Christmas market in the Pannier market 2024

Thursday 12th December

Friday 13th December

Winter food drive, addison park Callington

Saturday 14th December

Wreath Workshop, St.Mary’s Church

Wreath workshop in St.Marys Church Callington 2024

Santa VS the people

“I swear to ell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!” Sants, probably.Santa has been put on trial for the crime of global warming as Jeff Bezos and his merry gang of Christmas thieves stand against him. Without being able to prove he is innocent, Amazon Prime may take over Christmas …. Forever!

Witness the most hilarious courtroom drama unfold at OMF Theatre’s ‘Santa Vs the People’. This production will be performed on stage as a radio play

Age 11+TICKETS ON SALE Now!

Santa VS the people, showing at Callington Prim-Raf theatre

Sunday 15th December

Tuesday 17th December

Carols By Candlelight, St.Sampson’s Church

Friday 20th December

Callington Christmas party

Taking place in Callington Town Hall, Tickets from Lost Surfers Cafe, Pannier market

see the Facebook events page for the latest updates

Callington Christmas party, lost surfers callington. 2024 with live music

Sunday 22nd December

Carols By Candlelight, St.Mary’s Church & traditional carol service, Callington Methodist church

Christmas Carols by Candlelight in St.Marys church Callington 2024

Monday 23rd December

Christmas Activity Afternoon

Tuesday 24th December

Christingle in Callingtons St.marys church 2024 December

Christmas eve midnight communion Callington church

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Glow party

Children’s Glow Party

This week we were at South Hill Village Hall in Golberdon, for a Children’s Glow party. We had lots of Brodies friends in to celebrate her 6th birthday party.

Everyone looked amazing with their UV face paint, and glow sticks. Our UV cannon really did a great job!

Kids glow party at south hill parish hall near Callington

Software for live shows

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Sound

Lighting

Other useful software

Sound

MultiPlay

MultiPlay is a cue system for mainly audio cue, although you can cue lighting software, midi, video etc.

The software is now free to use, download here, Although free to use please support the author with a donation. Take a look at the dev’s website.

The software does take a bit of time to get your head around, but its flawless. So many options for how you play your cues from fades, pre setting volumes, timings etc. Once you have your show set up all you need to do is press the Go button. for easy of use I find a use button very handy. For this I use a Steam deck with a OSC plugin to control the buttons.

Using these buttons to control Multiplay & QLC all with out using the mouse, which helps when doing both sound & Lighting on the same computer with multiple monitors. If your interested I bought mine from amazon. For the Stream Deck to work I use OSC Commands.

MultiPlay is a Windows based program designed to play cues for theatre or corporate use. It is free to use in both amateur and commercial environments. Some of the cue types available in MultiPlay 3:

Single (mono or stereo) audio file
A list of audio files to play sequentially for pre-show, intermission, etc
Timed pauses
Control cues to act upon other cues
Serial or network strings to trigger external devices
OSC commands
MIDI sequence (music) playback
MIDI command to control external equipment
MIDI Mute for audio muting on external mixer
Images with transition effects
Video playback
Lots more!

Cues can be linked in various ways to play at the same time or after each other, etc as well as stop/fade other cues. Productions can be named, saved, loaded, printed and exported. Each audio cue can be assigned to one of several audio groups. Each of those groups can be assigned any one of the available stereo audio cards. A preview function can be routed to another stereo output. The beta releases may have small issues, but are generally very usable.

Lighting

QLC+

One of my favourite programs to use for lighting control has to be QLC+. This DMX control software is packed with features and I have used it on lots of shows now and I am still finding new features along the way.

With QLC+ you have the ability to run a small show with only a few fixtures to massive show with multiple universes. As will all DMX control software there is a learning curve as all of these programs work a little differently, but the program is broken down in to simple pages for the basic functions such as individual tabs for fixtures, simple desk, inputs & outputs, and the the best most useful page is the virtual console page.

This visual console page is completely customizable to your needs, and all functions, scenes, etc. can be control from here. And as an added bonus the virtual console is available over http, put simply this means you can control your show away from you desk on another computer, phone or tablet.

As well as the http gui control you can also control the software via midi, osc, or other standalone hardware and software via the input/output tab.

