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The Three Musketeers by Aleksandre Dumas, performed by the University of Essex's East 15 Acting School

Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th July 2024

Gates Open 6.15pm for a 7.00pm Start.

All tickets must be purchased in advance and there is NO late entry.

Cost

All tickets are £10.00 per person via Ticketsource.

Location

The performance will take place at various locations in the Mansion and Gardens, where the audience will move to the different locations. Our Gardens are undulating/uneven lawn surfaces on a sloping site. Unfortunately therefore this performance is unsuitable for wheelchair users. Please contact the Box Office if you believe access may be a problem. The performance will be of two hours duration with a continuous performance. No dogs will be allowed on site for this event.

Description

Join us in this swashbuckling adventure, where our heroic, chivalrous swordsmen fight for justice.

East 15’s productions are adapted for and created by the company. This ensemble spirit is a crucial part of our ethos on the BA ACTING at East 15 Acting School. Now part of the University of Essex, East 15 was founded over 60 years ago by Maggie Bury to train actors in the tradition of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop Company at the Theatre Royal Stratford, London.   

In 2024 we are delighted to bring you The Three Musketeers in which our actors, who have been training together for the last 2 years, use all their individual and collaborative company skills to present thrilling and original productions. This will be the first public performance for the current second year students and look at Dumas’s’ work with a fresh mind! The Copped Hall bar will be available for refreshments Early booking is recommended.

This is a ticket only event.  Tickets must be purchased in advance and are available until 10pm the previous day.

Event Queries?

Please contact the Box office on Tel No. 07749 3979 32 or email: tickets@coppedhalltrust.org.uk

Buy Tickets

Tickets can be purchased on line: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/coppedhallevents . View the event, pay and print your tickets. Both debit and credit cards may be used.

If you are having problems with buying tickets via Ticketsource, please contact our Box Office on 07749 397932. Alternatively, you may email the Box Office on tickets@coppedhalltrust.org.uk.

We recommend tickets are bought in advance. Payment can be made “On the Door” on the day but will attract the higher price per person.

 

 

About Copped Hall

The saving of Copped Hall has been described a number times as a miracle. In reality, it was achieved by a great deal of hard work against overwhelming odds.

Historic country houses in their parkland are one of the great cultural achievements of previous centuries. Very sadly by the 1950s, historic mansions like Copped Hall were being demolished at a rate of one every two and a half days. With their loss the centrepiece and purpose of the gardens, ancillary buildings and parkland was removed. Often all of these parts were destroyed. In the 1980s the planning authorities acted to preserve the excellent established qualities of Copped Hall and its surroundings by making them into a conservation area in 1984. English Heritage followed by listing the older parkland as Grade II*. After much campaigning the Conservators of Epping Forest (The City of London) purchased the freehold of the parkland in order to preserve and restore it. The specially formed Copped Hall Trust eventually purchased the mansion, stables and gardens in 1995.

The Conservators are committed to the restoration of the parkland, the reintroduction of animals and to the preservation of this important wildlife habitat.

In 1999 the Trust acquired the completely derelict Walled Kitchen Garden, one of the largest in Essex. After 13 years, all the undergrowth has been cleared from the garden and the glasshouses. This work has been largely carried out by volunteers. The garden is now mainly planted with produce sold locally and to visitors. One glasshouse has been restored with two others under way.

The Copped Hall Trust has made substantial progress in the last 17 years. The Racquets Court and the stables have been largely restored, together with other service buildings. Much work has been carried out clearing the gardens of non-original vegetation. Replacement trees have been planted and lawns re-seeded. Internally, the mansion is to be restored to its 1750s’ form, and since 2001 some of the roof and floor structures have been reinstated and essential structural repairs carried out. Since 1998 the Trust has been supported in its work by a Friends organisation which now has more than 1,000 members. From these members a very committed band of volunteers assists with all aspects of the project.