Blakehay-Theatre Weston super Mare

Dear Somerset Fellowship of Drama,

My name is Beth Frigot, I am a professional actor singer based in Cornwall and a member of Pilots Thumb Theatre Company. I am writing to you to personally invite you and your members to our show Touched at the Blakehay Theatre on the 18th June. This will be the first time our company has performed out of Devon and Cornwall, which is exciting as it is daunting. Being unknown to the area, we want to keep growing our network and meet fellow performers. Hence why we want to invite your members; we believe you grow as performers not just be doing, but by watching, buildings friendships and supporting each other. Our industry is a beautiful, crazy, wonderful, mind blowing one, regardless of whether you consider yourself amateur or professional, we are all a part of this incredible industry. We are all performers, many of us at Pilots Thumb started in amateur productions before going on to making this our job. Touched was based off an original short story by Laura Quigley, before our writer and director Beth Hewlett adapted it into the show we have now. It is powerful, thought provoking, tear jerking and impactful.

Below is a description of the show.

Britain didn’t collapse overnight… It slowly came apart. Jobs disappeared, trust eroded, and people stopped looking each other in the eye. Then the Urban Regeneration Programme arrived. Not a government. Not a revolution. Just a system that slipped quietly into people’s lives and called itself order. Some welcome it. Some fear it. Most are simply trying to survive it. K.C. has a past no one cares to understand, so they label her unstable. Dangerous. “Touched.” Yet she still sees things worth holding onto - things others gave up on long ago. Thomas stopped feeling years back. Grief hollowed him out, leaving him to move through life unnoticed; until K.C. notices him. Jessica, his daughter, is sharp and ambitious. To her, emotions are a luxury she can’t afford. Mason believes in the Programme. Rules are safe. Rules keep the dark away. Marly says she wants a new life, but what she really wants is to feel something real before she goes numb for good. In a world designed to keep everyone apart, they find something rare; connection. Not quite love. Not quite friendship. More like the quiet ache of being altered by another person. The Programme claims it can fix society. But to fix something, you often have to strip it down; remove the messy, human parts first: fear, pain, hope, longing. The need for one another. And if we lose those things, what’s left of us? Touched is about people who should have stayed strangers but didn’t, and the cost of feeling in a world that tells you not too I have attached the link below to Blakehay Tickets for your attention or to share with your members.

https://www.blakehay.org.uk/event-details/touched

We would love to see you there.

Yours Sincerely,

Beth Frigot