QLC+ has a good userbase, with a forum and lots of videos on YouTube to help you get started. The online help pages are also a great way to get started.

And This software is free, it has to be the best free software for DMX, and probably better than a lot of the paid options.

At the moment I am using Version 4 which is the most stable version of the software, which can be download from: https://qlcplus.org/download

and the user manual is here:

https://docs.qlcplus.org/v4

Lxplan

LXplan : LXPlan is an application for drawing light plots and generating paperwork. LXPlan combines drawing a light plot with editing information attached to graphic objects in the drawing. LXPlan produces reports by linking the graphics, attached data, and additional databases related to the properties of these objects. LXPlan is still being developed and tested.

Please help by providing feedback on problems encountered using LXPlan. LXPlan is currently available for Windows and Linux (Ubuntu/Debian). LXPlan runs using Java(tm). A version is available for Windows that includes an OpenJDK runtime so that nothing else needs to be installed.

An alternate Windows version is available, primarily for 32bit systems, that uses Oracle Java 8 if it is installed separately. The Linux version uses whatever Java(tm) is the default for the system it is running on.LXPlan is free to use for non-commercial purposes.

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Other software of interest

Adminsoft account: free accounting software

If you find the above software useful consider supporting the authors by sending a donation, so they can continue there good work. If you have any software you recommend leave a comment below.

Theatre-in-Callington 2024

Upcoming Theatre Shows

The 2025 page is here

Next Year:

OZ The Musical

8^TH February 2025 1pm

Callington Town Hall

Previous 2024 shows:

SANTA VS THE PEOPLE

Saturday 14th December

“I swear to ell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!” Sants, probably.Santa has been put on trial for the crime of global warming as Jeff Bezos and his merry gang of Christmas thieves stand against him. Without being able to prove he is innocent, Amazon Prime may take over Christmas …. Forever!

Witness the most hilarious courtroom drama unfold at OMF Theatre’s ‘Santa Vs the People’. This production will be performed on stage as a radio play

Age 11+TICKETS ON SALE Now!

Jump start pack

GREPRO Jump Starter Power Pack

I bought this handy little jump start pack a few months ago, when my van was having trouble starting and since I bought it, it has not seen any use. That is until today when I went to start our lawnmower.

As soon as it was connected, to the little mower it started on the first attempt, success!!

Later that day, this jump start pack was put in to use again this time on a friend’s car, that had it’s lights left on. This time the pack was left on a little longer and the car came to life after the second attempt. So in short I recommend this jump start pack, you never know when it will be needed.

I bought mine from Amazon when it was on offer. And today it is on offer again at the price of £56.99 which is 43% off the regular price. Link here

Upcoming shows in and around Callington:

Previous 2025 shows:

OZ THE MUSICAL

Liskeard Lions panto ‘Frankenstein Does Pantomime’

Whistle down the wind

Beauty and the Beast Pantomime

‘What’s Up Dick?’

by Allana Hansell

A look back at 2024….

Christmas party for Callington’s Slimming World

OZ The musical

An Original Raucous Rebellious Retelling of The Wizard of Oz

Written and directed by Eleanor Valdebouze

Vocal Footprint Groups:

Drama Club

Ages 5 – 18

Singing Club

Ages 5 -18

Singing Club

Parent and Child

Upcoming Christmas events in date order:

Thursday 14th November

Thursday 28th November

Friday 29th November

Saturday 30th November

Kelliwik Golowi

Sunday 1st December

Thursday 5th December

Festive Wreath workshop

Friday 6th December

Christmas tree festival

Saturday 7th December

Christmas craft market

Light switch on

Christmas market

Thursday 12th December

Friday 13th December

Saturday 14th December

Santa VS the people

Sunday 15th December

Tuesday 17th December

Friday 20th December

Callington Christmas party

Sunday 22nd December

Monday 23rd December

Tuesday 24th December

Children’s Glow Party

Sound

MultiPlay

Lighting

QLC+

Lxplan

Other software of interest

Upcoming Theatre Shows

The 2025 page is here

Next Year:

OZ The Musical

8TH February 2025 1pm

Previous 2024 shows:

SANTA VS THE PEOPLE

Saturday 14th December

GREPRO Jump Starter Power Pack

8^TH February 2025 1pm